INCLUSIVITY & DIVERSITY

Louise works as a consultant, offering advice on a variety of topics including effective teamwork, time management, resilience, disability, diversity and inclusion. In the past she has worked with disability organisations, and with companies to ensure their premises are set up to provide appropriate accessibility requirements and needs for disabled customers and employees.

As a motivational speaker, she has a huge range of experience of presenting at a range of events, of any size, and can easily tailor her talks and sessions to suit any audience, ensuring she incorporates key messages. Louise can share her journey, speaking honestly about mental health and overcoming barriers means she can talk about EDI from a very personal perspective.

She is passionate about inclusive language being used correctly and believes everyone has the ability to achieve with the right attitude and work ethic. Also, Louise can talk about diversity and inclusion in sports and in the workplace.

FASHION – MODELLING

Louise has modelled during London Fashion week, at the London Represents and London Organic fashion show. 

London Organic is a fashion & beauty house celebrating the best of London Fashion. Their core values are Inclusivity & Diversity making exclusive fashion events accessible and making high-quality organic Beauty available.

Panel Hosting

Louise’s extensive experience in public speaking and working with people has seen her undertake the role of panel hosting at different events, such as London Fashion week. In this role, Louise undertakes the responsibility of facilitating discussion to industry experts, ensuring key messages and the specific topics/interests of the audience are highlighted during discussions. 

Building Bridges

Louise can deliver bespoke inclusivity workshops to highlight the benefits of hiring staff with disabilities and other protective characteristics alongside HR expert, Rachel Weaven.

Although inclusivity has been high on most company’s HR agenda in recent years, the language is always evolving, the way people live and identify is evolving, and companies need to be mindful of keeping up with what is a huge and ever-changing area.

These workshops aim to help people understand the benefits of hiring people with ‘protected characteristics’ – such as age, disability, religion – and what they can do to support them and help them to access opportunities.

Rachel and Louise take a proactive approach to inclusivity, focusing on more than the legislation, and are really passionate about promoting the benefits of inclusivity in a fun and engaging way. Rachel has a history working in HR for different companies, she likes to make it cooler and less stigmatised for them to understand the benefits of hiring people with protected characteristics. For Her to combine her skills with Louise just made sense as they both have equal passion to help people embrace others for their different characteristics which, they believe, actually will make them powerful and valuable employees.

Rachel brings her HR experience while Louise brings her lived experiences of disability and the stigma around it to these consultations and workshops. They can talk about disability and the reasonable adjustments that need to be made, and why it’s not something to worry about. Often the most simple changes can support a disabled employee to do their job with excellence. 

Rachel and Louise guarantee to provide a safe space, an environment where people can ask questions that they may normally be afraid of or discuss concerns around these areas. The main mission of these workshops is to demonstrate why hiring people with protected characteristics will make a positive impact to any business and why they don’t need to fear it.

SERVICES

Louise is a motivational speaker and athlete mentor with extensive experience in speaking at various events, ranging from small groups and schools to large-scale business and charity events. She has worked with diverse audience across numerous venues, enabling her to customize her talks and sessions to meet the specific needs of any occasion. Louise is skilled in delivering presentations and engaging workshops, ensuring her audience benefits from her insightful and adaptable approach.

Commentary and Presenting

Louise has commentated and presented at many high profile events. From The Championships at Wimbledon to the Paralympic Games, Louise offers her experienced perspective and expertise to help educate and inform audiences from around the world who are tuning in.

Schools and Mentoring

Louise became an athlete mentor for the Youth Sport Trust in 2015 becoming a part of the team, made up of past and present athletes who have all competed at an elite level within their chosen sport. The athlete mentors provide insights into their successes and challenges in their lives, inspiring young people with their stories about how sport has helped them in their career and on their personal journey.

Louise is part of a team that has extensive experience of engaging with young people in the capacity of mentor and role model to create aspiration and provide support for young people to achieve their personal best in sport or life. Louise can attend your school on a one off or regular basis to give talks and host classroom and/or practical sessions to help motivate and inspire young people to reach their potential!

Consulting

With an experienced and unique perspective, Louise can offer advice on a variety of topics. Louise has worked with disability organisations in the past and helped them develop and change the lives of many disabled people across the country.

She can also offer support and advice to ensure that businesses are set up to provide the appropriate accessibility requirements and needs of disabled customers and employees.

Louise also works closely with several charities in a variety of roles. As well as previously being sponsored by Get Kids Going she is also an Ambassador for the charity and has been from a young age. Louise is also an ambassador for Wiltshire Air Ambulance, a cause very close to her heart.

Motivational Speaking

Louise is an accomplished motivational speaker and has vast experience in speaking at many different types of events, from small groups, to schools to business/charity events with hundreds of people. Louise has worked with a wide variety of people at many different venues and can tailor talks and sessions to suit any occasion or event.

Louise offers a unique and personal insight into her life and experiences; Including disability, breaking down barriers, balancing education/work with sport, diversities and challenges, as well as how she made the important decision to pursue her dreams to become a Paralympic athlete. Louise will also discuss sporting experiences, highs and lows, the importance in planning for success, forward thinking and inspiring people to follow their dreams and ambitions. Louise also has extensive experience within the media, from presenting to starring in a variety of documentaries and short videos.