Ruth Tongue

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Ruth is one of London’s leading nutritionist, an employee wellbeing specialist and consultant, renowned wellness speaker, health content creator, and Pilates teacher offering wellbeing retreats all over the world. 

Ruth also co-founded award-winning Elevate, a employee wellbeing provider  who specialise in creating tailored employee wellbeing programmes and strategies, advising on workplace wellness benefits, and providing workplace mental, physical, financial and emotional wellbeing training. 

As a keynote speaker, Ruth has delivered keynotes and workshops to clients such as HSBC, Just Eat, Crossrail, Amazon, the NHS, Fulham Football Club and Sportfive. Ruth runs workshops, webinars and keynote talks on topics such as ‘boosting energy and productivity with diet’, ‘eating well when working from home’, ‘debunking diet myths’, ‘lifestyle habits to reduce stress’ and ‘Optimising Women’s Health through Nutrition’. As a leading voice in employee wellbeing having worked as a specialist in this area for over 15 years, Ruth also talks on mental health, behaviour change, productivity in the workplace, and how to run a successful employee wellbeing programme.

Ruth’s no-nonsense, practical approach makes her talks engaging, motivating and educational – everyone will leave with a list of things to put into place straight away. 

Ruth’s own passion for health and fitness stems from her background in dance and movement. Having trained as a dancer for many years, she went on to study STOTT Pilates and has been teaching for 15 years. She currently teaches Pilates in London as well as running Pilates retreats in Mallorca, Spain, Sicily, the South of France, Morrocco and the UK. 

Ruth has an MSc in Nutrition from King’s College London and has been working as a nutritionist since 2006. She has worked in the corporate wellbeing industry since 2007 as well as providing nutritionist services to running clubs, professional footballers and semi-professional football clubs, children’s sports teams and clubs, and most recently acting as the nutritionist and Pilates trainer for the newly formed England Walking Football teams, and Charlton Athletic Women’s Teams. In addition to this, through her company Elevate, Ruth organised Women In Football’s first Women’s Health Summit at Craven Cottage in 2024. 

Ruth has worked as a consultant content specialist and nutritionist for many health apps including NOOM, the Nutrifix app, food and wellbeing brands and often features as an expert nutritionist for the BBC and ITV. In addition to this Ruth has many years of experience as a health journalist, regularly contributing to publications such as Top SanteRunner’s World, Women’s Running, Women’s Cycling, Women’s Fitness and Running Fitness magazines. Ruth has acted as consultant nutritionist for Clipper Teas, Sports Stylist, Oskia skincare brand as well as being an ambassador for sportswear brands Wellicious and USA Pro. Ruth worked for the Children’s Food Trust as a lead on their ‘Let’s Get Cooking’ programme for two years and has worked with other community cookery schemes as well as running her own nutrition and cookery workshops for adults and children across the UK. 

Contact Ruth’s agent: info@ttmanagement.co.uk