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Lydia Howland

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Leadership Team at Nous
📍 London, England, United Kingdom

Lydia leads at Nous, building an AI-enabled B Corp to simplify UK household bills. Her career combines over a decade of design and innovation expertise from IDEO with leadership experience in user research at major tech scale-ups like Deliveroo and onefinestay. She holds a First Class degree in English Literature from Cardiff University.

Lydia has a background in the arts and humanities and a humorous take on technology, once joking about a "deep fear of browser extensions" while teaching herself to code. The provided data mentions she has two cats, and her writing background is evident in her witty and articulate communication style.

Unique fact: She was once locked inside a McDonalds in Blackpool with Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and 12 Secret Service agents.

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Leadership Team
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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AI for Social Good
Currently building an AI-led B Corp with a social mission to prove tech can be a force for good, making people's lives simpler and fairer.
User-Centric Research
Passionate about user-centricity, having led the User Research team at Deliveroo and spent over a decade at design firm IDEO focusing on user-centered design.
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Career

Work history

8-2021
Leadership Team
Nous
5-2019 - 7-2021
Head of User Research
Deliveroo
1-2017 - 5-2019
Founder & Director
Louin Limited
6-2015 - 12-2016
Head of Guest & Homeowner Service
onefinestay
10-2004 - 6-2015
Design & Portfolio Director
IDEO
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Education
10-1998 - 5-2001
BA Joint Honours English Literature and Cultural Criticism (First Class)
Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
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