About

Background

Mary has worked over the last 20 years as a strategic business consultant, facilitator and business coach to CEO’s of SME companies and to senior executives in larger organisations.

Mary’s depth of business experience over the last 30 years comes from many years as a senior executive and CEO in the IT sector - including setting up a successful European division of a US multinational, setting up and running her own award winning international technology business, and running a public company. Mary’s vast breadth of experience is the result of working with literally hundreds of entrepreneurs, CEO’s and senior executives in a variety of sectors, helping them develop their business strategy, and the leadership skills to implement it. She has sat on the coaching panels of AIB and Enterprise Ireland, and is co-author of the book, ‘Managing Professionals and Other Smart People’.

As an experienced CEO, she is passionate about helping other CEO's and senior executives develop their leadership and management skills to maximise their business and personal potential.

She now spends most of her time helping CEO’s of SME’s and larger organisations deal with the wide range of issues that need addressing including facilitation of strategic reviews and planning, CEO leadership and management coaching, management team performance development, career and personal development, hiring key ‘C’ level positions and conflict management.

Consultancy and Coaching Experience

Since 1996 Mary has consulted with and coached CEOs of companies in the technology, medical, healthcare, pharma, automotive, biotech, food and professional services sectors. She has worked with senior executives in organisations such as AIB, Top Security Group, Diageo, Eircom, O2, Pfizer, Bayer and some of the major hospitals. Mary has also sat on the coaching panels of AIB and Enterprise Ireland and is co-author of the book “Managing Professionals and Other Smart People”.

Since early 2000’s, Mary has been a Strategy Coach on a number of IMI’s Business Development Programs and on DIT’s Hothouse/New Frontiers Programs. More recently, she has been Lead Business Coach on the Cambridge University Connecting for International Growth Program and also Coach on the Cambridge University Accelerated Growth Program working with a number of CEO’s to apply course learnings and accelerate the growth of their business. She is currently a Business Coach on Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation for Growth Program where she is working with top teams in a variety of sectors to develop and integrate an Innovation culture and strategy into their business.

The combination of Mary’s business experience and CEO experience coupled with her extensive business consulting and executive coaching experience has given her in-depth understanding of the breadth of business issues and challenges that face CEO’s and their Management Teams in all aspects of their business (and how they can best address them), and brings a unique set of skills to the strategic business planning and executive coaching arena.

Qualifications

Mary has a BSC (Hons 1st) in Computer Science & Maths from UCD. She has a Diploma in Counselling & NLP from IICH and completed a Masters NLP Practitioners Course. She also holds a Diploma in Executive Coaching (Hons 1st) from the IMI, and is trained/qualified in the use of a variety of psychometric assessments including EQi2.0, E Qi Emotional Intelligence based 360, MLQ competency based 360, MBTI/JTI, and 15FQ+ Personality profiling.

Mary is a member of the British Psychological Society and a registered Test user of a variety of assessments.

Why Mary?

Having run private and public companies herself (she was one of the first females in Ireland to run a public company – Rapid Technology Group in 1999) and having consulted to, and coached hundreds of CEO’s, senior executives and owner/managers to develop growth plans and address difficult issues in their companies, Mary has built up a set of skills which are quite unique in Ireland. These skills mean she can quickly identify the 'real' problems and issues in an organisation and help people set about addressing them in a sensible and workable way.

Mary's key strength is in getting to the core issues quickly and accurately, whether they are strategic issues, people issues, organisational issues, or personal issues – in fact, they are often a combination of all four. Her real skill is in bringing clarity to the situation which makes it easier to see what needs addressing, and then setting out a clear direction and roadmap to follow. Having 'Been there and done that', Mary is able to grasp the challenges that CEOs’s can encounter and offer impartial and objective, experienced based advice (something which is remarkably difficult to find).

Her training and real-world experience (both in the companies she has lead herself, and the hundreds of companies she has helped over the years) allow her to take on board and understand both business, people, and personal influences, in a no-nonsense way. Mary has helped many businesses in the areas of strategic business planning, leadership development, management/team development, and innovation. She also adds huge value in the area of CEO skills development and senior executive coaching. To see what her clients have to say about her, check out their testimonials.