Louise Brooke-Smith

Louise Brooke-Smith is a development and strategic planning consultant and a built environment non-executive director.

Louise Brooke-Smith: It's the name of the game

25.11.2020

Louise Brooke-Smith

Louise Brooke-Smith | motivation | Professional Development | UK | wellbeing

Record Breakers was a fabulous TV programme when I was growing up, writes Louise Brooke-Smith. The sheer infectious energy that Roy Castle brought to millions of viewers from the early 1970s...
Louise Brooke-Smith: Supporting at a time of change

26.10.2020

Louise Brooke-Smith

covid-19 | Health | mentoring | Professional Development | UK | wellbeing

Many of us are sometimes asked to support or mentor someone. It could be a student deciding on a particular direction or sector to follow, or a graduate hoping to land their first real job.
The generation game

01.09.2020

Louise Brooke-Smith

covid-19 | Economic Growth | employment | Professional Development | study | UK | university | workplace

It’s years since I last took an exam but there is still a tinge of panic in early summer when the smell of the grass or an annoying wasp brings back memories of sitting in the local park and revising....
What's happening downtown?

29.07.2020

Louise Brooke-Smith

Housing | Policy & Politics | Public Realm | UK

I realise that I am prone to referencing song lyrics in my writing, writes Louise Brooke-Smith. Whether it’s embedding the words of St David of Bowie in speeches or hiding poignant Leonard Cohen...
Diverse thinking and a dash of realism

26.06.2020

Louise Brooke-Smith

Coronavirus | covid-19 | Housing | Policy & Politics | public health | Public Realm | UK | wellbeing

If we logged on to every Zoom meeting, Teams gathering, legal seminar or virtual conference bombarding our inboxes, I don’t think we would have got much sleep over the past three months.

Louise Brooke-Smith

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