About tdof
We work with UK Businesses to optimise every meeting, every session, every workshop, from high stakes away-days, all hands, off-sites, to the recurring gathering, frequent calendar slots, retrospectives, agile stand ups, you name it, we know meetings!
The Department of Facilitation is your strategic facilitator for any meeting.
We know it's essential to increase your ROI in every meeting.
About Lisa
Strategic Facilitator
/ Founder
Lisa founded The Department of Facilitation with an audacious mission. In today's attention economy UK businesses must focus on meeting ROI.
The ways people and teams collaborate will make or break business-as-usual.
A Strategic Facilitator who combines facilitation best practice with deep experience of operations, governance, and leadership, Lisa makes collaboration a repeatable success driver.
They are shaping the bigger picture of how organisations use facilitation to innovate, include, and deliver.
Lisa is proud to have worked across creative and regulated UK industries from Film and TV production, to Music Publishing and Telecoms.
Lisa is someone who doesn’t just run meetings but actually designs and champions the strategy behind how collaboration happens.
A facilitator's facilitator | conference speaker and workshop lead | online virtual host | LinkedIn Top Voice for Facilitation | ally and advocate | mentor | sci fi fan
What To Expect
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Working With Us
- Reach Out: however you choose to contact us, email, web, socials, we will book a 30 minute intro call.
- Our intro Call: within 30 minutes we aim to understand what's on your mind and the scale and scope of your needs, at high level.
- We work visually with you: offline we create a first view and will share this with you to visualise all the key objectives.
- We work collaboratively with you: co-refining the key objectives and metrics, to agree the services that balance your needs, opportunites and challenges against available time and budget.
- We tailor all options to you: you receive a detailed propsal with suggested timelines and costs, so you are fully equipped to engage us on your terms.
- We always ask for testimonials: we are proud of our work and will ask you for feedback that we can share publically.
What To Expect
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Testimonials
Lisa is without doubt the best facilitator I've worked with. The pre work is exemplary in that Lisa will come brimming with ideas without imposing and then when it comes to the event itself will be fully prepared. Lisa's facilitation style is both thorough and engaging to any audience encouraging inclusivity and openness. And in terms of the post event debrief, every detail is captured ensuring you receive an incredibly comprehensive review with further post event follow up suggestions. I couldn't recommend Lisa highly enough to any individual or organisation.
Rob Stacey
Marketing & Sales Leader | MarTech Thought Leader | Start Up Advisor | Mentor and Coach
TESTIMONIALS
10 | 10
10/10 Lisa was amazing! So great at leading conversation, keeping us on track, taking notes, and highlighting important takeaways. They were also very fun :)
D. Lacovelli
10/10 Lisa was absolutely fantastic, really helped move the conversation along, and kept the atmosphere jovial.
C. Boland
10/10 Lisa was WONDERFUL at trying to capture all of our thoughts in a cohesive way.
L. Trahan
10/10 Lisa did an excellent job! They guided the conversation well alongside taking great notes as most of us were verbally brainstorming. Thank you Lisa!
V. McKenna
You absolutely nailed it, Lisa! I was expecting a very formal workshop, but you led it in a completely different and engaging way. Your creativity and innovation truly stood out and made the session so much fun. 🤩🤩
P. Sampathkumar
Refreshing | Engaged
It was one of the most energising remote sessions I've been part of. It was fun, engaging, and I valued the space to surface real challenges. For people that dialled in remotely, it was very energising and collaborative. You eased everyone into it with fun and interactive activities that got everyone involved. Checking up on everyone ensuring they were still engaged - hard to do this remotely as you can't always get a feel for peoples engagement levels.
D. Twum
A refreshing new way to conduct the workshop while making sure the agenda was delivered on point. I would look forward to more such workshops in the future. The Miro board with a theme and a central idea and how it binds well with the overall agenda of the retro workshop (takes me back to my MBA exam papers, always thematic but never losing the central idea of asking questions and seeking answers). The entire thematic delivery of the workshop. Very refreshing change from the workshops, I have attended before.
S. Chandra
Fun | Worthwhile
It was actually fun, as well as being really engaging, and best of all - it was productive and very worthwhile.
This is what I enthusiastically told my line manager 10mins after the conclusion of the workshop:
We've just come off the session facilitated by Lisa, which was attended by a good number of us across the different areas. I just wanted to say how impressed I was by the workshop, not just by Lisa's facilitation skills which are brilliant, but also by the level of engagement of the attendees and the amount of good ideas which came up. Those 2 hours produced the amount of output that I would expect from a full-day workshop. And it was facilitated fully virtually too, which shows that this format really does work from a collaboration and engagement point of view. I'd fully support another one of these sessions in a few months' time, or next Q, or as time permits. It was really worthwhile 🙂
A. Sariban
We Love A Good Challenge
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Testimonials
I recommend Lisa for their sustained contributions and leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at CityFibre. Since 2020, Lisa has served as the Lead Facilitator for our DEI membership networks, demonstrating remarkable skill in fostering inclusive and engaging environments that allow for sharing experiences, making connections, and uncovering insights on intricate DEI issues.
Lisa has supported the chairpersons for every DEI network since their inception in 2020 and has been instrumental in advancing our DEI goals, consecutively, year on year. We rely on their excellent facilitation skills; they have led numerous DEI calls, meetings, and workshops, hosted guest speakers and led virtual fireside chats on a wide range of topics, including microaggressions, Workplace Bias, gender expression, Inclusive Leadership and Belonging. They notably co-hosted a live online fireside chat and Q&A with Rene Carayol MBE (broadcaster, Executive Coach and Author) about the Power of Diversity in Leadership.
Their ability to connect with diverse groups and create a respectful space for open dialogue is outstanding.
In addition to their facilitation skills, Lisa is an influential voice within our internal DEI community. They have actively contributed to the development of our DEI strategy and are outspoken about initiatives that promote equity and inclusion across our organisation. Their dedication and passion for DEI has inspired many and significantly contributed to a more inclusive workplace culture here.
Lisa's contributions have not only enhanced our DEI efforts but have also positively impacted our overall organisational culture, as they have encouraged so many people to speak up and get involved. I wholeheartedly endorse Lisa for any role that seeks a dedicated and impactful DEI leader.
Richard Hutchinson
Strategic Talent, Resourcing & Engagement Leader | Workforce Transformation | Employer Branding | DE&I Champion | AI-Enabled Talent Solutions
