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Lucy Unger

Advisor

“An experienced advisor will ground you and give you the confidence to execute. After a good session, invariably someone will say “I’m all fired up now! I know what I have to do.”

Lucy Unger

Experience

After cutting her teeth in marketing roles at Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, Tesco and Coca-Cola, Lucy stepped into the agency world, launching her own branding business in Australia.

In 2001 she joined WPP’s design agency FITCH in London as Client Director and then Managing Director heading a team of 90 people with offices in Russia, the UAE and Qatar, developing long-term relationships with HSBC, Hyundai, Nissan, Vodafone, M&S, Morrisons and Tata.

She then accepted an in-house role as Head of Design for Diageo India, building the marketing team’s design literacy as well as streamlining and increasing the capability of the agency roster.

Lucy holds a coaching and mentoring accreditation recognised by the ILM and EMCC and has been a DBA Expert and successful mentor in their highly regarded Twenty/Twenty Mentoring programme for the last 4 years. She also uses the Clifton Strengths Assessment to help leaders recognise and harness their innate strengths.

If you would like to to have an exploratory chat with Lucy about growing your agency, get in touch with us via the form below.

Sweetspots

  • Lucy believes passionately that so much value can be created simply by mentoring leaders and their teams

  • She is genuinely energised by sharing the knowledge she has gained throughout her career — winning new business, nurturing relationships, building organisations that work and leading high performance teams

  • She works one-to-one with board directors, P&L owners and senior managers in creative businesses to boost their management skills and leadership presence

    “Working with Lucy as part of a 12-month mentoring programme is up there as being one of the most influential experiences of my professional career to date… it resulted in me achieving a reinvigorated approach to how we run our business and a refreshed sense of purpose as to why we do what we do, in often challenging scenarios and indeed during challenging times.”

    Owner/MD, Design Industry

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