Loves to cook. Knows all the right ingredients for great communication.
Ruta Skelton
Ruta Skelton is a senior communication professional, with extensive experience in benefits and compensation communication. After working as a journalist and corporate communicator, she joined Hewitt Associates in 1986 to start up the firm’s communication consulting business in Canada. She designed and implemented the communication of a flexible benefits plan for American Express – the first large company in Canada to introduce such a plan. While at Hewitt, Ruta wrote portions of and edited the Canadian Handbook of Flexible Benefits, published in 1990.
Ruta continued to be a frequent author and speaker on benefits and compensation communication when she became the Canadian communication practice leader for Towers Perrin. She also taught the benefits communication course for the CEBS (Certified Employee Benefits Specialist) program at Toronto’s Humber College and revised the CEBS communication module for Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Prior to joining ROI, Ruta led the communication practice in the Bay Area for Mercer HR.
Ruta is a past chairman of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and the winner of international awards for communication excellence, including those for benefits and compensation communication.