About Collaborate

Collaborate means working together to achieve your goals and more

We work with organisations who

Are passionate about their business and those who work within them

See people as fundamental to all aspects of their business and are willing to invest in recruiting, developing, engaging and retaining individuals

Want to develop, grow and thrive, maximising individual, team and organisational potential

Collaborate

Our Values

Passionate

We are passionate about our business and will be passionate about yours.

Imaginative

We offer imaginative fit for purpose solutions, challenging the status quo.

Inquisitive

Our intellectually inquisitive style enables us to understand your organisation and requirements.

Visionary

We see the bigger picture and develop it into workable solutions.

Time to Collaborate

Time to grow and time to change?
Time to Collaborate.

Mum of one very active daughter who swims competitively, Louisa can often be found sitting by a pool most evenings. Married to Lee and when not at a swimming pool, the family enjoy holidays in France and a long-walks in the Lancashire countryside.

Louisa Scanlan

Director of Collaborate Business Solutions Limited louisa.scanlan@collaboratebusinesssolutions.co.uk 01200 420881

Louisa Scanlan, owner and Director of Collaborate Business Solutions brings over 25 years HR and training experience, from FTSE 100 organisations to SME’s. Delivering tailored solutions to a variety of business sectors and organisations of all sizes.

Meet the team

The Associates

Nicola Jones

For over twenty years Nicola has helped people at different stages of their careers to
embrace learning which transforms their day-to-day working activities. She is an expert in the
design and delivery of experiential learning, e-learning, work-based learning, virtual
classroom and is a qualified and experienced executive coach. Her learning programmes
have earned national and international awards.

Nicola’s approach is warm and friendly. Her professional experience enables her to step into a more authoritative tone if necessary, although usually not for long. She believes that people are resourceful and have positive intentions. Most of all she believes that learning should be accessible and enjoyable if it is going to stand a chance of changing individual practice.

Shona Marshall

Shona Marshall has over 20 years corporate experience in delivering learning & talent development solutions. Her versatile style, confidence and infectious enthusiasm enables her to adapt to a wide spectrum of working environments. She contributes best when her blend of people development expertise, creative thinking and drive for results directly impacts on business success. She has gained a reputation for having an inquisitive yet challenging approach and utilise the resulting insights to design inspiring solutions which are fit for purpose, address organisational challenges and deliver results.

She has a natural ability to build and maintain strong relationships, acting as a trust partner and consultant to key stakeholders. Her natural coaching style enables her to take a refreshingly straight forward approach to gain buy-in to interventions that drives an uplift in individual performance and delivers business results.

Jane Hirst

Jane Hirst is an engaging and all-encompassing facilitator as well as a pragmatic and results oriented coach. She has been in the business of developing people for more than 30 years and gets a real buzz from enabling people to become more self-aware, develop their emotional intelligence and achieve better results in both their personal and professional lives.

Jane’s passion has always been in creating amazing cultures that bring out the best in people. Her work role models an engaging and pragmatic leadership style and it is evident through the feedback she receives that it really does make a difference!

We provide bespoke solutions at each of the people-tiers of an organisation.

Team

Individual

Organisational

We use the Lumina suite of psychometrics, as well as specialist HR knowledge and experience, to kick start growth, change and development. We work with organisations to build empowered teams, with values-driven cultures.

Through Lumina Spark, Lumina Select, Lumina Emotion and Lumina Sales, we can drive enhance conversations and levels of connection throughout the business.

Whether you are a start-up, a scale-up, a professional organisation looking to support and engage key team members, or an owner/director, keen to invest in your personal development, we can help.

Please get in touch for an obligation-free chat about your needs or to find out more about our bespoke consultancy, coaching and training programmes.