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Lou Booth is a Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher in training, an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Executive-qualified coach, and a facilitator of workshops for business owners and organisational away days. She is deeply committed to personal and professional wellbeing and is also trained as a Mental Health First Aid Advocate for the workplace.

Lou offers mindful self-leadership and compassion coaching, informed by her Master’s degree in Mindfulness at the University of Aberdeen, where she specialised in compassion in leadership. During her postgraduate research, she developed a coaching methodology focused on teaching self-compassion to men. This work also shaped her approach to supporting women through one-to-one coaching and small women’s compassionate leadership circles, creating reflective spaces where individuals and groups can meet challenge with greater awareness, kindness, and steadiness.

Lou brings her academic training into her teaching, coaching, and facilitation in practical, embodied ways. As an ILM coach, she integrates professional coaching standards with mindfulness and compassion practices, offering support that is reflective, relational, and relevant to everyday life and work. She is known for creating environments where people feel safe to explore their experience honestly, while also being gently and appropriately challenged.

Lou’s ongoing MSC teacher training continues to inform and gently nourish her work with individuals and teams, supporting compassionate leadership thinking and enhancing workplace wellbeing. She brings a grounded, caring presence to her work and is committed to ongoing learning, supervision, and personal practice, in alignment with the values and integrity of the MSC programme.

“Lou’s approach to mindful compassion coaching is carefully tailored when working with diverse teams, helping to drive cultural change, strengthen strategic thinking, and enhance workplace wellbeing. Lou brings warmth, clarity and depth to everything she does. She creates spaces where people feel both supported and appropriately challenged. She is genuinely something special, and I would recommend her without hesitation.”

– Dawn CEO PHAB

“Working with Lou helped me step out of autopilot and into a more present, compassionate way of leading.”

– Jason Management Consultant