Lucy Orton
Corporate consultant and registered therapist
Keynotes, training, leadership coaching and confidential one-to-one intensives, for leaders and the teams around them.
Lucy Orton works with organisations on what sits underneath performance: pressure, self-doubt, burnout, and the points where personal life and leadership collide.
Lucy began her career in advertising strategy as a WPP Fellow and has worked in strategic consulting alongside her clinical career, so she knows the pace and politics of commercial life from the inside. Lucy has more than eighteen years of clinical experience. Her focus today is founders, executives and other high performers, and she delivers every engagement personally, from a keynote for a whole company to confidential work with one senior leader.
Registered counsellor, Australian Counselling Association (ACA) #27921 · ICF-certified coach · Level 3 IFS-trained · Brainspotting practitioner · MSc, PGDip · PhD candidate · Founder, The Centre for Intensives
Four ways Lucy Orton works with organisations
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One-to-one intensives
Concentrated clinical work across several consecutive days for a senior leader in serious difficulty, under a confidentiality structure agreed with the organisation before anything begins.
How intensives work“What I didn’t expect was someone who could match my pace, see through every layer of professional armour, and still make me feel completely safe.”
Health tech founder -
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Keynotes and speaking
For offsites, conferences, employee networks and company-wide sessions, in person or online. Topics include imposter syndrome, self-sabotage and self-kindness, and leading under sustained pressure.
“I'd recommend Lucy as a great speaker, particularly for virtual and/or distributed teams.”
Erin Cook, Chief of Staff, InQuik Group -
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Training and workshops
Practical sessions for teams, leadership groups and staff, researched in advance and built around the organisation's context, with tools people keep using afterwards.
“Lucy impressed me with the research she conducted beforehand to understand who we are and our unique needs.”
Tahireh Thampi, Principal, MYIS -
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Leadership coaching
One-to-one coaching for senior leaders over several months, and coaching programmes open to staff, such as Publicis Groupe's Empowered Parents programme.
“This really is like therapy for your professional life.”
Carly Pelham, Head of Brand, Marketing & Growth, lowercase & Innocean
TuneIn · WPP · Kantar · Publicis · Credit Suisse · Innocean · OMD · Spark Foundry · University of Aberystwyth
What people inside organisations say
“Lucy's deep experience working with teams, as well as individuals, was very evident and the team gained a lot of insights from the session. I'd highly recommend Lucy to any organization who's focused on providing coaching opportunities and diverse learning to their team.”
Deanna Grams, Chief People Officer, TuneIn · on a presentation on women's coaching and imposter syndrome
“Lucy came with excellent insights, strong examples, and allowed space to split into breakout groups for our group of 30.”
Erin Cook, Chief of Staff, InQuik Group · talk on imposter syndrome in the workplace
“Following the workshop, one participant commented ‘Everyone should have the opportunity to listen to her’.”
Holly Miles, Senior Producer, Octagon · International Women's Day workshop
“Hoping the programme with Lucy continues to grow and expand across the Groupe, as I found it hugely beneficial and I know so many others would too.”
Lorna Moffatt · Empowered Parents programme, Publicis Groupe
“The 2 sessions I had with [Lucy] were very insightful, plus all the tips & advice given were easily applicable.”
Jasmine Saw, Performance Media Manager, Performics · Empowered Parents programme, Publicis Groupe
Every quote in this section is from a public recommendation, shortened in places and otherwise unedited. Each appears in full on Lucy Orton's LinkedIn profile.
Starting a conversation
Enquiries about keynotes, training, coaching or an intensive go through the organisational enquiry route and are read personally by Lucy Orton. A short outline is enough at this stage.
Start an organisational enquiry