Lucy Adams is widely known as an expert in human resources. Throughout her career, Lucy has dedicated her time to bettering the working environments and relations of some of the country’s largest companies. From the BBC to Serco, Lucy has developed her expertise in communications and has spearheaded the HR offering of a range of companies. With previous experience in remuneration, business strategy, change management and restructuring teams. Today, Lucy is often booked as a keynote speaker for events covering her expertise in business and human relations.
Throughout her career, Lucy has sat at the forefront of HR for many respectable companies. Her best-known roles include being the HR Director for Serco Rail and the Group HR Director for Serco. Within these companies, Lucy was responsible for leading change within the organisations such as developing new strategies for remuneration, long term incentive schemes and change solutions. Lucy is also well known for her tenure as the HR Director of the BBC, where she achieved great success such as reducing costs for the company by 20%, pension reforms and restructuring of the BBC Executive Board.
In the early days of her career, Lucy began work as the Head of Strategy and Development for North Yorkshire TEC. She then later went on to work as the Business Development Director for PKF, building her knowledge of the inner workings of organisations. From then on Lucy has worked to better the corporate environments for employees at countless different organisations. She has also worked as the HR Director for Eversheds, where she restructured the leadership team, and as the Director of Firehouse Productions Ltd, an award-winning communication agency.
Since leaving Firehouse Productions, Lucy has worked as the CEO of Disruptive HR. Disruptive HR was developed to combat the ineffective HR that is frequently seen in the corporate world, bringing innovative and fresh approaches to human resources. In partnership with Disruptive HR, Lucy dedicates her time to keynote speaking at a range of corporate events. As a speaker, Lucy is sought for her in-depth knowledge of business, covering topics such as leadership, communications and engagement. Having sat at the helm of various businesses Lucy is the perfect choice as a speaker to bring understanding to innovative new forms of HR.
In October2023 we sat down virtually with Lucy Adams and discussed how businesses should deal with change and crises in business. Watch our Exclusive Interview with Lucy Adams.