Lisa Cherry (UK)

Dr Lisa Cherry is the Director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd., leading a dynamic and creative organisation that provides a ‘one-stop’ approach to delivering on research, consultancy, learning, and development. Lisa is an author, researcher, leading international trainer, and consultant, specialising in assisting schools, services, and systems to create systemic change in the way we work with those experiencing and living with the legacy of trauma. Lisa has been working in and around the field of Education and Children’s Services for over 30 years and combines academic knowledge and research with professional expertise and personal experience. Lisa has worked extensively with social workers, educators, probation workers, and those in Adult Services, training and speaking to over 30,000 people around the world, including in the US, Australia, Pakistan, and across the whole of the UK.

Lisa has produced multiple pieces of research for various settings and her own MA research looked at the impact on education and employment for care-experienced adults who experienced school exclusion as children in the 1970s and 1980s. In February 2024, Lisa completed her DPhil research in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. The research asked, “How do care-experienced adults who were also excluded from school make sense of belonging?”

Lisa is the author of the hugely successful and award-winning book ‘Conversations that make a difference for Children and Young People’ (2021) and ‘The Brightness of Stars’ (3rd Edition published in June 2022). A new book contract has been signed for publication in 2024/2025 on cultivating belonging.