Louise is an innovative consultant and researcher with a strong focus on building healthy, sustainable communities, working extensively across community settings to integrate healthy built and social environments for chronic disease prevention and health promotion including physical activity, walkability, shaded and healthy spaces. Louise is proud author of multiple books, a regular speaker at local and global events and serves on several boards including Heart Foundation's Queensland Advisory Board, a voluntary advisor to Queensland Walks, International Union for Health Promotion and Education, Australian Health Promotion Association and WHO's civil society working group for non-communicable disease prevention. She is also the chief 'dots connector' of a thriving group of not-for-profit organisations - all in the name of working together for healthy, connected thriving communities.

I’ve enjoyed 40 years’ experience in ‘leisure management’ having started out as ‘Lifeguard’. Senior leadership roles include Commercial Director and Group Operations Director for Everyone Active, Managing Director for mission-led charity Active Nation and Chief Operating Officer for Places Leisure. I’m currently CEO at Stockport Active CIC, an NED at ActiveXchange, and a Board Advisor to the Longevity Network. I’m a Fellow of CIMSPA and have developed and deliver a Transformational Leadership Programme for the active well-being sector. I believe that people make the world go round and am passionate about the impact that sport and physical activity can have on population health. In a nutshell, I’m persuasive and challenging of convention and always with a dollop of good humour.