Ailbhe Harrington
Faculty Roles:
Director of Education, Coach Trainer, Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer, Coaching Supervisor, Performance Evaluator
Coaching Credential:
MCC
Ailbhe has over 30 years’ experience in the field of learning and development working as the director of a UK enterprise organisation, leadership/management training specialist and third level lecturer in personal development and group dynamics. She has worked as an associate trainer with Coaching Development for 13 years delivering an ICF ACSTH programme and has recently established Aspire Coach Training. She is a Master Certified Coach with ICF and works with leaders as a thinking partner providing a reflective space where they can explore, discover and liberate themselves. This enables them to embody the full essence of who they are, who they are becoming, and in turn bring greater value, positive impact, and improved performance for the people they serve. She has coached leaders and teams since 2003 and I has a wide and diverse client base both nationally and internationally coaching C-Suite, Directors and middle management.
Alex van Oostveen
Faculty Roles:
Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer, Support Staff, Coaching Supervisor
Coaching Credential:
ICF PCC, EMCC ESIA EIA
As practitioners, coaches, supervisors, the way we work with people reveals our beliefs about how personal and professional growth happen.
Growth is not a direct path towards outcomes and solutions. It requires a deepened of understanding self, relationships, and the systems we are part of. Optimum solutions and outcomes for self and all parties to the system emerge from this understanding. Insight naturally leads to meaningful and sustainable action.
I am certified by EMCC Global as coach/mentor supervisor (ESIA) and Accredited Coach (EIA) at Senior Practitioner level, and hold a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential with ICF.
My 20-year previous career in military helicopter operational flying and advanced flight instruction affords me insight and experience in multi-faceted and risk-prone settings.
I had the privilege of flying as both wingman and leader of the South African Air Force's formation aerobatic team for 4 years, promoting aviation in RSA and neighbouring countries.
In these roles I experienced the successes, failures and unique challenges leaders face. More importantly I learned the value of effective communication and potent relationships within complex, high-risk, and dynamic organisational environments.
Using a relational approach, and informed by psychological theories (transactional analysis, Gestalt), I work with leaders and executive coaches to problem-solve more effectively, in the spheres of systems, relationships, tasks, and self.
This approach sees what emerges in our professional relationship as a window into what occurs in your life. The meaningful change that happens in our work together, supports meaningful change in your life.
Andrew Matthews
Faculty Roles:
Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
PCC
Andrew Matthews is an Executive and Leadership Development coach who believes that people are “creative, resourceful and whole”[i], whose services enable the growth and evolution of these elements. This is achieved by increasing self-awareness and intuition, enabling clients to approach their roles in a potent, competent, and resourced manner. His practice is informed by Transactional Analysis, Co-Active Coaching and Appreciative Inquiry, brought together to offer a relational and humanistic experience. Andrew is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and serves as a mentor to certifying coaches and as coach supervisor to professional coaches. Andrew has been an associate and independent coach for over ten years, working with individuals, groups and teams in various industries, including financial and banking services, private healthcare, and public benefit/non-profit organisations. Andrew has served as the vice president and on the board of directors for a certified professional body for coaches and mentors in South Africa, leading a wide scope of committees in delivering on strategic goals. [i] Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives by Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, et al.
Claire Twomey
Faculty Roles:
Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
PCC, PCAC, ACCG
Claire is a Professional Advanced ADHD coach certified with PCC from ICF and PCAC from PAAC, the Professional Association of ADHD Coaches. Using her previous experience as a Social Care Worker and her lived experience of ADHD, her coaching practice is solely for those with ADHD, their families and loved ones. Her own coaching journey began in 2016 as a client, in 2019 she trained with Ailbhe and set up ADHD Connections in 2020. She went on to train with ADD Coaching Academy in New York and obtained the Advanced ADHD Coaching certificate. Offering Executive and Personal Coaching, she works with adults and teens, in 1:1 and group format. Claire feels privileged to witness clients better understanding their ADHD and learning to lead with their strengths, in order to reduce the challenges they experience and reach their full potential. She believes in continuing professional development, she has completed NLP and mBIT training and is working towards a Master Certification.
Connie Merrick
Faculty Roles:
Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
ACC
Connie is an experienced ICF accredited professional coach and an accredited Strengths Profile practitioner. Connie has extensive experience spanning over 30 years of working in a global multinational Pharma company. On transitioning from the Pharma industry, she established her own coaching practice and is founder/director of Connie Merrick Coaching Ltd.
Offering a professional, authentic, and impactful coaching service, Connie partners with career professionals and teams to create a new awareness, improve their performance and quality of life and be the best version of themselves.
Coaching certifications from Coaching Development Ltd, mBIT International (multiple Brain Integration Techniques), Positive Psychology (Horizon Coaching) and Strengths Profile Practitioner (Cappfinity)
David Ryan
Faculty Roles:
Support Staff
am a father (of 4), husband, trained professional coach, member of International Coaching Federation (ICF), and director in a technology multi-national, living in Cork. I am passionate believer in the power of coaching, done right, to unleash transformative growth, through a combination of building self-awareness, personal responsibility and accountabilty. I experienced this myself 7 years ago and it has had life changing impact both personally and professionally. My mantra is Viktor Frankl’s quote “between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose” – we all have the freedom to choose our response to the scenarios we find ourselves in, and coaching gives us the awareness to consciously choose that response. I believe we have boundless potential that remains untapped, and I love partnering with my clients to unlock theirs.
Eileen Jameson
Faculty Roles:
External Performance Evaluator, Coaching Supervisor
Coaching Credential:
ICF PCC, EMCC Senior Practitioner
Eileen Jameson is an EMCC/ICF experienced professional personal, business and health coach and owner of WJP Coaching Partners. She is an ex-President of ICF Ireland.
Eileen is an experienced executive in broad multicultural strategic design; planning; programme and risk management; team and staff relations; succession and development.
As a Coach, Eileens clients appreciate her listening skills, understanding and for fully supporting them to achieve their goals. She understands issues from a granular perspective as well as holistically and systemically, and encourages client health and wellbeing focus as they aim to meet and address their challenges.
As a Coach Mentor, Eileen helps the coach to deeply understand the logic and impact of the competencies they are developing, for themselves, their clients and their coaching practice and to practice new behaviours in a safe and trusting space.
As a Coach Supervisor, Eileen helps the coach to expand to new ways of thinking and doing and deeper understanding of themselves, their triggers and behaviours.
As an ICF Assessor, Eileen aims to ensure fairness and appropriate application of assessment guidelines and aims to provide clear feedback on strengths and areas of development.
For Eileen, Coaching and all that goes with it, is not simply a profession. It is a way of living and being present to the community and the world around us.
Eileen Savage
Faculty Roles:
Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
ACC
Eileen is an experienced transformational coach, trainer and facilitator working primarily across the higher education sector and healthcare sectors in Ireland. She is the founder of Excello Coaching Ltd. She is a certified coach with International Coach Federation, a certified strengths practitioner with Cappfinity Ltd, and an appreciative inquiry practitioner with Coaching Leaders UK. Her coaching includes executive coaching, transition coaching, career advancement, and strengths profiling and development. She is motivated by a desire to enable individuals grow and excel to be the best version of themselves in achieving their aspirations and change goals. As a member of the Aspire Coach Training faculty, Eileen brings a wealth of individual and group support, facilitation and mentoring experience as a coach. She has mentored on coach training programmes since 2020 including the Aspire Coaching Training programme. Prior to pursuing her career as a coach, Eileen worked in higher education for over 25 years and held academic leadership positions. Her career in academia included Ireland, USA, Brunei and Indonesia. She is currently Emeritus Professor in UCC.
Geraldine McCarthy
Faculty Roles:
Support Staff
Geraldine is an ICF accredited professional coach who firmly believes that each person is the most crucial element in their own journey of growth and development. Her coaching philosophy centres on empowering clients to tap into their unique strengths, values and aspirations, serving as catalysts for meaningful change and fulfilment. Geraldine completed her coach training with Ailbhe Harrington as apart of the Autumn Group in 2022 and in July 2024 established her own coaching practice, Steer Coaching.
Prior to this Geraldine worked as a HR Business Partner to Senior Management in Brown Thomas for over 10 years. This role gave her invaluable insights into organisational dynamics, recruitment & selection, coaching, talent management and engagement. Coupled with her Masters in Work and Organisation Behaviour from the University of Limerick, she now uses her HR background and Coaching expertise to support clients in the area of career coaching and facilitating transitions. Geraldine guides individuals through the process of exploring new career paths, navigating job changes and transitioning to fulfilling roles aligned with their passions and values. Her personalised approach empowers clients to identify their career goals, develop actionable strategies and overcome challenges with confidence and resilience.
Continuously seeking to expand her knowledge and skills, Geraldine stays abreast of cutting-edge research and best practices in coaching, psychology and organisational development.
Guillaume Tourrette
Faculty Roles:
Support Staff
Guillaume [ghee-yohm] is a late-diagnosed ADHD & autistic father of two. For him, being coached was a life-changing process that he believes everyone should have the opportunity to experience.
Leaving behind a meandering career as a chemist / technology specialist / quality manager, he trained with Aspire Coach Training in 2024, then ADDCA (ADD Coach Academy) to become an ADHD coach. Dedicated to helping neurodivergent people better understand themselves and achieve their potential, he founded his coaching practice, Spicy Brain Coaching, in January 2025.
Guillaume is currently training as an Advanced ADHD Coach with ADDCA (ADD Coach Academy).
Jamela Khan
Faculty Roles:
Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
ACC, EMCC Team Coach Practitioner
Jamela currently works for a local authority in London in Transformation as a Change Agent where she leds and manages change management activities at an organisational level, providing analysis, planning, and support to ensure successful delivery of change initiatives. She coaches, and supports leaders at management level as well as Change Champions and ambassadors in all aspects of change leadership and management, driving understanding and buy-in for change initiatives. Jamela also coaches teams using the systemic team coaching model looking at current and new project requirements, as well as team dynamics, and key stakeholders. Jamela is a professional ACC coach having completed ICF accredited coach specific training with Ailbhe Harrington in 2021 and went onto become a Certified Practitioner in Team Coaching with GTCI
(Global Team coaching Institute ) and European Mentoring and Coaching Council ( EMCC) on Systemic team Coaching.
Joanna Young
Faculty Roles:
Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
ICF PCC, mBIT Master Coach, Supervision
I am passionate about development, leadership and partnering with others to achieve their full potential. We really are capable of much more than we realise, especially when we give ourselves permission to be our brilliant authentic selves and have the right support to do so. I am an experienced senior leader having worked in complex and challenging environments for over 35 years serving in both the public and finance sectors. As a mother of three I understand the challenges of balancing family and career and the inner conflict this can cause. As a neurodivergent woman I know what it's like to not quite fit in, yet inadvertently stand out. I first trained as a coach in 2015/16 having benefited from coaching myself since 2003. I believe in continuous professional development and each year commit to self development through reading, accredited courses and supervision. Courses and programmes include; MBIT Foundation, MBIT Master Coach, PQ Programme, Transactional Analysis Foundation year, MBTI Step 1 and 2. I have an MSt (Cantab), MBA and Cert Ed and am currently studying more on Transactional Analysis. I love championing and empowering others to achieve.
Lesley Cave
Faculty Roles:
Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
PCC
Lesley is a PCC, with the International Coach Federation. She has supported coaching clients as they follow their dreams for over 12 years. She works with teams and individuals across corporate, public, and third-sector organisations. Lesley also pursues her passion for nurturing coaches’ development through coach supervision, mentor coaching and; coach observation, and coach training. Lesley has been part of and worked with a number of boards thus providing a diverse experience. Lesley has been both an executive and non-executive director. She provides a diverse view on Leadership, organisational culture and development, governance, strategy and organisational delivery. Lesley works across all sectors. Lesley’s expertise is best summarised as a tripartite of a) Executive coaching, coach mentoring, coach supervision and training b) Executive & Trustee positions and c) Academic Faculty for Medical and dental Education (PGDIP), Educational Supervision & Academic Faculty for Mastery in Leadership & Management. She herself holds an MSc in Evaluation of Clinical Practice and Change Management. Lesley’s career has evolved from being the first female paramedic on a joint Fire/Ambulance Station to working as a director across organisational boundaries and in highly political systems.
Liisa Rodriguez
Faculty Roles:
Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
ACC
ICF Ireland Rising Star 2020, Liisa supports women in achieving clarity, confidence and fulfilment in their lives. Her area of expertise is Change, working with women who are seeking out new pathways and opportunities in their lives. Many of her clients have transitioned completely in their profession, others have moved smoothly from care-giving back to employment, while others have eased into retirement after a full life of work. Liisa came to coaching after a successful career in Financial Business Administration and later, a 4-year tenure as Data Protection Officer. Along with running her own business, Greenchair Coaching, Liisa is a regular facilitator and mentor on Coach Training and NLP Training Programmes. She's also a regular volunteer coach for Jobcare, an Irish charity helping individuals find employment.
Mary Ann McGowan
Faculty Roles:
Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
PCC
Mary Ann has over two decades of experience in the field of leadership and professional development. She has delivered leadership training across the globe with an emphasis on co-creating working relationships that deliver successful outcomes both at the individual and organisational level. Her core philosophy is people are not just ‘what’ they do but ‘who’ they are. She enables her clients to bring awareness to who they are being not just what they are doing and with this insight, her clients experience the freedom to choose how they want to be. Mary Ann is a PCC credentialed coach with the International Coaching Federation, a certified Conflict Mediator as well as a Life Mastery Consultant. She is also Certified in Conversational Intelligence ®, Emotional Intelligence, the Neuroscience of Change, Mindfulness and the Power of Presence to name but a few. In her work as a trainer and coach, she has built a reputation for deep and transformational work that goes beyond the transactional.
Maryjane Mulrooney
Faculty Roles:
Credentialed Observer, Faculty Lead
Coaching Credential:
ACC
ACC, Career Counsellor, Chartered Tax Adviser, Professiona Diploma Employment Law, BBS Accounting & Finance
I completed the Level 1 with Coaching Development in February 2022, and the Level 2 with Aspire Coach Training in 24/25. My background in is corprate and I have been running my private practice since 2020. I'm a career coach for women in their late 30s/40s, and help other coachs and solopreneurs find clarity and take action in setting up their businesses.
Miriam McCarthy
Faculty Roles:
Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
ACC
I am working in a senior leadership role within UL Hospitals Group and University of Limerick, and completed my coaching certification in 2019. I undertake some coaching in and outside of my work, and find the coaching skills I have learned to be invaluable in my everyday work. My primary degree was in physiotherapy, and after a success clinical career, I moved into healthcare management. I have a keen interest in change management, leadership and building a growth culture, and have worked with staff and patients to implement successful improvement programmes. I am currently undertaking an EMBA in University of Limerick.
Paula Duffy
Faculty Roles:
Support Staff
Paula completed her coach training with Ailbhe in the summer of 2022. Paula has extensive experience in the financial services sector in a senior leadership position building and leading teams of professionals responsible for all aspects of HR, Recruitment, Employee Experience, and Leadership and Management Development. Paula recently made the pivot away from the corporate world to set up Awaken Coaching. She values authenticity, empathy, empowerment and human connection. Paula believes that the greatest gift we can give ourselves, our families and our organisations is our own personal growth. Paula is passionate about working with people to empower them to live a life on purpose rather than on autopilot. She works with leaders and managers under pressure to empower them to coach their teams to high performance and to lead on purpose. Paula also works with overwhelmed individuals and working parents who struggle to balance priorities and manage stress so that they can be more present for themselves, their families and their careers. Whether you are a business leader or an individual trying to find your way, Paula works with her clients to consciously create the life they want by setting goals and making intentional choices towards a desired future. Ultimately, if you work with Paula you will live your life by design rather than by default.
Stephen Clements
Faculty Roles:
Coach Trainer, Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer, Coaching Supervisor, Performance Evaluator
Coaching Credential:
PCC (ICF) and EIA Senior Practitioner (EMCC)
Stephen is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a Senior Practitioner with the EMCC. With an extensive background in technology and leadership, he worked across a number of large multinationals in various senior roles ranging from Senior Engineering through to Head of Product Development.
His coaching journey started in 2018 when he trained with Ailbhe. Whilst leading the Business Operations for a part of the Accenture business, he also worked as a part-time internal coach where he had the pleasure of coaching senior executives from around the world with a focus on emotional intelligence.
In 2020 he was delighted to be awarded the ICF Ireland Coach of the Year and since March 2022 he has left corporate life to now focus full-time on coaching, working as an Executive Coach, Coach Trainer, Coach Mentor and Coaching Supervisor.
Tom Caffrey
Faculty Roles:
Support Staff
Coaching Credential:
ACC (EMCC)
I am married with one son and I share my time between Limerick City and Kerry. I am an ACC accredited leadership coach, building on my experience as a commissioned officer in the military and a business executive in the aviation industry.
Being coached in the people-centered ‘Lean’ principles, as we transformed our struggling business, ignited my interest in coaching, within our company, throughout our corporation and within several international business networks.
I found that technical, expert enterprises were often limited by over-valuing, and promoting, technical expertise above great people and leadership skills.
This prompted me to found 'SuccessAbility Leadership Coaching' to empower selected experts to step forward and to become the leaders that their business needs, and that team-members deserve.
Having undertaken Level 1 training in 2014, and Level 2 in 2023, I am delighted to consolidate my learning once again in 2025 and to support other learners in any way I can.
Trevor Doherty
Faculty Roles:
Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
PCC
As a Professional Coach I help all types of Leaders. Focusing on co-creating a safe, confidential space, using simple psychology we explore how they are getting in their own way. An experiential journey, I've witnessed over the years all my clients become the self aware leader that they desired, by finding their authentic self.
My mission is to have a bigger impact in the world, one coaching conversation at a time!
Vittorio Gregorio
Faculty Roles:
Support Staff
Entrepreneur, dreamer, incidentally expert in finance and banking, curious about life and the world. In the process of building my coaching practice and have co-founded an association that makes coaching accessible to people who otherwise couldn’t afford it. I share my life with a wonderful person, I have 3 children between 18 and 21 years old, a dog and 4 cats. What else? I try to play guitar..love music…art..concerts…reading … and eager to be a part of this program as support staff!