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1. Face Forward: Transforming Pain into Purpose

How to move through adversity, reclaim your power, and turn what you’ve been through into the thing that
propels you forward.

Built around three pillars — Acknowledge. Accept. Surrender. — this talk dismantles the myth of the quick comeback and offers something better: a real, honest framework for moving through pain without bypassing it.

Audiences leave knowing the difference between performing recovery and actually moving through it — and with practical tools for doing the latter.

Ideal for: teams, organisations, or events where people are navigating change, challenge, or significant transition.

2. The Power of Reframing: Aligning Mindset, Emotion and Action

The words you use to describe your life are not just
descriptions — they are instructions. To your nervous
system. To the people around you. To the version of
yourself you’re in the process of becoming.

This talk explores the neuroscience and practice of reframing — not as toxic positivity, but as one of the most powerful tools available for changing outcomes. (cont....)

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WHAT I SPEAK ABOUT

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Louise breaks it down into three levels — situational,
identity, and meaning — and shows how to align mindset,
emotion, and action so that change becomes momentum,
not will power.

Ideal for: leaders, professionals, and anyone who wants to shift perspective but needs the how, not just the inspiration.

3. Own the Room -“If I didn’t need to prove myself, how would I show up today?”

Most people walk into rooms trying to earn their place.

This talk is about what becomes possible when you stop.

Real presence isn’t performance — it’s the quality of
being genuinely, fully there. And it’s a practice, not a
personality trait. Louise explores what actually gets in
the way of presence, and why so many women were
specifically taught to make themselves smaller — then
delivers a practical toolkit for showing up with
conviction, in any room that matters.

Ideal for: women’s leadership events, conferences, professional development programmes.

4. The Identity Shift: A guide to embracing the constant changes to who we are and what we want at any given time.

We think of identity as something fixed — a self we build, protect, and defend. But the truth is, identity is something that happens to us, over and over again.

With a mother, without a mother. Living in London, living in LA. Beautiful one day, disfigured the next. A toddler, a teenager. Married, then divorced. Our identities are forever shifting — and the quality of our lives depends not on stopping that process, but on how we meet it.

This talk moves audiences from resistance to acceptance, from acceptance to embrace — and finally, to finding genuine delight in the many people they are becoming.

Ideal for: audiences navigating life transitions, personal or professional reinvention, or the quiet grief of becoming someone new.

STAGES AND MEDIA

STAGE

TEDx - Moving Beyond the Monster to my Purpose - Cincinnati Women 2021

Gente Nueve Young Adult Conference - Pueblo, Mexico - Main Speaker

The Mortgage Broker Annual Conference - Brisbane, Australia - Keynote Speaker

Celebrity Guest Speaker - Holland America Cruise

Annual Nurses Conference - Keynote Speaker

Ameriface Annual Conference - Keynote Speaker and Workshop Coordinator - Las Vegas, Nevada

Operation of Hope fundraising event - Main Speaker - Portland

High School Graduation Gala - Main Speaker - Anaheim, California

Spokesperson and Co-Founder Facing Forward Organization

MEDIA

Featured in and on TV, Radio, Online, Podcasts and Print

BRING LOUISE TO YOUR STAGE

For Speaking or any other inquiries contact: Louise@Louiseashby.com

TEDx Cincinnati Women

"Moving Beyond The Monster To My Purpose"
Facing Forward Launch, Hosted By Myself and Minnie Driver at the Burberry Beverly Hills Store!
Sustainable & Resilient Design
The Annual Facing Forward Gala. This particular year we actioned a surgical package for a child, each package was $25,000. Three well known actors with huge hearts, Geena Davis, Sharon Stone and David Boreanaz did so and changed three lives.
Materials & Craftsmanship

Rebuilding isn't starting over. It's starting wiser.

For 24 years I've been telling the same story from different rooms. The headline keeps changing. The work doesn't. If you're booking a speaker for women, leadership, resilience, identity, or comeback narratives — I'd like to be in the room.