Collaborations
I collaborate with some of the best organisations on creating and delivering global individual and team coaching assignments and other activities such as leadership, team coach, and commercial capability development.
At this stage of my professional journey, there are five organisations where I commit most of my time. I use the word professional, as it is also critical for me to spend time with my young family and pursue other interests such as property development and songwriting.
How did these collaborations come about?
Most started with a good coffee. When asked this question, I begin by saying that I remain open to every possibility, believing that any conversation could be the start of something great. In each of these collaborations, one person spotted something in me that they wanted to explore. Usually, discussions took place to test for a sense of common purpose and shared values. On reflection, in every instance, there was a test of sorts!! In most cases, this involved me being in a room for a day with one of the people below, either training, facilitating, speaking or team coaching.
How do you decide who to work with and when?
In short, the market mainly decides. The level of work with each tends to ebb and flow, based on demand and business circumstances. For any potential conflict of effort or interest, one value comes to mind – total transparency. I have open and honest conversations. If a prospective client approaches me, I ask myself who’s approach, experience, spirit, essence (whatever you want to call it) will best serve this client and their needs. If the answer is more than one of those I partner with, we have an open and honest conversation about jointly collaborating.
How do you find the time?
It’s a great question. I believe that twenty years of leading multiple teams while working in Kerry Group PLC prepared me for today. I also think that when you love your work, which I do, being busy is rarely an issue. As a professional coach, my supervisor helps me reflect on each of my collaborations and my balance in life. In recent years, the most challenging period from a time perspective was co-writing Building Top Performing Teams. Paradoxically, it was also the period of my life when I have felt most purposeful and fulfilled.
About who I collaborate with
Meet John F Kelly
Executive Coaching, Life Coach and Managing Partner at FXL Executive Solutions
John is a Transformative Executive, Leadership and Life Coach in Ireland, committed to transforming individuals and organisations. Co-Founder of The Connected Salesperson, committed to helping salespeople understand the power of how authentic connection to their true selves helps connection and sales with their customers.
Empowering individuals and helping people and businesses fulfil their potential has always been a key part of his leadership approach.
He’s a specialist in the food & drink and retail industry with proven growth record in developing individuals and companies.
Meet Alex Lazarus
Managing Director at Lazarus & Maverick Limited
Alex heads up Lazarus & Maverick, a fusion of coaching practitioners and researchers, a global network of experts in behavioural change and high-performance, leadership excellence and organisational effectiveness, with access to 1st class executive coaches and facilitators in most locations around the world.
Alex credits Richard Branson, ex-employer, with inspiring her to put curiosity and courage back in business. An award-winning marketer (previously: Marketing Director, Disney), Alex holds MSc in Coaching and Behaviour Change from Henley Business School, NLP Practitioner Diploma and other qualifications enabling her to merge insights that impact business, including socioeconomic factors, marketplace dynamism, cutting-edge psychology and social studies honouring the human and human needs at work.
Meet Lucy Widdowson
Director at Performance Edge Partners Ltd
Lucy is an Executive and Team Coach and Consultant specialising in leadership development and coaching.
She works with global and UK organisations, teams and individuals to develop commercial, sustainable leadership development programmes and provide transformational coaching.
She is passionate about helping others maximise their strengths and improve their performance in order to achieve their objectives and full potential.
Her specialties are: executive coaching, team coaching, leadership development, board development, women in leadership.
Meet Nicole Sorrell
Global Director at Lumina Learning
Nicole passionately helps leaders, teams and organisations to build their skills and inner resources to work together to successfully navigate challenges and opportunities. She wanted to create personality assessments that embrace paradox and value human beings as unique and dynamic. Consequently, she co-founded Lumina Learning with her partner Dr Stewart Desson.
Nicole’s personal and professional life experience and challenges over the last 30 years has placed her in a unique position to deeply understand what it means to be human and how to emerge amidst diverse situations. These experiences give her a level of expertise and sensitivity in mental health, relationships, mind control and how to thrive as a leader in business.
Henley Business School
The Henley Centre for Coaching
Henley Business School is a triple-accredited business school and part of the University of Reading. With campuses, offices and partnerships around the world, over 7,000 students from more than 100 countries and over 80,000 alumni from 160 countries, it’s a truly international institution.
The courses are enriched by up-to-date knowledge, research and commercial experience, and aimed at students and professionals at every stage of their career – from undergraduate through to postgraduate, PhD, MBA, DBA and executive education.
If you want to say hello, discuss anything I have written about on this website, or explore how coaching with me and those I partner with, could benefit you, your team(s) or organisation, I would be delighted to hear from you.
In the last several years, here are some of the companies I have been honoured to work with
