Biography
As Director of the Modern Work Business Group for Microsoft ANZ, Lucy leads a team that spans go-to-market strategy & execution. Lucy is responsible for the performance and growth of ANZ’s Modern Work business and driving a connected Sales & Marketing plan.
Lucy is a Microsoft veteran having joined the company in the UK in 2007 where she focused on driving customer and partner experience with Microsoft before relocating to Sydney in 2014 to take on a leadership role in the Public Sector business.
Following this, Lucy spent 3 years as COO in Microsoft’s Commercial Partner organisation helping partners grow their Microsoft practice before moving on to lead ANZ’s Business Strategy and Sales Operations Team focused on driving ANZ’s business performance and growth.
Prior to Microsoft Lucy worked at the BBC in London.
Lucy is passionate about helping people and teams grow and enabling enhanced productivity across the workforce and everyday life. She has a particular interest in organizational psychology and cultivating teams that thrive through times of change and transformation.
Originally from the UK, Lucy has called Sydney home for the last nine years. Outside of work Lucy loves to swim, cycle and run and has been known to compete in Ironman events around the globe. She is married and has two sons.
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AI: The Impact on Meeting Culture
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The amount of time people spend in meetings has increased 3x since 2020, according to a Microsoft Work Trend Index report (one of the premier global research surveys on work).
The data also shows that inefficient meetings are the number one productivity disrupter and typically, people will attend a 60-minute meeting for 2 minutes of insight with at least a quarter of participants never coming off mute. The problem isn’t meetings themselves, after all they’re how we often collaborate. The issue is meeting overload and how many of us are struggling to keep up, which impacts overall organisational productivity.
Generative AI (Gen AI) is changing this and helping us rethink the nature of meetings. Hear from Lucy Debono and Jason Flynn on Copilot for Microsoft 365 – the Generative AI tool that sits across Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams – and how it is impacting meeting culture and driving productivity gains.
