NEWS: Lucy Paine nominated for Outstanding Contribution

NEWS: Lucy Paine nominated for Techies Award

Wide-ranging expertise

Having been an always possible Associate since 2019, Lucy Paine is the backbone to many of our business growth and tech innovation projects.

She has worked for pre IPO startups in Silicon Valley, multi billion dollar technology corporates, run her own businesses and supported hundreds of founders over 5 years at Sussex Innovation Centre.

Aside from always possible, Lucy’s current projects include an Innovation Fund for UWE, and developing a tech community for TechSPARK in Swindon & Wiltshire. It is for the latter project that her work has been recognised in the shape of a nomination for Outstanding Contribution to Swindon & Wiltshire Tech.

Lucy has worked on TechSPARK Ecosystem Development in Swindon & Wiltshire for the last 3.5 years and has helped to start lots of new conversations and relationships as a result – connecting the dots to help businesses and organisations come together to ignite growth in the region.

Helping leaders work out what’s next

Lucy’s curiosity, breadth of knowledge and outstanding facilitation and mentoring skills have seen her working across a diverse range of projects with always possible:

providing mentoring to female and minority ethnic business leaders as part of >BREAKTHROUGH
delivering workshops on Business Model Canvas to entrepreneurs as part of The Confident Business series
hosting panel discussions on the topics of Ageing Well and Modern Slavery for The University of Sussex

“This has been amazing!!! I can’t wait to come back tomorrow and learn more.”

Feedback from a GLIDE participant following one of Lucy’s workshops.

We congratulation Lucy for this recognition of her work with TechSpark.

LinkedIn Live: Products & Projects

A quick-fire, no-nonsense LinkedIn Live discussion between Lucy Paine and always possible CEO, Richard Freeman. Part of the How to plan when it’s impossible to plan series from 2021.