About Lara
I am dedicated to empowering teams and individuals to achieve their potential in the workplace through tailored coaching. I focus on providing you and your teams with the tools to create lasting change, while actively supporting your ability to reach your full potential by providing the skills, knowledge, and confidence you need.
I can help you identify areas where you can improve, set ambitious but realistic goals, and develop the strategies you need to meet them.
Along the way, we will build your confidence and enable you to flourish.
I am a certified coach committed to helping people grow and supporting them to be the best version of themselves. My extensive leadership and engagement experience brings added value to sessions with clients.
My coaching approach is built on a foundation of trust, authenticity, collaboration, and connection.
About Lara
Before becoming a coach, I worked in the police service for over 17 years and held the rank of Chief Inspector. As a senior police officer, I was responsible for engaging with many different audiences. It was important to me that communities felt listened to and that they could trust me to take the issues impacting them seriously and make steps towards improvement.
Amongst other things, I was responsible for supporting communities following serious crime and national incidents and working with those affected by stop and search, knife violence, gun, and gang crime.
This experience gave me a real passion and understanding for building trust, collaboration, and community. This led me to lead engagement with MPs and their staff in the Members’ and Members Staff Services Team (MMSST) in the House of Commons.
I focused on creating a feeling of inclusion within the Parliamentary community, particularly for MPs’ staff by connecting Westminster and the constituency. I was responsible for fostering collaboration and connection amongst many different groups within Parliament and for spearheading the introduction of reforms that improved the working condition of MPs’ staff. I was also responsible for introducing a weekly engagement forum for senior MPs staff and working collaboratively with the House of Commons Library to introduce the MPs’ Caseworkers’ Forum, delivering regional roadshows in the constituency, and running the first fair dedicated exclusively to MPs’ staff.
Most recently Lara worked for IPSA (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority) as a Stakeholder Engagement Lead.