Louise Woolfenden

Louise Woolfenden is a learning and culture leader with over 20 years’ experience supporting organisations to build capability, engage their people and drive performance. She works closely with senior leaders to align development and culture with commercial priorities, ensuring it is embedded in how the business operates rather than treated as a separate activity. Her focus is on practical, applied approaches that move beyond traditional training, making development part of the day-to-day. She has extensive experience designing programmes and initiatives that strengthen leadership capability, support progression and build high-performing teams at scale. Louise is particularly interested in how learning functions stay relevant in fast-paced, client-facing and highly regulated professional services environments, and how insight translates into action that resonates with leaders. She is known for her straightforward, commercially grounded approach and her focus on what works in practice.