ALAN PEAT AFTER OVER 15-years of conducting parallel careers in business and academia, Lynn Ribton-Turner – owner of the personnel consultancy, Ribton-Turner Recruitment – has been awarded her degree of doctor of literature and philosophy in psychology from the Rand Afrikaans University. The research for her thesis explored the experiences of retrenched mid-career adults from the freight industry – a project that included what Ribton-Turner described as a number of “painful stories”. Her idea for the future is to develop an executive coaching practice, she said, which would be focused on individuals experiencing burn-out and stress. In addition, empowering executives to reach their potential and facilitate their “greatness”. Ribton-Turner also gives time to working with colleagues at a stress clinic where counselling is offered to post-operative heart attack and/or cancer patients. However, her first priority will be to promote the company’s professional services in the freight and shipping industry. Dr Lynn Ribton-Turner … focusing on individuals experiencing burn-out and stress.
