Lucy Ryan

As Managing Director of Mindspring International for the last 20 years, has a lifetime of corporate experience. Lucy has trained, consulted with, and coached over 12,000 leaders in global, blue-chip companies across 29 countries. She is a passionate advocate for women’s professional development, helping organisations attract, retain, and promote their female leaders and gender proof their succession plans. Noticing a trend of female midlife clients leaving their corporate roles, she led a unique five-year doctoral research project exploring this phenomenon, filling a long-standing data gap. Lucy’s 2023 book, ‘Revolting Women: why midlife women walk out (and what to do about it)’, was an instant Amazon bestseller, Financial Times book of the month and hailed by the Sunday Times as “clear, pithy and enraging”. Her book won Business Book of the Year (Diversity & Inclusion), 2024. Lucy is an accredited Master Practitioner Coach and nominated in 2023 as one of the top 100 global coaches for women, and one of the ‘top 5 women to watch in 2024’. With a Masters in Positive Psychology, Lucy lectures in Positive Leadership and Organisational Well Being at the University of East London and is an honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool.