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What Will You Regret?

What about if this was it - you had reached the end of the journey...What would you regret? For me it was not doing the Inca Trail in Peru. That realisation changed my whole life...

Professional Bio

Louise Le Gat is an Experienced Facilitator, Transformation Coach, and Creator of the ‘Positive Energy Leaders’ Transformation Journey. She helps leaders who are at a pivotal moment in their careers create inspiring, meaningful work that has a real impact.

Drawing from her own personal journey and her 18 years’ experience in leadership, career and talent development, Louise has supported over a thousand professionals in their quest for more fulfilling careers and empowering leadership. This has included those from corporate clients like Nestle, Nespresso, and Adobe. Her first career was as a lawyer in the City of London.

She is a partner of the Accelerate 2030 program, working alongside the United Nations and The Impact Hub, supporting social entrepreneurs. She is a regular Coach and Facilitator on Leadership Acceleration Programmes for high potential corporate leaders and internal change agents. She has been a Member of the Faculty of the Geneva Hub Academy for Intrapreneurs and Summerpreneur Programme. She is also a Facilitator on ‘The Effective Advising in Peacebuilding Contexts’ Programme, run by Interpeace and sponsored by the Swiss Government, for experts advising on rebuilding following violent conflicts.

She is a Certified NLP Practitioner, Master Practitioner and NLP Coach. An Accredited Holistic Therapist, she holds a Certificate in Counselling from the CPCAB (based on the Ravenscroft Approach To Psycho-Spiritual Integration). She is also an Accredited ‘Psychotherapeutically Trained’ Mediator and has completed the Penn LPS Foundations of Positive Psychology. Since becoming a Coach in 2001, her passion has always been Transformation Coaching - at a time when there wasn't yet a name for it.

She has written 10 ebooks and led ongoing trainings on topics ranging from stress and energy management, to fulfilling your potential, building your confidence and navigating your relationships at work.

She was recognised through the ICF Prism Award for outstanding coaching.

She has spoken at the WIN Conference for female leaders on ‘Evolving The World Being You', at the Good Festival on ‘A New Approach To Creating Meaningful Work’, at IMD on 'The Positive Energy Leader' and at the Global Fund on ‘Saving The World Without Burning Out’.

Louise spends her time between the beautiful Swiss Alps and the South of France. She is bilingual English/French. She leads journeys and retreats for leaders who have lost their way and are looking to step into impact-driven careers and create businesses that make a positive difference.

At My Pivotal Moment...

At my career pivotal moment, I was a successful lawyer in the City of London. I thought I had made it. I had ticked all the right boxes of success.

I had the great career, the very nice salary, the lovely apartment, the right lawyer boyfriend. I should have felt happy and fulfilled. But I wasn’t. Underneath it all I had this nagging feeling that something was missing. I just couldn’t work out what it was.

I wondered whether I should change law firms - maybe to somewhere less high profile where I could have more work life balance. I felt lost, confused and so I did nothing - hoping the feeling would go away.

Little did I know that I was at a pivotal moment - that this was my wake up call. That I was being asked to take a hard look at my life and what I was doing with it. And that however much I tried to avoid it, it would eventually catch up with me.

The Wake Up Call

On 10th December 1999, my life changed. I found myself in the hospital as a result of an infection I caught in the operating theatre. I was pumped for weeks on end with IV antibiotics.

They got the infection under control, but I was left in constant pain, only able to stay awake 3 hours a day and hardly able to walk. After trying to re-operate with no success, the doctors announced they didn’t think I would ever get better. I was 26 years old and it looked like I would be disabled for life.

I remember laying there in bed staring at the white wall crying. Feeling like my life had just ended. And this question came into my mind. ‘If this is truly it, what will I regret?’

It stopped me in my tracks. I thought that what I would regret would be not becoming a partner in the law firm I had been working for day and night. But that wasn't it. It wasn't doing the Inca Trail in Peru.

Answering The Call

I set off on a quest to 'live with no regrets'. First stop - try to find my life purpose and create meaningful work. More generally looking for what I was meant to be doing with my life. And that is what I have been doing for the last 18 years.

Since then, I have done many of the things we do when we are at a pivotal moment. I learnt to meditate, did a career change, took a sabbatical, set up my own business, did the whole ‘laptop lifestyle thing’ between London and San Francisco, went to India (of course!), lived in a ski resort in the French Alps, helped set up a social enterprise, and relocated to Switzerland.

What I have learnt from my 18 years experiment is this...

The key is alignment - being aligned to yourself.

Purpose is not a destination it is a way of life.

It is not simply about the external stuff or even just following passion. It is about touching the world with your unique presence. Starting with understanding who you actually are.

A pivotal moment is a call to reconnect, show up and step up to a new level.

It is not an easy journey, but it is so worthwhile.

What Will You Regret?

Professional Bio

At My Pivotal Moment...

The Wake Up Call

Answering The Call

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