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.
Aine O'Donovan
Faculty Roles:
Support Staff
I have been working in University College Cork as a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health for almost 20 years, having originally trained as a mental health nurse. My professional bio can be found here: http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/C014/aine.odonovan@ucc.ie . I am passionate about working with marginalised groups as well as promoting child and adolescent mental health and well-being. I gain energy from mentoring junior colleagues, and working to co-create a space for those who are often unheard in society to have a voice. Aside from that, my most important work is as a mum to two young children who keep me very busy. I love listening to music (everything from pop to blues music), it has had a profound impact on my life by helping me cope with the challenges that can get thrown at us. I used to play a lot of sport, but following an injury 7 years ago, I am more likely to be found on the side lines of a rugby match!
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.
Ann Conroy
Faculty Roles:
Support Staff
Ann has over 20 years experience working in human resources at management level predominately in the multinational environment across EMEA. Ann is a qualified Adult Guidance Counsellor and most recently trained as a Professional Coach through Aspire Coach Training in 2024. A real desire to support people move forward in their lives and careers with a path that aligns to their passion. Currently working in HR and coaching clients.
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)
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.
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.
John Fleming
Faculty Roles:
Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
ICF PCC and EMCC Senior Prac & ITCA
I am a credentialed coach, coach mentor, coach trainer, coach supervisor and personal & professional development facilitator. I focus on empowering individuals, teams and organisations to learn, develop and grow. I have 15+ years of experience in operational delivery and implementing transformational change in multiple sectors as an organisational consultant. I would describe myself as a courageous professional who is well versed on the complexity of systems and culture. I bring my past professional experience together with cutting edge organisational psychology, coaching and coaching tools `that forms a multidisciplinary approach leading to transformational growth. I embrace the power of change & transformation to create 360° value for my clients, their teams and organisations. No matter who you are, no matter where you are in the world, I can support you to shape your future and to create clearly defined, measurable growth. We can co-create and co-innovate solutions that help you better connect with people in your life, improve your resilience, and drive sustainable growth. For more information connect with me on LinkedIn.
Karen Hayes
Faculty Roles:
Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer
Coaching Credential:
PCC
Karen is a bold, heart-led coach who works with soulful entrepreneurs — wellness practitioners, grassroots changemakers, retreat creators, and purpose-led creatives.
She helps them stop shrinking, back themselves fully, and build the work that truly matters.
Karen’s mission?
To help people cut through self-doubt, take action on what lights them up, and finally say yes to their real work — not just dream about it.
She wants everyone she works with to fall back in love with Mondays, doing what they’re here to do.
Karen brings extensive international coaching experience, from high-growth startups to global organisations, small businesses, and community projects.
She is the proud Co-founder of Connect-A-Coach — an award-winning initiative that offered free coaching to frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic — and a Lead Mentor for trainee coaches on ICF-accredited programs.
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.
Liz Bromley
Faculty Roles:
Support Staff
Liz has over 16 years’ experience in the area of Human Resource Management and has worked across corporate, consultancy and not-for-profit sectors. Liz has spent the last 10 years in Senior Leadership roles at Executive Officer level. Fueled by a passion for developing people and a particular interest in leadership development, personal development and personal transformation, Liz completed a Master’s in Leadership & Strategy and then went on to train as a professional coach with Aspire Coach Training. In 2024 Liz attained a diploma in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Liz continues to work part time as Head of HR & Quality for a disability organisation and also runs her own coaching and business consultancy on a part time basis. As a professional coach Liz aims to facilitate personal growth and transformation, empowering clients to access their true potential, develop a clear actionable vision for the future, identify what might get in their way and develop strategies to overcome this. Liz offers personal coaching as well as executive and leadership development coaching.
Marguerite Slyne
Faculty Roles:
Support Staff
Married with two daughters and living in Dublin but originally from the country. Graduated from UCD and worked as an Engineer for a few years before studying to be an accountant and have worked as a financial controller for the last 20 years. In my spare time I like reading, knitting, hiking and socialising with friends.
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.
Stephen Clements
Faculty Roles:
Coach Trainer, Coach Mentor, Credentialed Observer, Coaching Supervisor, Performance Evaluator
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 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.
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!