Lisa Petch

Regional Manager

Lisa has been working with Keystage for over 5 years.

Lisa’s role supports all Keystage’s service operations, from service development, quality and training, through to talent attraction and retention, forging and growing partnerships and maintenance and property management. Her role provides her with a unique view of the entire business, and the opportunity every day to work alongside Keystage’s employees and the service users who live at the sites.

Throughout her working life, she has held a variety of roles across many sectors, from running a pub to working with children with learning disabilities and adults with mental health issues. She spent several years working within a committee team organising and managing charity events from Help the Heroes to Children’s Leukaemia Trust. All these gave her the skills in which to play an important role at Keystage.

Lisa was looking for a role that would marry the experience she had gained throughout her career. With a self-confessed passion for talking to people and listening to their stories (which is an ideal skill for working within this sector), Lisa says: “Every morning on my way to work, I would stop to chat to people from the homeless community, and realised I wanted to do more for them. I researched the kind of position that would adapt all my skills into one role.”  Coming across the Resettlement Coordinator job for Keystage Housing, she researched the company and was excited about the holistic person-centred approach and the autonomy to create a support planned pathway for everyone to reach their potential. She immediately applied and following the interview process, was offered the role. Within 4 months she was promoted to Service Manager for HARRP Trinity in Northampton then in 2023 moved to the Luton office in the role of Locality Manager & for the past year has been Regional Manager.

Outside of her busy role at Keystage, Lisa’s home life is equally as busy: “My personal life is full! I have 2 beautiful girls, a grandchild and a wonderful husband, not to mention a mini zoo – dogs, cats and a parrot!”

Lisa really believes that “anything is possible if we treat everyone with kindness and respect.” It’s a mantra everyone at Keystage seems to live by – and one we want to share more widely.