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A Global Network of Executive Coaches

A Global Network of Executive Coaches

For multi-national leaders and organisations, our exceptional network of Executive Coaches reaches across Europe. We stand alongside you, offering a cross-cultural viewpoint and country-specific knowledge via programmes available in a variety of languages while giving you one seamless point of contact.

Our Goal

No two leaders or businesses are the same. By approaching each one with a customised programme, our Executive Coaches are experts at creating supportive yet challenging relationships with both individuals and teams.

Whatever your agenda, our goal is to empower organisations with the ability to become more successful, more sustainable and better places for people to work.

Our services include:

– EXECUTIVE COACHING
– TEAM COACHING
– GROUP COACHING
– ORGANISATIONAL TRANSFORMATION
– BOARD PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

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Our Coaches

As a network of multicultural coaches and sparring partners with experience in leadership at the highest levels, we bring a transnational mindset and first-hand expertise to our thinking and coaching. So, whether you’re a senior leader, group or team, we can tailor our approach to your needs and context, combining knowledge of individual countries with a global perspective that supports you on your onward journey to success.

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HUNGARY

Zoltán Ardai

UK

Vonnie Alexander

UK

Nick Brown

UK

Lynne Chambers

IRELAND

Mark Cahalane

IRELAND

Mary Curtis

UK

Ed Dulson

UK

Hilary Douglas

UK

Alistair Forbes

UK

Pete Freeman

HUNGARY

Júlia Galántai

UK

Joy Harcup

UK

Nigel Holland

IRELAND

Eugene McCague

IRELAND

Colm Murphy

UK

Una O’Brien

UK

Toy Odiakosa

IRELAND

Pat O’Doherty

IRELAND

Barbara Patton

IRELAND

Kate Quane

UK

Janet Rubin

UK

Peter Shaw

UK

Louise Sheppard

IRELAND

Ian Slattery

UK, SPAIN

Jane Upton

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HUNGARY

Zoltán Ardai

Zoltan is an accredited Senior Practioner coach/mentor and international accreditation assessor with more than 15 years of professional experience. He finds joy in leaders’ growth, in accompanying them on a piece of their roads to mastery – individually and in groups. He coaches in Hungarian and English.

UK

Vonnie Alexander

With 15 years of experience holding Board positions and a decade in coaching, Vonnie’s sessions are dynamic, energising, and, above all, results-driven. She uses her rich business background, entrepreneurial spirit, and unerring interest in people to challenge and champion in equal measure. Driven by her commitment to bring about lasting change, she offers inspiring coaching sessions to individuals, teams and Boards across a wide range of sectors.

UK

Nick Brown

Nick’s practical approach draws from considerable experience over 40 years in the public and private sectors at senior board levels, in the UK and internationally. His focus is on listening, questioning and challenging to achieve greater leadership performance. Nick works with senior executives, NEDs, emerging leaders and high-potential clients.

UK

Lynne Chambers

With over 30 years of leadership experience in global businesses, Lynne has an empathetic and practical coaching approach, focused on achieving measurable outcomes for her clients. She applies her own experience of leadership in complex organisations to enable her clients to achieve sustainable growth. Clients praise Lynne for her stretching, supportive & insightful coaching style.

IRELAND

Mark Cahalane

Authenticity is at the heart of Mark’s coaching philosophy, shaped by his career journey and leadership roles.

IRELAND

Mary Curtis

Mary’s approach to coaching is supportive, client-centred and focused on enabling personal and professional change

UK

Ed Dulson

Bringing experience within global technology firms and founding a tech business, Ed particularly enjoys working with leaders in international roles who are taking on bigger challenges. Coaching for 25 years and having lived and worked in Asia for 5 years, Ed has a deep understanding of leaders working across cultures.

UK

Hilary Douglas

Hilary has wide experience of coaching leaders and teams in public and private organisations. Her coaching approach constantly adapts to the individual’s needs, personality and environment. She has written extensively about leadership, drawing on her own experience as an executive and non-executive Board member.

UK

Alistair Forbes

Alistair has over 30 years Leadership experience with 20 years as MD/CEO of International technology businesses. Following completing a Masters Degree in Executive Coaching, Alistair has spent the last 12 years as a Praesta Coach. His preferred approach to coaching is Problem/Solution focused with a challenging yet supportive style.

UK

Pete Freeman

Pete is a highly experienced Coach and Board Reviewer.  With a background as a Chartered Banker, a Derivatives trader and a Business owner, Pete creates an environment that allows you to question and explore your assumptions and thinking from different perspectives fostering well considered decisions and better outcomes.

HUNGARY

Júlia Galántai

After almost twenty years in the multinational automotive industry as a senior executive in IT, change management and HR, she has been working for almost ten years as an integrative coach and mentor with leaders and their teams from different sectors, supporting them in their professional careers and on their journey to leadership excellence.

UK

Joy Harcup

With a commercial dispute resolution background, Joy also brings board-level experience of strategic reviews and change programmes. She coaches senior leaders in blue-chip multinationals to start-ups, public and third-sector organisations. She has co-written The Secret Life of Boards and is a former President of the UK Board of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the largest global coaching professional body.

UK

Nigel Holland

Nigel’s coaching is informed by his extensive senior international leadership experience at the highest organisational levels. As a trusted sounding board to executives, teams, and Boards across a wide variety of business sectors, he is renowned for warmly offering a fresh point of view that quickly helps leaders discover new possibilities to move forward.

IRELAND

Eugene McCague

Eugene combines his experience of leading one of Ireland’s top professional firms, his commercial acumen and extensive board experience.

IRELAND

Colm Murphy

Colm is a Master-Accredited coach with over 20 years’ experience of designing and delivering development programmes to global audiences across the public and private sectors.

UK

Una O’Brien

Una’s practice focuses on leaders across the UK Government, the National Health Service, the UK Parliament and regulatory bodies.  A former top Civil Servant herself, Una brings to coaching a contextual understanding of high-consequence political environments with the pressures of ethical decision making, difficult trade-offs and public accountability.

UK

Toy Odiakosa

With over 2-decades as a coaching psychologist and executive coach, Toy aims to co-create proactive, optimistic, person-centred and results focused spaces. Drawing on 14 years’ City of London legal experience, she gets tremendous satisfaction supporting senior and emerging leaders dealing with unrelenting business and personal pressures to achieve their full potential while being their authentic selves.

IRELAND

Pat O’Doherty

Pat, an accredited Executive Coach, led the ESB as CEO through a period of transformational change of an organisation of 7500 people.

IRELAND

Barbara Patton

An executive coach with a strong corporate background and the ability to support and challenge her clients to deliver results.

IRELAND

Kate Quane

Kate’s ability to relate in a “real world” way to the dynamics of business and people leadership underpins an insightful coaching style.

UK

Janet Rubin

Drawing on her 30-year career as a Human Resources Director and her extensive non-executive career, Janet brings a rich level of experience to her coaching. She has coached CEOs, COOs, and senior Directors in over 30 organisations. She is also a Partner at Praesta UK, where she co-leads the Board Performance Practice.

UK

Peter Shaw

With experience spanning six continents, Peter has coached CEOs of global businesses, public sector bodies and charities, as well as working extensively with leadership teams.  He is a Visiting Professor at HE institutions in the UK and Canada, has written more than 30 influential books. He held three DG posts in the UK Government.

UK

Louise Sheppard

Louise is a highly experienced coach who has worked with more than 100 organisations around the world.  She is known for being direct, calm, supportive, challenging and inspiring.  Louise has held leadership roles in Unilever Plc and a management consultancy and has been a trustee of a national charity.

IRELAND

Ian Slattery

Ian is an accredited coach with over 30 years’ experience in working with and leading teams to deliver major business transformation programmes

UK, SPAIN

Jane Upton

Based in Spain, Jane is also part of the UK team.  She is an accredited Master Executive Coach with more than 20 years of coaching experience.  She works with leaders and teams, focusing on enhancing their ability to lead effectively in complex situations.  Jane coaches in English and Spanish.

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