Louise Marra

Senior Associate

Louise Marra is from the Ngai Tuhoe Maori tribe in Aotearoa New Zealand and also from several Celtic ancestral rivers – Scottish, Irish, English.  She describes herself as a braided river.

 She is an author, movement maker and systems healer.  Her leadership experience has spanned all sectors having held senior leadership and governance roles within Government, private sector, philanthropy and NGO sector.   

She has studied for many years individual, transpersonal, somatic and collective and intergenerational trauma and how these might be applied to healing systems.  

Louise’s passion and purpose is to help build the next era of conscious leaders, innovators, activists and organisations robust enough to enable radical innovation for an emergent, healing and evolutionary approach to personaland systemic change.    Her approach is around building collective, connected, and grounded relational fields of high coherence to enable healing.

She is the author and founder of the social enterprise ReRoot,  founder of Unity House , co-founder of the Pakeha Project and an associate of the Centre for Social Impact.