Lisa Quest

Lisa Quest is a leader who has risen through Oliver Wyman very quickly to play a senior leadership roles across our Financial Services and Private Capital practice as well as building and scaling our Government and Public institutions team . She is currently Senior Partner and Head of UK&Ireland as well as Co-Head of our Government and Public Institutions Practice – Europe.

In these roles Lisa is responsible for leading our $250m, 800 person strong UK&Ireland business and sits on our European Operating Committee and Global Leadership Council. She regularly advises senior government officials, civil servants and executives. Her impact on the business has been extensive including:

• Overseeing double-digit revenue growth for the UK&Ireland market and European Public Sector team
• Expanding Oliver Wyman's footprint to develop a scaled Public Sector and Energy business in the UK, sitting alongside exisitng footprint in FS and Aviation
• Improving our diversity at all levels, notably improving our Gender Pay Gap statistic >10points in 2024
• Introducing and scaling a secondment and government rotational programme for 10% of our consulting team
• Championing an ecosystem approach to delivery which has led to incremental >$75m successful contracts
• Achieving client satisfaction ratings that >87% of our clients rate OW work as higher than our competitors

Having founded Oliver Wyman’s European public sector practice, Lisa particularly focused on the expansion and transformation of that group. She has achieved double digit revenue growth increases yoy through her deep understanding of public institutions, and her ability to bring together diverse skills to solve complex problems. She has built out the team on the principles of gender equality, sustainable and flexible work-life balance and high-impact/results oriented delivery with roughly 50/50 gender balance at all levels (an unpredented level of diversity within advisory at senior levels). The result is the fastest revenue growing, most diverse practice in the firm.

Lisa is exceptionally inspiring to those around her due to her high caliber, empathetic manner, care for her teammates and vision. She draws talent to her team and, as a result, has created one of the highest performing, and busiest, teams in Oliver Wyman.

Lisa has a strong commitment to service, having cofounded the Green Hat Foundation (a charitable fund established to support people from disadvantaged backgrounds get back into employment) and sitting as a trustee on the board of the National Numeracy a charity focused on developing a more numerate population in the UK to improve equality. Both of these charities are focused actively supporting and promoting multiple UN SDGs for quality education, gender equality and reduced inequality. She also sits on the Board of the Canada/UK Chamber of Commerce supporting improved trade relations between Canada and the UK.

Lisa is also a mother of two to Archie (6) and Bryson (4).