Lisa Macqueen
CEO & Founder, Cleancorp Coaching
Lisa Macqueen is the CEO and Founder of Cleancorp, one of Australia's most recognized commercial cleaning companies.
What makes Lisa different isn't the size of her business. It's how she built it.
She started in an industry that most people write off as low-margin, high-churn, and impossible to scale. She didn't accept that.
Over two decades she built Cleancorp into a multi 8-figure national operation, by making a decision most cleaning businesses never make. She runs Cleancorp like a marketing and communications company. AI handles the operational heavy lifting. Her people focus entirely on the human work: winning clients, landing major contracts, building relationships, and creating the kind of culture and reputation that sets a business apart.
The results speak for themselves. Cleancorp is nationally recognised, operationally sharp, and in 2025 was named Australia's #1 Best Place to Work, all inside a cleaning company.
That didn't happen by accident. And it didn't happen by working harder.
Lisa has spent years figuring out what actually moves the needle in a service business, and what just keeps owners busy. She's built the processes, embedded AI agents into real day-to-day operations, and led a team through every stage of growth. She's also made the mistakes, so she can tell you exactly which ones to skip.
She is also the co-founder of The Facilities Forum, a community supporting women in facilities management, and works with a small group of cleaning businesses through Cleancorp Coaching.