Louisa Clarke - Leadership Coach
My career started in the Royal Air Force, where I proudly served for a decade and learned to thrive in a male-dominated work environment. In 2004 I received a commendation for my service on that year’s honour's list for outstanding professionalism, sterling efforts, and devotion to duty.
After leaving the military, I started a role as a Contracts Manager at a multi-million-pound facilities company. I didn’t keep that role for long. Determined to succeed, I worked my way up to become the first female operational director and then managing director of the company within a short couple of years.
I was nominated for multiple awards, including winning the ‘ex-forces in business’ Business Leader of the Year 2022. The personal breakthroughs I had during that time felt like the biggest accomplishment though. To thrive in the highly competitive, male-dominated environment I worked in, I had to develop a strong ‘can do’ attitude, learn to push through obstacles, and start to fully believe in myself. The most important lesson I learned was that to get to the top, I had to stop waiting for other people’s permission to be a leader.
Leadership Coaching
One Feather Approach to Leadership Coaching
Leadership Coaching can be an incredibly powerful development tool, helping individuals to identify their strengths while also acknowledging their areas of development.
I work with individuals to address any issues they feel may be holding them back from reaching their potential – helping the coachee to put into place mechanisms to help them operate more effectively. Coaching can help you further your career by becoming a better leader.
Through expert guidance and support, a professional business coach can help you unlock your emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, and resilience.
Why? So, you can lead from the front and be a source of real inspiration to those around you.
- Understand your individual leadership style, strengths, and weaknesses
- Overcome limiting beliefs and learn to maximise those around you
- Get proven strategies to boost your career trajectory through leadership, good leaders are always in high demand.
With the right skillset, the sky truly is the limit when it comes to career trajectory and salary progression. My coaching practice is a safe place to unpack what is holding you back, develop a leadership style that is guided by your values, and create the success they know you deserve.
I believe it’s time to smash the glass ceiling once and for all. I see a future with diversity, greater opportunities, balance, and fresh perspectives at all levels. I want to see my clients go after their dreams, challenge the status quo, and become powerful leaders and agents of change.
Confidentiality, trust, and integrity are the foundation for every coaching session we have together and form the values my business is built on.
Ex-Military Coaching
Having served for ten years in the Royal Air Force, career transitioning into a successful civilian role, I utilise my experiences and coaching frameworks to coach and empower veterans to achieve success at home and work following their service career.
Career Development Coaching
Covering all aspects of a career transition, from assessments, to marketing oneself for career success with well-written impactful CV's and LinkedIn profiles. I can help with interview skills, and the development of an "elevator" pitch.
Leadership Coaching
Help veterans who may be feeling stuck and not progressing in their current jobs, and newly hired veteran employees in their transition from military to corporate culture.
Life Coaching
Coach veterans to balance their work and personal lives, Improve communication with loved ones through teaching active listening techniques and the development of emotional intelligence skills.
Louisa has helped me to develop in such a short period. I'm an an over thinker and that has often prevented me from grasping opportunities. By talking, it helps me to rationalise. She pushes me to think about why I feel or act a certain way and poses questions which make me see the broader picture.
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