22 Facts About Lucy Kellaway

Lucy Kellaway was born on 26 June 1959 and is a British journalist turned teacher.

Lucy Kellaway remains listed as a management columnist at the Financial Times, and became a trainee teacher in a secondary school in 2017.

Lucy Kellaway is a co-founder of the educational charity Now Teach.

Lucy Kellaway is best known for her satirical commentaries on the limitations of modern corporate culture.

Lucy Kellaway was a regular commentator on the BBC World Service daily business programme Business Daily.

Lucy Kellaway's sister is the critic and The Observer writer Kate Kellaway.

Lucy Kellaway attended Camden School for Girls, where her mother taught English, and then Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

At the British Press Awards 2006, Lucy Kellaway was named Columnist of the Year.

Lucy Kellaway wrote the "Dear Lucy" column, in which she adopts the point of view of a business agony aunt in response to letters sent by readers.

Lucy Kellaway has won the Work Foundation's Workworld Media Award twice.

Lucy Kellaway wrote the management book Sense and Nonsense in the Office which was published in 1999.

Lucy Kellaway thinks of himself as highly emotionally intelligent but has no idea how he is coming across.

Lucy Kellaway is hungry for money, but more hungry for recognition.

Lucy Kellaway wants people to love him and to be dazzled by his ability to "think outside the square," yet the ideas he comes up with are phony and pedestrian.

Lucy Kellaway is a shameless player of the political game who manages by being a world-class brownnoser to disguise the fact that his native abilities are not quite as world-class as he would like.

In November 2016, it became known that Lucy Kellaway was leaving the Financial Times.

In 2018 Lucy Kellaway announced that she was turning her back on maths to teach children business studies instead, a decision she has written about in the Financial Times.

Whilst training to teach in 2017, Lucy Kellaway co-founded the charity Now Teach with social entrepreneur Katie Waldegrave.

Lucy Kellaway said that "maths wasn't right for me, it was too long ago since I'd done it" and that her move to working part time was due to working full time being "unendurably hard work".

Lucy Kellaway was a regular contributor to the BBC World Service programme Business Daily.

Lucy Kellaway was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to education.

Lucy Kellaway was married to David Goodhart, the former editor of Prospect; the couple separated in 2015.