About
Mary is one of Ireland’s first and most experienced coaches and coach mentors with over 9 years full-time in the profession since she qualified with the LBCAI in Ireland and Coachville
, USA in 2001. She specialises in executive transition and career management: from high potential career development and stepping into new roles through to mid-life career change, breaking the glass ceiling and retirement planning. She has graduated as a supervisor for coaches in Advanced Supervision from the University of Middlesex.
Mary has two core passions which define her professional life: her passion for helping people move from great to brilliant – whatever their background, and from powerlessness to powerfulness - complemented by a jargon-free, down to earth approach. Her second passion is the profession of coaching: as founder of the Coach Centre in Dublin and co-founder of the Life and Business Coaches Association of Ireland, Mary has been responsible for mentoring and training many of Ireland’s best coaches and positively impacting the careers and businesses of hundreds of individuals through coaching.
Experience
Clients include The Law Society, AIB, Ulster Bank, Institute of Engineers, Dublin Chamber of Commerce, and Accenture where her coaching interventions were instrumental in preparing senior managers to become partners. She is also on the faculty for VHI corporate training, providing facilitation on work-life balance and retirement planning to a wide range of corporations in the Dublin area including Bridgestone, Oracle ….. and contributes regularly to media features on personal excellence and coaching, including Stellar magazine and Ireland AM.
Accreditations
Mary is accredited in a number of behavioural psychology models and psychometrics which are integrated into to her interventions: Belbin Team Role profiling, Insights profiling, Baron EQ and she is a Master NLP practitioner. Prior to becoming a coach Mary has an entrepreneurial and marketing background, having set up and managed Pavlova Pantry, an Australian style restaurant business which she ran successfully for 9 years and for which she won the ESB Innovative Business Ideas Competition in 1988.