Louise Jackson is an executive coach, consultant, and facilitator with more than 17 years of experience leading organizational transformation inside Fortune 500 companies. She brings authenticity, positive energy, and a strong orientation toward action to every engagement, and she is known for her ability to align corporate values with culture, drive business transformation, and develop leaders at every level.
Facilitation holds a special place in Louise’s work. She gravitates toward it because it allows her to lead with expertise while creating the psychological safety that produces real growth and connection. She lights up when she sees people engaged, learning, and reaching their goals.
Louise has worked with Fortune 500 organizations across manufacturing, healthcare, and technology, including Roche and Salesforce, leading high-visibility strategic initiatives in organizations with more than 90,000 employees.
Louise began her career in asset management and project leadership at Roche, where she spent nearly 12 years moving from project management into human resources consulting. She led local and global teams of 40 or more stakeholders across all phases of the project lifecycle, championed a content management overhaul that reduced development time by 40 percent, and built hiring and talent strategies across multiple business divisions.
Her work at Salesforce has included coaching senior and executive vice presidents leading global teams, leveraging AI-generated insights to surface skills gaps and development needs, and helping shape programs reaching more than 79,000 employees. Through her consulting practice, she leads strategic planning processes with executive leadership teams, designs custom learning experiences, conducts culture evaluations, and partners with organizations on succession planning, compensation, and talent development. She also serves as a professor at Dakota Wesleyan University, teaching corporate vision and strategic leadership to graduate students in leadership roles.
Louise holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Technology with a minor in Business from Purdue University. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation and holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from PMI.
Authentic, engaging, reflective, and action oriented
Tech, healthcare, manufacturing, education, retail, and nonprofits.
I work to uncover ‘the why’ behind the request for the session and learning outcomes the client desires to ensure the content and session structure are relevant. I perform research to learn the organization’s values, vision, and culture. This helps me determine what relevant scenarios the training should address.
Training generally fails anytime it’s a one-and-done experience.
As a facilitator, I work to provide resources and a plan that can be leveraged after the training is over and easily carried in everyday work after the session.
I am a performer at heart. I sing professionally and host podcasts to bring the community together. I enjoy working as an executive coach where I help leaders become their best selves and mentor early-in-career talent. I also enjoy devoting a great deal of my time to community service and civic engagement.