Chief Change Officer
#177 Lucy Gernon: Why Confidence Isn’t About Being Loud (Or Quoting Oprah)
13 Feb 2025
Who is Lucy Gernon and what is her background?
Hi, everyone. Welcome to our show, Chief Change Officer. I'm Vince Chen, your ambitious human host. Our show is a modernist humility for change progressives in organizational and human transformation from around the world. Today, let's give a warm welcome to our first guest from Ireland, Lucy Garner.
Lucy is not only a mother of three and a millennial, but she also has a background in biotech and has spent many years in medical science. Yet in the last few years, She made a bold leap into entrepreneurship, now coaching emerging and established women leaders. Here on my show, I don't share and tell success stories to glorify success. I dive into real, lived experiences
complete with successes, setbacks, surprises, and all the twists and turns. Lucy's story is exactly that. And it's one I'm excited to explore beyond just the accolades she's received. Let's begin this journey together now.
Oh, thank you so much for having me, Vince. I'm so happy to be here with you today.
Lucy, let's start with the juicy part of the interview with you telling us about your journey from biotechnology to women leadership coaching.
Lots of twists and turns for sure. Everybody in life. So, yeah. So my name is Lucy Garnon and I am a triple certified multi-award winning executive coach.
And I work with women in leadership roles to support them to achieve their leadership career goals with more confidence without sacrificing work-life balance, work-life harmony, work-life blend, whatever you want to call it, because it really is possible. And the reason I started my business is, like you shared, I'm from Ireland. I studied biotechnology.
I was actually a microbiologist for a long time. I worked in the food and beverage sector for a while. And then I spent the majority of my two decades in American multinationals, primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. And I ran the microbiology department on a sterile manufacturing site. I had a team.
I was involved in a lot of managing teams across different time zones and trying to coordinate stakeholders across different time zones and things like that, trying to get projects over the line and run the day-to-day operations as well. And while I absolutely loved what I did for a certain period of time, I always knew I had so much more to give.
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