Louise Wash

Louise Wash

Consultant Manager

About Louise

Louise is an experienced HRIS Consultant and Consultant Manager who brings strong change management and senior stakeholder engagement skills to every HR technology project.

A CIPD-qualified HR professional, she spent more than a decade at New Look in a range of operational, project and change roles, including leading People Operations and supporting major HR and Payroll transformation work.

At Silver Cloud, Louise is known for her clear, calm approach to guiding organisations through system selection, implementation and go-live. She works closely with senior leaders to help them understand the value of HR and Payroll change, building solid business cases and ensuring projects are aligned to wider business needs.

Her ability to communicate openly and work across different teams means she can bring people together early, which helps create genuine buy-in. Louise has extensive experience supporting organisations through complex change, particularly within retail environments where multisite operations and varied workforces make communication and readiness essential.

She is practical, collaborative and focused on making sure teams feel prepared and supported, especially when navigating new systems or rethinking long-standing ways of working.

Clients appreciate Louise’s straightforward style, her problem-solving mindset and the confidence she brings to challenging situations.

Key Skills & Specialisms
  • HR operations & process improvement
  • Retail industry
  • Time & attendance
  • Business analysis
  • Vendor management
  • Change management & stakeholder engagement
  • Excellent communication and people skills
Relevant Qualifications
  • CIPD Level 3 qualified
  • Bookkeeping qualifications
Recent Client History
  • Roadchef 
  • Snowfox 
  • Royal British Legion 
  • Soho 
  • Eficode 
  • Synthomer 
  • Womble Bond Dickinson 
  • Withers 
  • Urban 
  • ICBC Standard Bank 
  • IQ Students 
More About Louise

Originally from Nottingham, Louise now lives with her family and dog on the Dorset coast, where they enjoy beach walks together at all times of year, enjoying all the seasons! Her guilty pleasure is weekends away with friends where they do very little, other than eat and laugh.

Louise loves travelling and hopes to get more opportunity to travel as her children grow up, with the hope to show them her favourite places in Greece, Italy, New York and exploring even further!

"Be prepared to resource projects to get the most benefit - and be prepared to resource a new system beyond implementation. A new system isn't a magic fix for HR & Payroll challenges - the way it is implemented really does matter, and the way it is maintained is super important."
Louise

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