Lisa is a pioneering social entrepreneur and advocate for women’s housing, equality, and financial empowerment. She co-founded Winner, the Preston Road Women’s Centre in Hull - a nationally recognised model of community-led support for women - which has used innovative social investment to acquire more than 160 safe homes for women and children fleeing abuse, and Affordable Justice, the UK’s first non-profit family law firm for domestic abuse survivors.

Her work focuses particularly on how social investment, entrepreneurship, and long-term infrastructure development can strengthen sustainability and independence and support greater innovation across frontline services and commissioning.

Lisa sits on Better Society Capital’s Investment Committee, helping to steer £650 million of social purpose funding. She co-designed the financial model that became the blueprint for the Social and Sustainable Housing Fund and leads the Rosmerta initiative, supporting social investment into women’s organisations.

Alongside her work in the women’s sector, Lisa has spent over two decades in senior leadership within the NHS. There she pioneered the use of social outcomes contracts to commission social prescribing.

Lisa received the Third Sector Volunteer of the Year Award in recognition of her leadership and innovation, and was appointed MBE in 2024 for services to women and social investment.