Dr Louie Gardiner, PhD, MBA, BA (hons), FRSA, Master Coach, Acc. Supervisor. Organisational learning, development & participation consultancy grounded in multi-sector practice, post-graduate & doctoral research. Author. Poet. Presence in Action founder. Facilitator. Playful Provocateur.Louie's pioneering, metalogically coherent approaches are at the forefront of the training she delivers with Potent 6, PIA Collective CIC; & the EMCC & ICF accredited Coaching Supervision training, alongside Jo Birch in Crucial Difference.Louie has been involved in liberating human potential for 30+ years. She is a passionate, bold, wholehearted practitioner, at ease with uncertainty & complexity. Her approaches are born of an enduring commitment to consciously & creatively act for the wellbeing of all, safeguarding her own trustworthiness in whatever she does. Presence in Action and Symmathesic Agency are at the heart all she offers. This living~learning body of work represents the fusion of a lifetime of real-world personal & professional practice with robust academic research. Embodying principles of natural inclusion, complexity thinking & primal animation, Louie brings radically different ways of catalysing & nurturing capacities for generative change.As a facilitator, she is adept at enabling dialogue and generative partnering amongst diverse communities, sectors & disciplines. She works 1-1; with groups; & designs organisation-wide & multi-sector leadership & change programmes that span complex professional & community contexts. She also supports the trust-building & reconciliation work of Initiatives of Change – an NGO of changemakers spanning the globe.Louie has written in academic & practice-based journals e.g. Human Arenas, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, e-O&P Journal, Coaching Today, the3rdi magazine. For book chapters: The Collaboratory (2015), Coaching Supervision: Advancing Practice, Changing Landscapes (2019) and Coaching Supervision Groups: Resourcing Practitioners (2022). A signed copy of her poetry book Attending, Responding, Becoming: An anthology of surprises beyond intention or design (2021) is £30 available direct from Louie's website.Associate roles: The OCM, ASKFormerly: Faculty Board Member, Hull University Business School; Chief Executive, Centell; Trustee, The Hunger Project UK; visiting lecturer Sheffield Hallam, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Roffey Part Institute.Key Qualifications:PhD, Supervisor (CSTD London), MBA (Distinction), Master Accred. Coach, HSD Professional, BA Hons