Lisa is committed to ensuring that children and young people experience safety, so they are empowered to engage fully in the world around them. Having championed the rights of children and young people throughout her career, Lisa is driven by an ethos of social justice and working in rights-based frameworks. Lisa is passionate about creating organisations and service delivery models that put children and young people at the centre of everything they do.

Expertise

Lisa has worked in the human services sector for 30 years, designing, delivering and leading services and organisations that provide services to children, young people, their families and communities.

Lisa is deeply experienced in a range of environments including children’s and youth services, recreation and out of home care. She has worked at all levels of child facing agencies, from grass roots service delivery to Senior Executive and Board roles.

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Lisa is experienced in end-to end safeguarding, from leading organisational responses to incidents to embedding a safeguarding culture and framework across organisations. She is a strong advocate for the criticality of strong culture and good governance in child safety.

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Lisa was a key leader in successfully rebuilding child safety frameworks, systems, processes and culture in an organisation highlighted in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and has undertaken several speaking engagements both locally and abroad on this experience and how other organisations may use learning from this to build safe environments for children.