Meet Luke Kennedy, the Community Engagement Coordinator at Impact Hub Euston! Fresh from his Law degree, Luke jumped into Impact Hub to explore new career paths and build his network. He loves the dynamic vibe and the awesome community. With a passion for helping others and ensuring everyone feels welcome, Luke is all about integrity and balance.
Name: Luke Kennedy
Role: Community Engagement Coordinator at Impact Hub Euston.
My role is to welcome members and guests, manage daily operations in the reception and café areas, and support events to ensure an outstanding visitor experience.
How did you come to be a part of the Impact Hub London Team?
I joined Impact Hub after finishing my Law undergraduate as a way to build my professional network and gain wide range exposure to different career paths at a time where I was still undecided on what impact I wanted to make in my professional career. I found the job on Indeed and thought it would be the best place to do this.
What do you love about your role?
The Coworkers
What has been something you are particularly proud of in your role?
Opening a new space with the initial Euston team and helping usher Impact Hub London into a new era of operations.
What one word would you use to describe Impact Hub and describe why?
Dynamic – Every week there’s a new challenge to face and problem to solve. From a community standpoint, we are always getting fascinating new members with different stories carrying different purposes and different impacts they can have to make the world a better place.
Can you name a colleague or member who has had a positive impact on your work?
Two colleagues that had a positive impact during my time at the Hub are Kaye McDougall and Kam Saran. Both were mentor like figures for me while I worked with them and always put me as an individual before me as an employee.
What’s a valuable lesson you’ve learned in your career?
To put yourself first but always be nice to people no matter what. Integrity is the driving force of success. Also the ability to say no and be aware, but not restricted, by my limits.
How do you work to improve your work-life balance?
I make sure that I restrict all my work to strict work hours only. Nothing work related should be, or will be, done outside of those hours and it’s essential for me to have a strict line.
What’s the most interesting talent or interest you have that most people don’t know about?
One of my favourite pastimes is planning and writing novels or short stories.
If you could magically acquire a new skill overnight, what would it be, and how would you use it at work?
The ability to take more risks and be less afraid or confined by the consequences.
What techniques do you use to foster innovation and creativity within your team?
Communication and openness in my own, and my colleagues, ideas and critics.
What book / podcast / show would you recommend?
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Goodreads). Chinua Achebe is a genius in the way he manipulates his narrative prose and grounds all his imagery in the natural beings of the Earth in order to present the Igbo tribe as a people, and later contrast that with how missionaries shatter the tribes collective. So its a must read for appreciators of the art that is writing.
