What does LCI stand for?
Leadership
Augmentation
As CEOs and leadership teams, sometimes you have the skills but not the time to do the work you need. Other times the nature of the growth or other type of change you are experiencing requires new skills. LCI Associates jumps in alongside you to lift the load, augment your leadership and get the job done.
Change
Guidance
Expect LCI Associates to provide change guidance throughout engagements. We provide most of our guidance informally and conversationally, on the job and in response to your circumstances and needs – always keeping the focus on practical application and implementation. It’s light touch, high impact.
Investment
Readiness
Whether your goal is to raise investment, fundraise, sell your company, achieve a market listing, maximise your company’s value or your own, enhance your reputation or impact, or achieve greater recognition and financial rewards, the focus of LCI Associate’s work is to get you ready and to walk beside you to success.
Shelley Meagher
Shelley grew up in Melbourne and has spent her career between Australia and the UK. Today she supports leaders in both countries in successfully navigating change, focusing on viability and leveraging both her range and a proven ability to spot commercial opportunities. Previously a driving force behind two of Magdalen College, Oxford’s initiatives in entrepreneurship and leadership, and earlier CEO of Do it on the Roof, a company which innovated in infrastructure and natural capital, Shelley brings a combination of vision, resourcefulness and practicality acquired during more than 25 years of deep and wide-ranging experience.
Shelley has the down-to-earth approach to change and “can do” attitude to be expected from a childhood of camping, horse treks and hiking in the Australian bush. A former rowing captain and coach, she is at home building teams. In assisting in war reparations and international shipping mediations as aide to a judge on the Court of Appeal of the UK early in her career, she saw at first hand the power of considered, deliberate, institutional action, and the fundamental role of the decisions, judgment and leadership of individuals. Over time, these insights have shaped her focus.
In Oxford Shelley led the creation of an active entrepreneurship and innovation network comprising alumni, fellows and students of Magdalen College, companies at The Oxford Science Park, and leaders in the broader Oxford innovation ecosystem. This attracted 8-figure investments into the commercialisation of IP and resulted in board appointments, recruitment, and support services to spinouts and assistance from industry leaders in developing the ecosystem’s infrastructure. In addition to supporting spinouts post Series A, it also enabled Shelley on occasion to identify and facilitate the acceleration of emerging companies with high potential. All these initiatives expanded on Shelley’s earlier first foray into the commercialisation of IP when, as CEO of a green infrastructure company, she led the commercial development of a response to the pathogen which was then the most significant threat to biodiversity. That venture in turn drew on knowledge and experience gained in her earliest role with Davstoc management consultancy in Melbourne, through business training with Mitsui trading house in Japan, and through leadership development with BP in the UK.
In 2018, together with others, Shelley developed an executive leadership development program for black and minority ethnic leaders from across UK industry, and set up and ran its mentorship program. Delivered by the House of Commons, Oxford University, Magdalen College, Operation Black Vote and Lloyd’s Bank, Pathway to Success was acclaimed as the national gold standard for leadership programs and also attracted interest from the US State Department.
A former lecturer at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, and a Violet Vaughan Morgan Commonwealth Scholar, Shelley holds a DPhil in English Literature from Oxford University. She has published on Australian environmental planning and is a Fellow of Melbourne’s Centre for Sustainable Leadership. Shelley serves on the support panel for the Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowships and formerly served on the Melbourne Development Committee for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and as President of the under 40s philanthropic fund for the National Gallery of Victoria.
“Shelley is a deeply strategic thinker with a strongly pragmatic and practical bent (quite a rare mix). She combines a formidable mind with a lovely warm manner. She has lived experience as a founder and thus a lot of empathy for those building an endeavour. Also (no small thing) she is fun!”
DR CLARE HARDING
CEO
EQUIANO and RAINBIRD GROUP
“It has been a genuine pleasure working with you on Magdalen Means Business. I believe that programme has the potential to be something very exciting. I really appreciate your help in getting that off the ground. Your energy and commitment in bringing people together and making it happen were invaluable.”
RORY MAW
BURSAR
MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD