Leadership coaching, keynote speaking & workshops
(Because your work won't speak for itself)
Louise Thompson
Executive Coach,
Keynote Speaker, Facilitator on
Women in Leadership
You did what you were told. Be helpful, work hard, never say no. And now you're the most capable person in the room, but NOT the one people turn to as a strategic advisor. (And you're buried in busyness...)
That's not a confidence problem. It's positioning.
I'm a former board-level Director of Communications. For years I thought I was struggling with confidence. I wasn't. It was conditioning, the kind that teaches capable, expert women to be useful rather than visible, and to accept that most corporate cultures weren't built for women to lead in.
Now I help senior women change that through coaching, and I work with organisations to spot the same patterns, so their female leaders can thrive.
Clients include Google, NHS, Lloyds Bank, Activision, Charlotte Tilbury and more globally.
Let's get to work.
Speaking
Keynote speaking on women in leadership and the role that gendered conditioning plays in keeping our most talented female leaders from reaching their full potential. (It's a culture and conditioning problem, not a "female" problem.)
Ideal for conferences, executive offsites, leadership programmes and women's corporate networks.
Workshops
Masterclasses and workshops for leadership teams and women's networks.
As a former Board-level Director of Communications, I run strategic, pragmatic workshops on topics including:
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Leadership communication
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Executive presence
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Leading change
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Achieving the shift from "doer" to "leader"
How we can work together
As a former board director, I know this terrain
I spent more than 20 years as a Director of Communications, much of it at board level, in the NHS and the private sector.
I know what it takes to lead at that level, and I know how easily capable women get stuck just below it, doing the work, holding it all together, waiting to be seen, recognised and valued.
I also know it doesn't have to stay that way. Coaching was part of how I made the shift myself, from someone who delivered quietly to someone who led effectively and confidently. Now I do that work with senior women who are ready for the same shift (and i work with organisations who are ready to enable their brilliant female leaders.)