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Louise Southam

Leadership Facilitator and Executive Coach

Louise is an executive coach and leadership specialist with 25+ years’ experience. She creates transformational shifts through coaching and high-impact programmes, helping leaders and teams unlock potential, build presence, and lead with clarity, courage, and purpose.

Louise Southam

With over 25 years’ experience in corporate and global environments, across leadership, executive coaching and team development.  She is known for creating transformational shifts – whether that’s supporting senior leaders through powerful 1:1 coaching, or designing high-impact programmes around influence, inclusion, motivation, and communication. She helps people lead with clarity, courage and purpose.

Louise brings a unique blend of warmth, challenge, and lived leadership. Having built and led her own teams, she now works with organisations to strengthen leadership presence, purpose, and people-focused performance. Whether developing leadership capability, shifting management cultures through “Coaching with Impact,” or guiding teams through behavioural change, she helps leaders and teams unlock their deeper potential.

Experience

  • Designing and delivering multi-module leadership and coaching programmes that embed culture change and build sustainable capability
  • Creating practical “Manager as Coach” and “Coaching with Impact” programmes to develop emotionally intelligent leaders
  • Supporting women in leadership through initiatives that build voice, visibility, and value
  • Pioneering wellbeing and mindset-focused programmes, including menopause empowerment
  • Partnering with senior leaders through executive coaching to unlock presence and performance
  • One of the global programmes Louise has designed and implemented is in its 4th year of delivery & has impacted more than 3,000 people.

Training / Qualifications / Professional memberships

  • Over 20 years in corporate and global organisations, leading strategies and managing teams
  • Diploma in Executive and Personal Coaching, The Coaching Academy
  • Certified NLP Master Trainer
  • Accredited Partner: Clarity4D personality profiling, DISC & Social Styles
  • Accredited Partner: Motivational Maps & MOJO
  • Licensed Practitioner: Neuro-Agility Brain Profiling.

True leadership begins with courageous self-awareness — Louise empowers others to lead with integrity, connection, and emotional truth, unlocking their fullest potential.”

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