Zohra Chiheb – Head of Development at Camden Council and Camden Living
Lisa has worked with us as facilitator of the Camley Street Steering Group since 2020, helping us raise the bar in community engagement and consultation. Camley Street is a flagship Council project, delivering over 400 homes (50% genuinely affordable) and 300k sqft of commercial space through a development agreement with third-party partners.
Lisa thoroughly understands regeneration and is far more than an off-the-shelf facilitator. She understands different consultant roles, and can bring different contributors seamlessly into sessions. She balances council and community member priorities, and enables respectful discussion, helping temper the loudest voices so that they feel respected and other quieter contributors are heard. Feedback from sessions is really valuable and has formed the basis of the site objectives and shaped the emerging design. Show More
Emily Read – Assistant Director Brent Cross, LB Barnet; former Tottenham Hale Lead, LB Haringey
Lisa worked with us over two years to steer the award-winning co-design of Down Lane Park, Tottenham Hale. As a highly skilled partner and facilitator she supported all sides of the process – as a trusted advocate of our community participants, a champion of those whose voices were less loud, and a critical friend to the Council’s project team. The result we reached would not have been possible without Lisa’s expert support and I wouldn’t hesitate to work with her again.
David Lunts – Chair, Latimer by Clarion; former OPDC Chief Executive & GLA Executive Director; Future of London co-founder
Lisa is one extraordinarily motivated, focussed and energetic individual. She has massive talents as a thinker, doer and motivator that make her a stand-out leader of teams, projects and partnerships. Lisa and her team ran our OPDC staff strategy day and they were amazing. The preparation was thorough, the organisation was first-rate and the facilitation on the day was excellent. Feedback from colleagues has been a unanimous and enthusiastic thumbs up and we will definitely be using Coherent Cities again. Show More
Lorraine Gilbert – Head of Resident Engagement, Notting Hill Genesis
Lisa provided us with an outstanding tailored department away day from start to finish. She worked diligently with our senior management team to create an activity programme that was engaging, creative, developmental and fun for everyone. Her planning and delivery reflected our department’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and resident satisfaction, which resulted in everyone actively engaging, from Officer to Director level. We would welcome working with Lisa again.
Suzi Lawrence – Head of Talent, Hawthorn; former Director of Client Services, London Communications Agency
We got some really tangible things from yesterday’s LCA diversity & inclusion workshops that we want to use – and we’ve started conversations today around involving different people in different teams. Lisa has been spot on working with the LCA team in terms of how to talk to them and get the most out of all of them – so thank you. I have really enjoyed it and know others have too.
Nnenna Urum-Eke – Assistant Director, Strategic Housing Delivery, LB Lewisham
Lisa Taylor gets cities and the people who shape them. Always able to create opportunities and guide you to solutions, she is the fairy godmother… that every urban policy/built environment professional needs.
David Joyce – LB Tower Hamlets Housing & Regeneration Director; former LB Haringey Regeneration Director, LB Camden Planning Director
Lisa provided an excellent facilitation approach for Camden’s Business Board Away Day. She brought great energy, enthusiasm and strategic perspective to an important set of discussions around priorities for Camden businesses over the next year [including] how Business Board members can use their collective lobbying power to achieve shared priorities… She is particularly adept at ensuring that all stakeholders get to have a say and she is excellent at timing provocations to ensure that alternative perspectives are heard and considered. Lisa’s energy and approach ensured that the Camden Business Board is in great shape for the year ahead with a clear programme and set of priorities.
Dave Hill – Writer/Editor, OnLondon
Lisa’s energy and enthusiasm for helping others work out the best ways for London to improve as it grows are a huge asset to a city where creative approaches to the tensions between continuity and change often seem in short supply.
Simon Day – Creative Director, D3 Ltd (Land Rover G4 Challenge)
On the most recent programme Lisa ran for me, she was partly tasked with approaching and negotiating with foreign governments and in-country agencies in order to gain high-level permissions for our programme to run. This role is not anything that can be left to chance, so requires high levels of planning, translation of critical documents, a full understanding of political and corporate structures and most critically, a balance of when to speak and when to listen and learn. This is an environment where things seldom flow smoothly, so adaptability, quick recovery and the ability to view things from the reverse angle are skills that can turn ‘dead-end negotiations’ into successful ones. Lisa was irrepressible at this, and to her credit succeeded in attaining high-level agreements in Russia, Mongolia and China.
Karen Coshof – Executive Producer, Global Warming, the Signs & the Science (PBS)
I’ve worked with Lisa on a variety of projects. All I can say is “wow” – this is the most consummate professional project manager/ communicator I’ve worked with. She has an innate ability to interact seamlessly with all levels of an organization – from front-line workers to CEO. She quickly understands the issues and complexities of any given challenge and can solve virtually any problem thrown at her, fast. Lisa is also a gifted writer, who can make the dullest, most complicated issue interesting and – more to the point – understandable. She’s fast, brilliant, and funny – hire her.