Ailbhe Harrington
Faculty Roles: Director of Education, Trainer, Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer
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.
Connie Merrick
Faculty Roles: Support Staff, 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)
Eileen Savage
Faculty Roles: Support Staff, 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.
Jamela Khan
Faculty Roles: Support Staff
Jamela has been a Director for over two decades, having initiated a Start Up company to bring the education and business sectors together. She worked on a merger with a similar Education Business Partnership forming a larger team, delivering programs in schools and colleges. She has a record of achievement in securing funding, leading and project managing both in the public and private spheres, whilst developing strategic partnerships across academia, 3rd sector, and commercial business sector. Jamela played a pivotal role in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda, innovating corporations to design and develop skills/work related projects to deliver to the education sector. Jamela is a professional coach having completed ICF accredited coach specific training with Ailbhe Harrington and is also a trained Practitioner with GTCI ( Global Team coaching Institute ) and European Mentoring and Coaching Council ( EMCC) on Systemic team coaching both of which she now practices in her own coaching business.
Karen Hayes
Faculty Roles: Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer, Support Staff
Coaching Credential: ACC
Karen is a passionate coach who works with creative thinkers, innovators, change-makers, and leaders. She helps them to be bold, fearless and liberated from any self-doubt that might be holding them back. This leads them to bring their ideas to life and make their mark on the world in the way they envision. Karen wants all her Coachees to fall back in love with Monday and help them kickstart their week by doing more of what they love!
Karen is a highly skilled coach with extensive international experience throughout her career, including with high-growth start-ups. She coaches executives and start-up businesses, large organisations, small-businesses and community groups. She is also the proud Co-founder of Connect A Coach – a successful initiative that offered free coaching to frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, and is a lead mentor of trainee coaches on ICF Accredited programmes.
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.
Liisa Rodriguez
Faculty Roles: Credentialed Observer, Support Staff, Faculty Lead
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.
Liz Carroll
Faculty Roles: Support Staff
Liz has over 30 years' experience in the development of individuals and organisations in both the public and private sectors, in a variety of industries and at all levels professionally and educationally, from early school leavers to those pursuing a masters. She has worked with SME Owner Managers, Managers in Multi Nationals and front-line workers, as well as those in the community.
Most recently she has worked at senior level in the construction industry and currently works with senior managers on the development of their employees in the industry.
Liz was a board member of ECO-UNESCO for 15 years and chair for 5 years. ECO UNESCO is a charity for the development of young people through engagement with the environment.
Liz is a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation and has mentored on a number of coach training programmes. Liz is currently establishing her own business coaching SME Owner Managers.
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.
Rob Healy
Faculty Roles: Support Staff
Rob has been involved in training, consulting, coaching and leadership roles for several years. Rob is Managing Director of the Crofton group whose main activities are Consulting, Coaching, Training and Communications. Having Completed the ICF course with Ailbhe and Coaching Development during Covid lockdown he found a renewed appreciation for the Coaching process and last year further qualified as an Insights practitioner.
He is visiting professor at the San Telmo Business school in Spain and lectures in Communications, Business Policy and Operations and is head of their Executive Coaching Department. Over the last 8 years Rob was on the Senior Leadership team of Vidrala/Encirc Glass as Group head of Learning and Development. Currently he has consulting and board positions in the Construction, Sports Management Manufacturing and Healthcare industries.
Stephen Clements
Faculty Roles: Trainer, Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential: PCC
Stephen is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). 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 running 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.
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!