A trusted thinking partner for leaders navigating growth and complexity.
I work alongside CEO’s and leadership teams to create clarity, strengthen judgements, and build the capacity to lead well.
A trusted thinking partner for leaders navigating growth and complexity.
I work alongside CEO’s and leadership teams to create clarity, strengthen judgements, and build the capacity to lead well.
If you are a leader who values openness, curiosity, and adaptive leadership, work with me to develop a resilient, high-performing team that delivers consistently.
If you are a leader who values openness, curiosity, and adaptive leadership, work with me to develop a resilient, high-performing team that delivers consistently.
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I am a leadership and team coach who partners with experienced leaders to create space for them to lead with clarity. I work with leaders to develop creative, resilient teams that are deeply connected and able to deliver consistently beyond expectations with energy and purpose.
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My approach is collaborative and results-focused, supporting leaders and teams build awareness, capability, and confidence. I use practical tools to help leaders see the larger system they work in, along with models that provide them with insight on how others see them.
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I partner with leaders from all sectors, with a focus on those scaling their business. This involves leveraging oppprtunities in an agile way, building great teams to support their ambition and dealing with challenges like navigating growth, change, and prioritising the vital few initiatives which will have the biggest impact.
Programmes
Scaling with Impact
A leadership journey for CEOs who want to scale with clarity, alignment, and confidence.
CEO/Leadership Coaching
1:1 coaching for leaders who want greater clarity, confidence, and impact in how they lead.
Board Advisory
Advising Boards and leadership teams through growth and complexity.
Leadership Team Coaching
A team coaching program that strengthens collaboration, decision-making, and performance.
Why My Clients Work With Me
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I bring real leadership experience from having led complex organisations, made difficult trade-offs, and carried responsibility for people, performance, and outcomes. Clients value working with someone who understands the pressure of leadership from the inside. Sectoral experience includes financial services, telecommunications, customer support, experience and retail.
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Clients come to me when decisions feel heavy, priorities are blurred, or everything feels urgent. I create the space and structure that allows leaders to slow down, see what really matters, and make confident decisions.
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I don’t arrive with a fixed methodology or off-the-shelf solutions. I work alongside my clients, asking the questions that matter, helping them see patterns, and supporting them to arrive at decisions they own.
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Clients value my ability to be both steady and direct. I create a psychologically safe environment — and I will also name what others avoid, challenge assumptions, and hold the line when it matters.
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My work connects commercial reality with how people actually think, behave and lead. This allows leaders to address not just what needs to change, but why change gets stuck.
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Clients trust me with their most complex thinking — knowing that conversations are confidential and that they have my full attention, presence and commitment.
Trusted By
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"Elaine is kind, dedicated & generous with her time & advice. She really invests in the process and the coach-client relationship which was central to the progress & development I now make as a team & business leader."
- Sarah Regan, Head of External Communications, Vodafone Ireland
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"Elaine is an incisive & thought-provoking facilitator, ensuring every minute spent by the team at the workshops added real value. I thoroughly recommend. Finding Flow in Your Teams was an excellent exercise for us as a newly merged team."
- Vicki Cunningham, CEO of JENZA
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"Elaine provided great insight, perspective and support to me when I sold my business. From her solid financial acumen, to her insightful questions, to talking out the big decisions as well as getting the smaller things done, Elaine’s supported the process end to end."
- Barry Byrne, ICT Project Management
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"Elaine’s depth of listening and understanding means she can delicately deep dive into seemingly small elements of the discussion to mine critical information to support you moving forward. She allowed me come to the nub of the issue myself with the correct amount of coaxing."
- Ruth Mellett
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"Working with Elaine strengthened my confidence and leadership presence at a pivotal stage in my role. She helped me prioritise more effectively, delegate with clarity and navigate senior stakeholder relationships with greater assurance. Her combination of commercial understanding and thoughtful challenge created the space I needed to step forward more decisively as a leader."
- Caroline Gildea, Lifestyle Sports
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"Elaine brought clarity, financial rigour, and direct challenge to the table. She’s pushed me to properly understand the financial drivers of the business and what the figures are saying, where margin is won or lost, and where my attention should sit. Our sessions were disciplined and accountability-driven. Assumptions were tested. Decisions were grounded in data. Cashflow and priorities became crystal clear."
- Sinead Fitzgerald, BioGaia
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"During a period of rapid growth at Viatel, Elaine’s coaching gave me the space to think at a different level, allowing me to test ideas, reframe challenges, and elevate my leadership. The result: clearer strategy, faster decisions, stronger alignment, sharper accountability across the team, and the confidence to operate effectively at board and shareholder level."
Damien McCann, Viatel
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Inspiring Keynotes
Speaking on embedding flow in leadership and teams, supporting organisations to build presence, clarity, and meaningful impact in complex environments.
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Each engagement is tailored and may include:
1:1 CEO advisory and thinking partnership
Senior leadership team alignment sessions
Executive coaching
Strategy and decision-making frameworks
Ongoing advisory support, including board-level engagement where appropriate
Some clients engage for a defined period. Others retain me as a long-term trusted advisor during scale, transition, or transformation.
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Many executive coaches focus primarily on personal development.
My work integrates commercial leadership experience with strategic clarity and behavioural insight.
Before establishing my advisory practice, I served as CEO of Tesco Mobile Ireland, leading commercial growth and organisational transformation at scale.
Clients value that I understand the realities of leadership while creating the space required for high-quality decisions.
I operate as both strategic advisor and thinking partner,not solely as a coach.
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This work is particularly valuable if you are:
Scaling beyond founder-led leadership
Experiencing increasing organisational complexity
Building second-tier leadership capability
Repeating the same strategic conversations
Carrying disproportionate decision weight
Preparing for growth or transformation
If this resonates, we begin with a confidential exploratory conversation.