Lucy Regan

“Our workplace is more collaborative than ever”

• Personal achievement

  “Stepping into this role has been my biggest personal achievement,” Lucy says, reflecting on 12 years working up from product management into leadership.

  “I wouldn’t be where I am today without the team that’s around me, not just my immediate team, but across the board. In my years with IGDG, I have been able to take a rollercoaster ride across loads of operational and commercial functions. Through it all, the company has been really supportive in creating key steps to get me where I am today.”

• More collaborative than ever

  Lucy is inspired by the company culture at IG Design Group, she says. “Our workplace culture is shift-ing in a positive way, we’re more collaborative than we’ve ever been. There’s a willingness to ensure that if somebody sees a future, even without a direct step up, we’ll work with them and find ways to offer development opportunities.” She adds that the inclusion of more women in our senior man-agement, particularly Emily Thomas-Hey who started as Design Group UK’s first female director in 2018, powerfully illustrates this year’s IWD theme, ‘accelerated action’.

• Try new things

  Lucy’s message to anyone starting out in their career, is to “pave your own path, be willing to try new things, and follow whatever route it takes to reach your goals, embracing guidance from your peers. You don’t need to feel like there are always clear steps of progression. There are always opportunities to expand, and your journey can be whatever you want it to be. It’ll come in its own, unique form, and that’s okay.”

• Learn more

  Find out more about IG Design Group UK and its culture here:
  https://igdesigngroup.uk/about/