It was around 2012 when Lisa came to terms with the fact that the brainstorming around her dinner table for practical solutions to labour trafficking was a lot more strategically sound, scalable, and feasible – not to mention bolder, more exciting, and more optimistic – than that which was happening in the UN inter-agency anti-trafficking meetings in which she had been actively participating (and often leading) for nearly a decade. New approaches and models were needed in the anti-trafficking sector.  The key ingredient that Mark suggested introducing into the anti-trafficking world was the structuring and cultivation of collaborative partnerships with the private sector to create levers and opportunities for identifying and resolving risk, as well as for empowering workers.  Months of modeling and brainstorming with colleagues from businesses who went on to become Issara’s first Strategic Partners, coupled with stringent considerations for ethics and empowerment of vulnerable populations along the way, led to the design and launch of Project Issara in 2014, with the support of Humanity United plus 10 global brands and retailers from the UK and US.  This led to the design and creation of the Issara Inclusive Labour Monitoring (ILM) approach, Issara's worker voice technology tools, and on-the-ground technical teams to further strengthen empowered worker voice and data for business intelligence and action.  Lisa served as the founding Executive Director, growing Project Issara into Issara Institute, while Mark served as President of the founding Board of Directors, also joining as staff in the critical growth period of 2016-2021 to oversee strategy and global partnerships operationally.