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.