Steph is the Director of Acquisitions, Sales and Partnerships and is responsible for overseeing one of the sector’s largest acquisitions, transferring 1,567 properties from Midland Heart to Housing 21 in 2024. Acquisitions is an area where we continue to focus to support our growth strategy.

Steph joined Housing 21 two years earlier. She leads the National Sales Team, which achieves an average of 200 new home sales and resales across Retirement Living and Extra Care every year. She also leads on partnership work to explore and deliver new housing options through the cohousing model, including our first cohousing scheme, Rupali Court in Birmingham.

Originally a business graduate, Steph started her career in banking 25 years ago, working in commercial lending before moving onto B2B marketing. She has gained over 20 years’ experience in housing, regeneration and economic growth through local government roles. 

She also has extensive experience of working in partnership to secure external funding through public-private sector collaboration delivering regeneration projects. Steph led on carbon reduction for British Gas for several years, delivering large scale retrofit projects across a national footprint.

Steph served as a Non-Executive Board Member and Committee chair for Cobalt Homes in Liverpool in the community where she grew up.     

Outside of work Steph dedicated to her family, with two children and two dogs. She is an active volunteer as a member of the school PFA and a parent liaison for her son’s grass roots football team.