You need a Career Audit.
You don’t need a career change.
Because you’re not actually lost.
You’re just misaligned — and ready to stop settling.
The Career Clarity
Audit is your free guide to:
✅ Get radically honest about what’s no longer working
✅ Reconnect with what truly energises and fulfils you
✅ Uncover your next aligned move — without starting over
This isn’t a job board scroll.It’s a pause. A pivot.
A permission slip to choose differently.
I’m not just a coach with credentials, I’m someone who’s lived this journey. I know what it feels like to have a “good job” that drains your energy. To feel the pressure to stay put because it's safe, while quietly burning out inside. I’ve been there.
After 13 years in leadership and HR in the public sector, I hit a wall. Despite the promotions and the packed-out calendar, I knew something had to change. So I did the work and now I help other women do the same.
Over the past decade, I’ve supported hundreds of women to completely transform their careers and reclaim their lives, whether that means a promotion, a pivot, a new business, or a total reinvention.
I bring:
A background in strategic HR, leadership and coaching
A master’s level qualification in Executive Coaching & Mentoring (ILM7)
Accreditation as an HR professional (CIPD) and licensed Firework™ Career Coach
A sharp strategic mind, deep empathy, and coaching that’s grounded, intuitive, and results-driven
Clients say I’m the one who “pulls all their scattered ideas together and shows them what’s actually possible.”
They joke I’m psychic but really, I just see people.
I built this programme to give you what I wish I had: a clear, empowering, step-by-step path out of the stuckness and into something real.
Something meaningful.
Something Authentically You.
meet your coach:
lou villar pardo,
the authentically you coach

Download the free audit now and start moving toward work that feels like home.
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