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Lisa Strutt

Lisa has a portfolio career as a coach, consultant and entrepreneur. She’s coached senior leaders, entrepreneurs, career transitioners and returners with one thing in common: they seek to achieve more of what they want in their life without sacrificing the things that truly matter. Her career spans 24 years in the private, public and non-profit sectors across 5 countries. With early roles in training, learning and development, she became a specialist in building collaborative partnerships. She’s led innovative multi-agency initiatives encompassing regeneration, child poverty, employment, education, mental health and e-safety. Upon returning to NI in 2015 and until 2019, she ran the coaching and training consultancy: Asentiv™ - enabling business leaders to mobilise their strategic network and grow their business. In 2019 she co-founded Career Reboot: a company dedicated to bridging the talent gap by tapping into the returners’ market.

She holds a MA Hons in German and European History, a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA). She’s a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, an alumna of the Boston College Carroll School of Management, a member of Harvard’s Institute of Coaching (Affiliate) and an ICF accredited coach.

She’s the current Chair of Lean In Belfast: a non-profit, volunteer-led organisation which helps women achieve their ambitions and create a more equal world; the co-founder of “Fun, Food and Philanthropy”, a giving circle for girls and women in NI and a champion for NIPanC – Northern Ireland Pancreatic Cancer group.