Ruth Oseme — known to her clients and community as Resourceful Ruth, is a British-Nigerian entrepreneur, keynote speaker and business consultant helping founders, women in business, and childcare providers build enterprises that are both purposeful and profitable.
With over two decades of building and leading businesses across two continents, Ruth brings lived experience to every room she enters, combining practical business insight, strategic leadership and purpose-driven impact.
Her entrepreneurial journey has not followed a straight line. It has been shaped by bold pivots, relentless resourcefulness, faith-led vision and the courage to build what she believed was needed, often before the path was clear.
From acquiring and transforming nursery settings across the UK, to building a specialist virtual assistant agency, to founding an international school in Nigeria, Ruth brings lived experience to every room she enters. With over two decades of building and leading businesses across two continents, and having spoken to audiences at BALM 2026, African Business Association (ABA) and RCCG conferences across the UK and Nigeria, she does not simply speak about strategy, leadership and growth, she has built businesses, led teams, navigated complexity and turned ideas into operational reality.
Ruth leads New Beginnings Day Nurseries across Yorkshire and Staffordshire, founded Resourceful Virtual Assistants; a specialist VA agency placing sector-trained assistants with UK childcare businesses and established Lilyrose International School in Lagos, Nigeria, delivering the British National Curriculum to young learners.
Each venture is a living example of her philosophy: identify the need, build the solution, and raise the standard.
“I don’t just build businesses — I build systems, teams, and legacies. My goal is always the same: to leave every room, every organisation, and every person I touch in a stronger position than I found them.” - Ruth Oseme (Founder)
Ruth brings together lived business experience, strategic thinking, and practical support across speaking, coaching, and consultancy.
Ruth is a dynamic keynote speaker who has graced platforms across the UK and internationally, including CLIMB25 for the African Business Association Yorkshire. Her talks blend raw personal story with actionable strategy, leaving audiences informed, inspired, and ready to act. She speaks on entrepreneurship, childcare leadership, women in business, and building with faith.
Ruth coaches ambitious entrepreneurs and business owners who are ready to go from overwhelmed to organised, from idea to income, and from founder to true CEO. Her coaching is rooted in her own lived experience of running multiple businesses simultaneously, practical, direct, and deeply grounded in real-world accountability.
With a proven track record across childcare, property, staffing, and international education, Ruth brings sharp strategic thinking to complex operational challenges. She works with business owners on compliance, systems design, team development, and scaling, particularly within the early years and childcare sector where her expertise is unmatched.
Ruth’s work spans childcare, business support, education, and property, with each venture built to solve real problems, create stronger systems, and leave a lasting impact.
A growing nursery group across Yorkshire and Staffordshire, focused on operational excellence, staff development, and outstanding early years education.
A specialist agency placing sector-trained virtual assistants with UK childcare businesses.
A British National Curriculum school in Lagos, Nigeria, serving young learners across West Africa.
A property company supporting the long-term asset strategy of the childcare group.
Beyond business, Ruth is passionate about faith, family, community and legacy. As an active member of the RCCG community, serving as Trustee and in pastoral care; she leads from a place of conviction, service and purpose. Her faith shapes the way she builds, leads and serves with integrity, generosity and a deep commitment to creating impact beyond profit.
Through Foundations by Resourceful Ruth, her parenting platform, Ruth creates space for honest, practical and values-led conversations about raising children in today’s world by exploring identity, discipline, digital influence, emotional wellbeing, education, faith, culture and confidence
The platform reflects her belief that strong families, intentional parenting and grounded values are not a backdrop to success but that they are its very foundation.
For Ruth, business is not simply about profit. It is a platform for empowerment, service and community transformation. Her leadership is shaped by the belief that when people are equipped, encouraged and given access to opportunity, families are strengthened, communities are lifted and future generations are given permission to dream bigger.
Whether she is speaking on stage, coaching a founder, advising a nursery owner, supporting parents or building within her own enterprises, Ruth’s message is consistent: build with purpose, lead with wisdom, stay resourceful and create a legacy that opens doors for others.
Childcare Leadership
Keynote Speaker
Business Consultancy
Women in Business
Faith-Led Leadership
Multi-Venture Entrepreneur
Community Impact
Parenting & Family
Nigerian Diaspora
Early Years Specialist
Ruth helps business owners move from overwhelm to organised growth through practical strategy, stronger systems, and real-world accountability.
Helping childcare providers, women entrepreneurs, and business owners build clearer, stronger, and more profitable businesses.
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