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“I help leaders and professionals slow down, feel calmer, reflect and ground to lead with clarity, courage, confidence – without burning out.”
I assist leaders and professionals in slowing down. I support them in feeling calmer and in reconnecting with what matters. This helps them lead with clarity, courage, and confidence. They do this without burning out.
By putting your oxygen mask on first, everything begins to shift. You build resilience, deepen self awareness, and strengthen the emotional intelligence needed to lead well. From this more grounded place, you are better able to make thoughtful decisions. You can navigate challenges with ease. This lets you lead well and create workplaces where people and businesses flourish together.
At elementas, I bring together leadership coaching. I combine mindful compassion with business consultancy. This approach feels human, practical, and sustainable. My work is rooted in lived experience, professional practice, and research. It offers a holistic approach to well-being at work. This approach supports both personal growth and business success.
You can work with me through 1:1 leadership coaching. You also have options such as the Men’s Compassionate Leadership Coaching Programmes or Women’s leadership circle. Alternatively, you can engage with me through consultancy to support well-being, culture, and compassionate leadership in your organisation.
Whether you are seeking steadiness, fresh perspective, or meaningful change, this is a space to pause. Here, you can reflect and lead in a way that feels more like you.
Lou Booth
Founder, elementas
Why elementas
elementas offers a calm and holistic approach to leadership and well-being. It supports you to bring together all the elements of your life and work. This way, you can thrive, not just keep going.
My work weaves together mindful compassion, leadership coaching, and business consultancy to support sustainable success for individuals, teams, and organisations. This approach helps nurture mental, emotional, and physical well-being within the reality of working life.
You can develop practical tools through executive coaching and my Mindful Self Leadership Framework. These tools help you manage pressure and reduce stress. You will feel more grounded in how you live and lead. As clarity grows, so too do confidence, resilience, and compassion.
How I can Support You:
I help you care for your mental, emotional, and physical well-being in the context of real working life. This support ensures emotional intelligence, resilience, and clarity grow naturally.
Through executive coaching or my Mindful Self-Leadership Framework, you’ll develop practical tools to manage pressure and stress. You will feel more grounded and confident. You will also lead with greater awareness and compassion.
This is leadership that feels sustainable and human. It creates healthier workplaces. People feel valued, supported, and better equipped to flourish.
Women’s Leadership Circles Courses and Coaching:
Women who long for a more reflective and supported way to lead will find my small group leadership circles beneficial. These circles offer a nurturing space to connect with like-minded professionals. They allow you to explore shared experiences and grow in confidence together. In these circles, we gently explore the Yin and Yang of compassionate leadership. We bring together tenderness, courage, values, and self-awareness to help you lead with greater clarity and authenticity. Alongside peer support and coaching, you will gain practical tools. These tools, along with reflective practices and grounded techniques, can strengthen your working life. They also bring fresh energy to your life as a whole.
Next circle “Bloom From Within Group” gathers in May 2026. Apply Now:
Women’s Self-Leadership Compassionate Coaching Circle (limited places). Circles run seasonally Spring, Autumn and Winter in tune with the elements and your needs.
1:1 Leadership & Wellness Coaching:
elementas personalised coaching helps leaders and professionals cultivate mindful compassion. Lou is a men’s health advocate. Her master’s research focused on compassionate leadership coaching for men in business; for better health and resilience outcomes. This coaching fosters personal awareness and presence and help people ground and stay presented and connected in complex environments. The result is more clarity, balance and effectiveness in demanding leadership and executive roles.
Trust, difference, and perspective shift
“You listen deeply and create a relaxed space. Your approach is different — non-traditional — and it helped me think differently. As a result, I’ve genuinely changed how I lead.”– Dave Murray, Vice President, GCP Technologies, American Express
Jeremy Pilgrim Spatial Estates Data Specialist Working with Schools
“I really enjoyed working with Lou and her techniques for unravelling the priorities in my head and making it all seem so clear. Seeing the light through the everyday fog is enlightening and essential. Still don’t know how she does it, but love that she can!”
When leaders prioritise their own well-being, they naturally foster healthier workplaces. These workplaces are more compassionate. They are also higher-performing. In these environments, people feel safe, valued, and motivated.
Natural and sustainable productivity is to follow. Are you a conscious leader who is open to mindfulness? If so, explore men’s self-leadership, compassionate coaching or consider mindful executive coaching.
1:1 Well Workplace Consultancy & Workshops:
At elementas, I help leaders, business owners, and professionals create calmer, healthier, and more resilient ways of working. I support people to manage stress. They learn to lead with clarity, courage, and care. I help create workplaces where well-being and effective business go hand in hand. As a Mental Health First Aid Advocate, I have a grounded understanding of emotional well-being’s importance at work. As a Men’s health champion, I bring compassionate insight into it.
“Lou is not only an expert in her field, but also an exceptional coach and presenter. Her approach is carefully tailored when working with diverse teams, helping to drive cultural change, strengthen strategic thinking, and enhance workplace wellbeing. I have worked with Lou for several years and have seen firsthand the positive transformations she brings to both individuals and teams. She’s genuinely something special. I would recommend her without hesitation — 100%.”
Dawn Vickers CEO Phab
My approach is born out of years of my own work experience in private and public sectors. Be that in manufacturing, marketing, cultural, education or volunteering overseas and study. My intention is to support leaders and teams to create cultures where people feel safe, heard, and supported. Mental health is valued as an essential part of sustainable performance and healthy workplace relationships.
I engage in pragmatic and strategic conversations with leaders and managers of SME’s (see more) I organize practical workshops and away day sessions, providing research-informed consultancy.
These efforts support the development of compassionate workplace cultures. In these cultures, mental and emotional well-being are valued, and voices are heard. Trust can grow, and people feel supported, clear, connected, and resilient.
My work strengthens people, teams, and organisations in practical ways. It also does so in meaningful ways. This occurs whether your focus is psychological safety, emotional well-being, men’s wellness, or healthier team culture. When leaders prioritise wellness, they create the conditions for compassionate and courageous workplaces. These workplaces are high performing and allow people and businesses to flourish together.
Working together, you can:
Lead with clarity, confidence, and compassion
Manage stress more effectively
Feel calmer and more resilient
Model healthy leadership and well-being
Create workplaces where people can flourish
Your Mind, Your Calm – Ready to Flourish?
Book Your Free Discovery Call with Lou Booth. Explore how mindful, compassionate leadership can transform your work, life, and well-being. See More Well Workplace Consultancy Services.
What Clients Say..
Presence, calm, and lasting change
“Lou helped me step out of autopilot and into a more present, compassionate way of leading. Six months on, the tools are still transforming my leadership and my life. These practices aren’t ideas — they’re part of how I live now.”–
Jason, Senior Business Leader More Testimonials (link)
Well Workplace Consultancy:
Well Workplaces. Create a thriving workplace culture. Interactive workshops & one-to-one coaching designed to boost wellbeing, resilience & performance.
Lou Booth
Lou Booth owner and founder of elementas coaching offers a different different kind of coaching, to ignite your passion and tap into your inner wisdom to live well- in work, life and play!
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