Lisa joined Bestway Healthcare in June 2024 as Chief HR Officer taking on responsibility for the People function and creating and implementing the People strategy.
Lisa’s career spans almost 30 years in senior HR roles with experience across various sectors. Some of her recent roles include Group People Director with Anchor, England’s largest provider of social care and housing and Executive Director for People with AQA, the leading exam board. Before that Lisa was Head of HR for Co-op Food Group.
Lisa says she was drawn towards Bestway as it is important to her to be part of an organisation with a strong purpose with the opportunity to make a difference, “It’s vital that a People strategy truly underpins and drives the strategic imperatives of the organisation. I am very clear that strong leadership is pivotal in achieving that. Ultimately the People plan must always impact the customer positively.” Lisa strives to achieve people-centricity within a commercial context where People decisions are given the right amount of focus and consideration.
Outside of work Lisa is a school governor and is kept busy with her four children. The whole family are avid football fans and many hours are spent pitch-side either watching the kids play in local leagues or generally experiencing the ups and downs that being a Preston North End fan brings. She also enjoys property development and her biggest project to date was designing and project-managing the build of the current family home which she says was enjoyably stressful.