About Lara
Experience and Qualifications
Lara is a highly experienced and skilled leadership trainer with over 20-years of experience across a broad spectrum of wellness and training ventures and she brings a professional, passionate and vibrant energy to all her clients. Her unique approach is inspired by her boundless love and respect of our natural environment.
Together with her background as a provincial athlete and obtaining a degree in psychology, she is qualified as an NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) wellness coach and has multiple diplomas in nutritional therapy, quantum physics and therapeutic reflexology.
Having invested extensively into her personal development by training worldwide she shares this knowledge and strongly believes in encouraging people and businesses to invest in themselves.
With foresight she developed South Africa’s first private woman’s gym and was one of the first in the industry to develop innovative and unique corporate wellness programs by integrating them into the corporate culture and DNA of progressive companies.
Lara has extensive experience consulting to luxury lodges across the world, assisting them in the development of their wellness centres and spas and engaging in high level, advanced training and support for their staff. Her natural, authentic and honest approach has delivered ongoing successful results.
Lara is a member of the Global Wellness Institute and has worked with world renowned properties and corporates including Singita, Great Plains Conservation, Grootbos, Giltedge, ABSA Bank, MassMart, Spar Group and The Unlimited. She has also partnered with world-renowned establishments such as Relais and Châteux and National Geographic Unique Lodges of the World.