Laura Howard
Founder, Executive Coach & Psychologist @The Contented Workplace Company
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WORK HISTORY
Founder, Executive Coach & Psychologist @The Contented Workplace Company
Derby, GB
The Contented Workplace Company helps you be your best and bring your best to work whether a leader, employee or team.The business was born out of Laura\'s passion to create workplaces where employee motives and business outcomes exist side-by-side thus creating organisations that contribute to good employment in a socially conscious way. This work is informed via psychological evidence-based practices meaning current behavioural science guides this work.This means our values are:• Curiosity and questioning – exploring better ways for organisations to work with their people• Growth - working with teams and individuals enjoying chances to grow and develop• Knowledge - delivering current behavioural science know-how achieving better performing workplaces• Contribution - promoting teams and individuals to have a sense of meaning in their day-to-day workFor employees seeking greater satisfaction and leaders seeking better organisations, we can help with a range of common problems including:• High staff turnover• Key individuals leaving• Few or no aspiring leaders to grow internally• Dissatisfied employees give customers a poor experience• High staff absence and sickness• Low employee motivation or work engagement• Conflicting teams• Little diversity of ideas, thinking or people• Not attracting quality applicants• A dysfunctional and inharmonious place to work• Burnout, stress or poor work-life balanceWe offer flexible and bespoke services and consultancy that handle your people-centred opportunities and challenges objectively and across the board by providing dedicated solutions and programmes to improve the quality of work and create better organisational performance. We work in-depth with teams and individuals within varying projects to transform workplace behaviours and outlooks achieving a Contented Workplace.
EDUCATION
Sheffield Hallam University
Business Studies BA (Hons)
Birkbeck, University of London
MSc
ABOUT LAURA HOWARD
Want tips and advice today Are you a leader that:* Questions your leadership style* Faces fast change* Experiences burn-out* Struggles with complex teams* Has difficulty managing their time* Stalls over big decisions?Instead, you want to feel:* Calm and in control* Achieve your goals* Confident in your space* Secure in your role* Assured in front of stakeholders?Are your teams:* Stressed* Quitting* Absent* Underperforming* Demotivated* Directionless?Instead, you want them to be:* Happy at work* Contributing successfully* Motivated and engaged* Ambitious and creative* Present and thoughtful? today to find out how I help leaders and teams work work for everyone – leaders, teams and customers – is my passion and professional purpose.After a 20-year global career in the private and public sectors, including ten years as a senior leader, I wanted to help other teams and leaders be their best and bring that best to their customers. Happy employees make happy customers. Teams and leaders visibly under strain create a bumpier customer experience. That’s why it’s so important to surface hidden areas of friction and smooth them. Not only to keep and attract great customers but to make the productivity gains happy employees create.Ignite your and your team\'s performance today, saving time and money. deliver 3, 6 & 12-month workshops and coaching programmes specialising in1. Women in leadership2. New to the C-Suite positions3. Team Well-BeingWant to know more about my services, coach, Team well-being, Team effectiveness expert, Team performance coach, People performance strategist, Team growth consultant, Team performance trainer, High-performance teams’ speaker, leadership adviser, women\'s leadership speaker, coach, and trainer. Power hours, tailored stand-alone workshops and programmes of coaching and training. Talent programme development & execution. Psychological or workforce research. Interim Learning / Organisational Development Director.I work in person in the East Midlands, South Yorkshire, and remote across the UK. Flexible rates for charities and not-for-profits.
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