Lucy is a business all-rounder with an MBA from Insead - from start-up to succession-planning.
Photos copyright Laura Woolnough
Lucy Mori established her independent consultancy in 2008 to work with business owners and entrepreneurs. Lucy has an informal flexible working style adapted to your pace and scale; she offers a bespoke service to work with you in your office to achieve great results.
Lucy has a unique combination of business skills: as a qualified architect with experience in small (Lynn Davis Architects, Cullum & Nightingale, Berman Guedes) and large architectural practices (Charles Correa, Chapman Taylor) but also an MBA from top Business School Insead followed by professional experience at board level in non-architectural companies (Le Bon Marche Paris, Sephora - both part of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy luxury group) .
Retail has long been a passion since her first job selling curtains in Debenhams, to designing the Oyster Bar in Harrods and the huge shopping centre at Disneyland Paris; at Le Bon Marche she was in charge of developing the first e-commerce website and as UK Country Manager for Sephora she was responsible for 10 stores selling perfume and make-up round the country with a team of nearly 200 sales assistants. in 2014 Lucy was Interim Managing Director at Makower Architects and in 2015 Interim Business Development Director for Edward Williams Architects.
Lucy was born in Oxford, studied at Cambridge University and Insead Business School; she has lived in Texas, Tokyo, Brussels, Bombay, London and Paris ... she is now based in Brussels with her Japanese husband and 2 children. She has loads of architect friends and is always dreaming up new business ideas when she is not cooking or training her fruit trees to grow along the garden walls.
Image credit: Chapman Taylor, Makower Architects, Edward Williams Architects, Sephora, Harrods, South Oxfordshire District Council, Vale of the White Horse District Council, Laura Woolnough
As an ARB qualified and RIBA chartered architect, Lucy has specialised knowledge of the architectural profession and has delivered RIBA CPD training in marketing and business planning and lectured to graduate students at Oxford Brookes University, Birmingham City University, London Metropolitan University, London South Bank University, UCL The Bartlett, London School of Architecture, Museum of Architecture and the University of Cambridge. In 2013, she provided RIBA Core Curriculum training in 13 cities round the UK - on Internal Management - Business Planning and Marketing for Architects.
Since 2016, the UK Housing Crisis has been a personal focus and Lucy started a part-time MSc in Real Estate at Henley School of Management / Reading University. She has successfully completed modules on valuation, investment appraisal and residential development.I
Image credit South Oxfordshire District Council & Grimshaw Architects
n 2018, Lucy completed an 18 month contract for South Oxfordshire District Council as Development Manager for Didcot Garden Town. Lucy led the infrastructure, planning, masterplanning, technology work streams of the Delivery Plan with the objective to transform Didcot into a low carbon ‘smart city’ of 75,000 people by 2031. The focus was on community engagement, housing, place-making, sustainability, mobility, energy, IoT and health. Lucy initiated and facilitated projects including: modern methods of construction, heat networks, autonomous and connected vehicles, MaaS, public open space management, hydrogen as a fuel, renewable energy park. She contributed to bids which won significant funds from UK government to take projects forward. Smart City tech is a key part of the Didcot Garden Town vision and Lucy led on IoT enabled mobility, energy and housing projects.
Image Credit The Architects Benevolent Society Chicken Run 2015
