Louise Earnshaw is a psychologist, social entrepreneur and educator. Louise’s PhD entrepreneurship research into Chutzpah in entrepreneurs and youth at risk provided the foundations for a number of national training colleges that taught entrepreneurship to marginalised youth and communities in Australia and abroad. The work has had particular success in remote indigenous communities in the Western Australian desert. Louise won a number of government and university awards for her work. She toured her training to five countries, which included working in a Buddhist community and monastery in a remote high-altitude desert of the Indian Himalayas and in post-tsunami Sri Lanka. She also established a rural and remote social/emotional wellbeing service for the Martu people of the Western Desert, then worked on Christmas Island with asylum seekers and refugees. Louise currently works as a trauma psychologist and is launching a new project to train people seeking asylum in entrepreneurship.
