Louise Marra’s leadership experience has spanned all sectors having held senior leadership and governance roles within Government, the private sector, philanthropy and the NGO sector. She has been an advisor to the Prime Minister, co-director of a company, led a collaborative government office, has aided the set-up of social innovation labs both for the Government and for Foundation North’s Centre for Social Impact.
 

Her passion is to help build the next era of conscious leadership and conscious organisations and relationships robust enough to enable radical innovation for an emergent approach to personal, social and environmental change. She believes deep connection to our own, others, the environment and the wisdom around us in all of life, enables greater possibility for growth and transformation at all levels. Louise is Tuhoe, and deeply grounded in indigenous principles.  She runs leadership and social change programmes including being programme director for Leadership New Zealand.

She now runs her own company, Unity House and is co-director of Spirited Leadership, as part of these she has her own individual and group coaching and development practice bringing together many years of practice in meditation, mindfulness, nature based programmes and consciousness levels, yoga, qi gong, transpersonal psychology and shadow work and how these inform and work with excellence at work. She has post-graduate university qualifications in environmental management, public policy and Jungian and transpersonal psychology and is a certified coach.