Strategic Consultancy for Social Housing Providers

We are a group of independent senior project & software consultants bringing decades of combined experience in a range of areas within the social housing context. We have known and worked with each other for many years in various capacities, and whilst we each have our own consultancy businesses and engage directly with clients, we also recognise that there are times when a client needs a broader set of skills. Strategic Housing Collective was born out of that demand. It enables us to provide innovative combinations of skills tailored specifically to the needs of a client, but our independence also means that we can each focus our attention on a given client when that is the right approach. Ultimately, clients get the best of both approaches and can even mix and match if so needed. Our specialisms include:

• Full lifecycle programme/project management
• Delivery Programme design & review
• Critical friend
• Systems integration
• Data migration, cleansing, etc
• Reporting
• Housing Management
• Asset Management
• Financial systems
• Business process design

WHO ARE WE

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Scott Kibby	Laura Kennard
Celestra Consulting	Central Coast Consulting
Scott has been an independent consultant to the housing and care sector for more than 10 years. Prior to this he was a Head of ICT & Performance for a Housing Association, Technical Director in an IT managed services and a period in hands on project management in between. His experience extends into financial, risk & change management and he is often to be found offering passionate advice in linking overarching business strategies to service strategies and action plans with corporate performance and risk. Scott has been involved in implementing a wide range of IT systems over many years. In fact, in the last decade, he has been involved in more than 20 Housing Management System implementations in one form or another and has been hands on through 10 go-lives as well as smaller scale interventions to unblock issues, be they people or technical or anywhere in between.	LK blurb
Liam Lindon	Ryan Keast
Bay Community Software Consulting	Keast Consultancy
Housing Management Experience Liam spent over a decade in operational housing management roles at DCH (Devon & Cornwall Housing) and Teign Housing, progressing from allocations adviser through to neighbourhood services manager. Roles included allocations (managing housing waiting lists and CBL schemes across multiple Devon local authorities), neighbourhood management (managing patches of 600-1500 homes), anti-social behaviour, estate management, and business change management during organisational restructures. Software Implementation Experience Liam joined Civica in 2018, initially as Implementation Consultant then Business Analyst, working on Civica Cx implementations for 6+ years. Module lead responsibilities included allocations, voids, CORE data collection, workflow (cases and task paths), EDM integrations, CBL integrations, and Cx mobile. Also developed expertise across the wider Cx platform. Work included delivering customer workshops and training, supporting builds and UAT, bespoke configuration, requirements documentation, supporting sales demonstrations, and working with development teams on product improvements. Following Civica, Liam worked as Product Manager at MRI Software before establishing BCS Consulting in 2025. Qualifications Chartered Institute of Housing - Level 4 Certificate in Housing Practice	Experienced data and technology specialist with a long track record in the UK Housing sector, working across programming, data analysis, BI development and implementation consultancy. I’ve supported a wide range of Housing Associations and Local Authorities, helping them get control of their data and make better use of their systems. Highly skilled in data cleansing, transformation and reporting, I now work independently as a consultant, partnering with organisations who are migrating to new housing management platforms or looking to strengthen their existing processes through improved integrations, automation and insight‑driven reporting.
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Steve Szabo	Nick Dyos
Complyon Ltd	Encite
I'm an independent digital transformation consultant with over a decade of experience working within the UK social housing sector - first vendor-side with platforms including Civica Cx and Keystone, and now directly with clients where I work with housing associations and local authorities to bridge the gap between complex housing software and operational reality. My work spans Civica Cx implementation and optimisation, asset and compliance management, data integration and reporting (SQL, Power BI, Azure, REST APIs), and data protection consultancy. I understand both the technical and the human side of transformation - what the software can do, and what housing teams actually need it to do.	ND blurb