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Meet Louisa

Organisational transformation specialist, founder of Collaborate, and the person behind BREAKING and STRETCH™.

My experience with work related stress taught me a lot about organisational culture, and it now drives my passion to make organisations places where people can thrive.

Louisa Scanlan is an organisational transformation specialist with over 25 years of HR experience across SME and FTSE 100 environments. Founder of Collaborate Business Solutions and creator of the trademarked BREAKING and STRETCHTM frameworks, she helps organisations move beyond transactional culture into genuinely transformational workplaces.

Louisa Scanlan
The longer version

Beyond transactional

Louisa Scanlan is Founder and Director of Collaborate Business Solutions, an organisational transformation specialist with over 25 years of HR experience spanning SME and FTSE 100 environments. In 2015 she founded Collaborate Business Solutions, a UK consultancy dedicated to creating more human workplaces through interventions that go beyond the transactional to the truly transformational.

A licensed practitioner of the Lumina Spark psychometric and the Emotional Culture Deck, Louisa brings an integrated approach to leadership development and organisational change. She is the creator of two trademarked frameworks, BREAKING and STRETCH™, developed from both professional expertise and personal experience of navigating pressure at work. Together they form the foundation of her culture change programme, Beyond Transactional.

Her consultancy has built an award winning reputation in the organisational development space.

Accredited and licensed

  • Lumina Spark practitioner
  • Emotional Culture Deck practitioner
  • Creator of BREAKING and STRETCHTM

Clients include

Arla Foods WWF UK the NHS

Recognised work

ABP Award Winner 2023 Lumina Practitioner Award 2022
Speaking

On stage

Louisa speaks on culture, boundaries and sustainable growth — warmly, practically, and without a single stock photo of a lighthouse.

Women in Business and Tech

Speaking at Karren Brady's Women in Business and Tech on boundaries, capacity and the cost of quietly carrying too much.

Business Culture Connected

"How to stretch into our next challenge without breaking" — the STRETCH talk, available to watch in full.

Reset. Grow. Thrive.

Thinking of going beyond transactional

Tell us a little about your team and we will tell you honestly whether BREAKING and STRETCHTM is the right place to start.

⚑Working with teams across the UK, in person and online

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