Building leadership momentum to realise your people potential for optimum performance and impact
Purpose-led leadership and business performance consulting and coaching to enable your organisational strategy through and with your people
Creating a great workplace helps you attract top talent, stay ahead of your competition and bridge the gap between average and awesome performance.
Because as a leader, you know your most valuable resource is your people. By investing in your team, you’ll grow a great business and harness the richness of their talent and experience.
To create this environment, exceptional leadership is a must. There is a strong need in modern workplaces for authentic, inclusive and engaging leadership.
That’s where I come in.
As a business transformation consultant, I work with CEOs, Executive Leaders, and Heads of People and Culture (HR) within small and medium businesses to help them grow a workplace culture where employees connect with people, ideas and opportunities. I do this by partnering with you to inspire and develop great leaders.
Leadership and business performance transformation coaching and advice
There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach here at With Verve. Instead you’ll get a fit for purpose approach allowing you to integrate people, culture and change into your organisation strategy. It’s all about taking the time to truly understand your business, your challenges and your opportunities.
Partnership
Strategic transformational business partnership provides you with the advice and support you need to effectively integrate people and culture into your business strategy and tactical planning to accelerate results.
Coaching
Coaching enables your people to own your strategy, effectively lead change, realise their performance potential and deliver an abundance of value into the future.
Programs, Workshops and Speaking
Designing and facilitating bespoke programs and workshops enables you to address your unique organisational needs. To develop leadership team effectiveness, strategic business plans and plans for transformational change engagement.
Creating inspired, capable leaders for today and tomorrow
Bringing verve to everything I do, I bring the formidable combination of exceptional capability together with personality to breathe life into your organisation and leave you better off for having worked with me. By injecting energy, passion and smarts into our partnership, I’ll ensure you lead not just yourself, but your team, organisation and community too.
Hi, I’m Louise
Unlocker of potential. Leadership developer. Business transformer. Culture creator. Capability development content designer and facilitator. And founder of With Verve.
Verve reflects my philosophy and approach to life, both personally and professionally. Because I’m known for my vibrant, energetic approach to everything I put my mind to…not to mention my laugh can be heard a mile away! I’m a dynamic business leader and certified organisational coach who brings over 18 years’ experience in senior people and culture strategic business partnership and transformation leadership roles. Consulting with small to medium organisations, I help sustainably transform your operating models, organisational design, leadership and culture.
Leading Self
Helping you to know and be your true self. Recognising your unique talents, value, strengths and development opportunities.
Leading Team
Helping you get into your people’s shoes, to identify the mindsets and capabilities needed for them to succeed. And equipping you to develop them through empowering collaborative leadership.
Leading Organisation
Partnering with you to translate your business strategy into something meaningful for, and achievable through, your people.
Leading Community
Providing practical tools and enabling a united approach to shaping our future leaders, impacting the world through education.
Check out my most recent articles on the blog

You can’t hide it even if you think you can
You can’t hide it even if you think you can. I’m talking about stress.
We all experience it at times. And it’s often amplified in the role of CEO or Executive Leader as you take on a great deal of complexity, challenge and responsibility.

Do I really need to be involved in that?
A 2006 Harvard Business School study observed how 27 CEOs used their time over a 13 week period. The study found that 72% of CEOs’ work time was spent in meetings with only just over half of those initiated by the CEOs themselves.

Are you really up for this?
Well that’s a question we both need to answer if we’re going to work together!
‘So who do you work with, Louise?’ is something I’ve been asked a bit lately. So I thought it was about time to cut to the chase.
Don’t take my word for it.
Hear from leaders who have transformed their workplace
An excellent facilitator who prompts deep thinking - Louise very quickly grasped the challenges and opportunities we faced strategically and operationally as an Executive team and skilfully encouraged reflection and change
Unlike many other leadership coaches, Louise did not approach our requirements with a 'cookie cutter' program and instead created a bespoke program that was completely fit for purpose
I engaged Louise to develop a leadership capability framework and new HR Operating model for Maxeon Solar Technologies. Louise quickly built relationships across the HR team, to understand their current state and challenges, and brought outside-in perspective to help shape the future state and vision for the HR function. She has the ability to provide thoughtful feedback and constructive advice in a direct, but effective way. I would thoroughly recommend Louise to any organization needing thought leadership in organizational development and capability.
Louise was engaged to support our strategic capability planning and I was delighted to see how quickly she articulated the deliverables we were looking for and demonstrated her understanding of the unique needs of our organisation. I can personally recommend engaging her services and won’t hesitate to contact her in the future, should I require any additional support.
Louise's understanding of leadership theory and organisational culture is outstanding - she understands the various challenges faced by schools and she brings a contagious enthusiasm and energy to the table.
Louise is a real find - someone with key strategic organisational development and Exec coaching skills plus a practical and pragmatic approach.
Louise has a knack for quickly building rapport and connecting the dots within a team and organisation - she is incredibly skilled at drawing out the conversations needed to play to our strengths and lean into challenges