Organisational culture & workplace consultancy
Healthier workplace cultures. Stronger teams. Better outcomes.
Yew Thrive helps organisations understand what is getting in the way of their people, and build healthier, more human cultures and stronger teams — improving performance by helping people thrive at work.
Led personally by Louise Pramas MA, FCIPD, ILM7 — more than 18 years in senior NHS leadership, now working with organisations across the South East, London and beyond.
Does this sound familiar?
When something at work is not working, people usually feel it first.
Long before it appears in a report, people notice it in the meetings that go quiet, the conversations that get avoided and the goodwill that slowly runs out.
Good people keep leaving, and replacing them is expensive.
Teams that used to work well together have stopped communicating.
Conflict is quietly consuming leadership and HR time.
A significant change is not landing the way it was meant to.
Engagement survey results are worse than anyone expected.
Leadership behaviours feel inconsistent from team to team.
Cliques are getting in the way, or parts of the workforce feel excluded.
The organisation is struggling to grow, innovate and adapt.
Customer, patient or service quality is slipping.
Previous culture initiatives have not created lasting change.
These problems rarely exist in isolation. Turnover, conflict, disengagement and stalled change are usually symptoms of the same thing: the everyday behaviours, relationships, systems and conversations that make up a culture. That is why fixing one symptom at a time so often fails — and why the work starts with understanding what is really happening.
How Yew Thrive helps
Four connected areas of work, one purpose: better places to work.
Organisational Culture & Change
Understand what is really happening before deciding what needs to change.
Culture diagnostics, employee experience insight and collaborative change support for organisations that want healthier, more effective ways of working together.
- Culture diagnostics and sense-making
- Employee experience and engagement insight
- Co-designed cultural vision and behaviours
- Organisational development support
Team & Leadership Development
Create the conditions for better conversations and stronger teams.
Facilitated workshops and collaborative spaces that build trust, clarity and connection, so teams leave with shared understanding and a practical way forward.
- Team development workshops and away days
- Leadership development and behaviours
- Independent, skilled facilitation
- Team effectiveness and collaboration
Executive Coaching & Growth
A calm, non-judgemental space to think clearly and move forward.
One-to-one executive and leadership coaching, group coaching and action learning set facilitation for leaders carrying complex, people-heavy work.
- Executive and leadership coaching
- Group coaching
- Action learning set facilitation
- Professional development for senior leaders
Learning & People Support
Practical capability, and steady support when things get difficult.
Bespoke eLearning and learning design, plus independent employee relations advice, workplace investigations and conflict resolution support.
- Bespoke eLearning, courses and MOOCs
- Learning design and communities of practice
- Independent employee relations advice
- Workplace investigations, mediation and conflict support
The Yew Thrive approach
Change works better when people are part of it.
The best change is done with people, not to them.
Culture change does not happen through reports alone. It happens when people are involved, heard and supported to take ownership of what needs to be different.
Yew Thrive works with people, not on people. Louise is an enabler, facilitator and expert partner rather than an outsider who arrives to fix things. Together you identify what needs to change and build the internal, sustainable capability to move forward.
Compassionate workplaces still need honest conversations, accountability and challenge. Creating space to pause and reflect is not the opposite of rigour — it is what makes rigour possible.
The aim is to leave people, teams and organisations stronger, clearer and more confident than before — with capability that stays after the work ends.
Who you will work with
Experience you can trust. An approach that feels human.
Yew Thrive is led personally by Louise Pramas MA, FCIPD, ILM7. Clients work directly with Louise — there is no team of associates behind the scenes.
- 18+ years
- Senior leadership in the NHS in England
- 6,000+
- Learners reached worldwide through eLearning she designed
- National
- Contribution to NHS workforce and culture policy
Louise spent more than 18 years in senior NHS leadership, specialising in organisational development, staff experience, positive people management and culture transformation. Most recently, she worked nationally at NHS England supporting organisations and Integrated Care Systems through evidence-based culture change.
Today, she brings that experience to organisations of all sizes across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
In their words
Safe enough for honest conversations. Structured enough to make progress.
“Louise handled a sensitive and emotional day with care and compassion. A huge thank you for creating such a safe space for reflection.”
“My expectations were exceeded. I was worried it could feel out of control, but it all felt very supported and structured in a good way.”
“The day remained engaging and genuinely interesting throughout, and hit the right balance between team development and work.”
“Calm, astute and empathetic style. Empathic and compassionate listener who created a space where I felt comfortable to open up.”
“Louise excelled at building relationship. Open, honest communication and positive throughout.”
“I have been very impressed by Louise and would recommend her to anyone.”
Why Yew Thrive?
Growth that renews itself.
Yew Thrive began beneath an ancient yew tree at Kingley Vale, near Chichester. As yew trees grow older and heavier, their branches reach down and touch the ground — and where they touch, new trees rise. Generation after generation, around the original tree.
It is a useful picture of the kind of change that lasts: adaptive, connected and able to renew itself without constant outside help. And there is a play on words in there too. Yew Thrive is ultimately about you thriving — in your work, your leadership, your team and your future.
Based in West Sussex. Working across the South East, London and beyond.
Yew Thrive is an organisational culture and people consultancy founded by Louise Pramas. Louise supports organisations across the South East, London and beyond, with coaching, facilitation, consultancy and learning support available in person, remotely or in a blended way.
Let's talk
You don't need to have the answer before starting the conversation.
Tell Louise a little about what's happening and what you'd like to be different. If Yew Thrive isn't the right fit, she'll say so.