Meet our Diverse Team of
Experts

Mary is an accredited Executive Coach, certified in systemic business coaching and, as a member of the Career Development Institute has strong expertise in career coaching and facilitation.  With a degree in Marketing and Business Management, Mary has 15 years’ experience in sales, marketing and business development roles in the hospitality, tourism and electronics industries, both domestically and abroad. She has mentored and coached a large number of start-up and small business owners in the past 14 years.

Mary’s coaching style is engaging, relaxed and curious, and very client centred. Supportive and challenging in equal measure, helping the client venture forth into unfamiliar situations and equipping them with the confidence and skills they need to maximise opportunities. 

With over 20 years’ experience in executive career and performance coaching, Tony specialises in career and performance interventions for senior managers and management teams to help them reach their full potential. He offers additional expertise in developing innovation cultures in organisations. Tony has specialist experience in coaching chief executives, senior civil and public servants and senior management teams.

He has global experience in supporting companies and individuals at all levels in managing career and organisational change. He is an expert in facilitating creative thinking and problem solving and in using lateral thinking tools for live projects and problems.

As an executive coach and facilitator, Bernadette has several years’ experience working with groups and individuals in the areas of career transition, career management, career development and performance management. Results focused, Bernadette uses her energy and positive attitude to motivate individuals and teams to help them reach their full potential.

Mark is a Harmonics specialist in the areas of Executive and Senior Leadership Coaching

He has over 25 years stakeholder engagement experience including leading the world’s largest international consultancy’s corporate practice across EMEA and as part of the leadership team of a leading FTSE 100 multinational. Mark has experience in advising at board level and helping leadership team members to engage and influence across complex internal, external landscapes and in the remote world of work. Mark has a particular interest in helping authentic leaders develop their personal brand and communication and influencing skills.

A change and transformation specialist, he has global experience in leading complex employee engagement, and cultural transformation and business integration projects. He helps business leaders turn strategy into stories and messaging which influence behaviour.

Mark is a high-level coach, corporate communications and employee engagement consultant and a conflict resolution specialist focused on dynamics which block high performance.

Anne Caulfield is an accredited Executive Coach, certified Emotional Intelligence Coach and certified mediator. With over 20 years’ experience in blue chip companies in the IT, Healthcare and Telecommunication sectors, a cornerstone to Anne’s professional success is her aptitude for strategic thinking and her ability to lead and adapt within diverse business environments.

Anne’s signature strength as a coach is her ability to connect with her clients providing support and challenge, inspiring action from her clients to reach their full potential. This is supported by her strong business experience together with her academic qualifications.

An experienced coach and business entrepreneur, Gerry initially qualified as a Chartered Accountant, working in the Financial Services and Banking Software Sectors, before setting up two separate businesses – banking consultancy and software – which he grew successfully in both domestic and international markets before divesting to a US multinational.  He subsequently worked as Head of Sales for EMEA and Indian markets. A subsequent change in career direction saw Gerry training and working as a teacher and subsequently commence his coaching practice.

With this diverse background, Gerry’s brings business acumen, a deep understanding of change (both personal and organisational) and highly developed communication skills to his clients delivering high quality coaching solutions.

Emma stepped into her role as a Business Support Specialist at Harmonics in April 2024, she brings a wealth of marketing expertise. Her prior roles involved spearheading marketing campaigns that significantly boosted brand visibility and customer engagement.

At Harmonics, Emma leverages her marketing acumen to enhance business support functions, focusing on optimising workflows and supporting the team in achieving organisational goals. Her proactive approach enables her to anticipate challenges and implement preemptive solutions, driving continuous improvement across all business operations.

Liam Croke is one of the most trusted and expert names in independent personal financial planning advice in Ireland today. Before co-founding Harmonics Financial with John Fitzgerald, Liam held several management positions with leading financial service providers in Ireland for some 25 years. Liam provides one to one personal financial planning for executives in leading corporates and facilitates group workshops in all areas of personal financial planning for staff.

Liam is also the brainchild behind the new award winning on line financial education portal for employees, My|Money. He is a published author on personal finances, contributes regularly on national TV, radio and newspaper. He has been invited to present to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social and Family Affairs – the only person to have been asked to contribute where he was not representing a particular group or organisation.

Mary joined Harmonics in 2021 as a Career Coach with significant experience in working with individuals and organisations in the career transition and career management space. In 2022, Mary also assumed the role of Programme Manager with Harmonics, providing support in the areas of client program delivery and business operations.

Mary has worked in the Health Service for over 15 years, most recently as a Senior Manager applying her skills and knowledge in areas such as change management, transformational & purpose driven leadership, regulation, collaborative team working and people development.

Mary has also worked in the university and voluntary sectors.

Diana Dawson is an accredited Master Coach with the Association for Coaching, and a qualified Career Coach, Career Counsellor and Career Psychologist with 20 years’ experience in helping professional people to be happy, successful and fulfilled at work.

Diana’s signature strength is to help people with their careers to discover who they are, what they need, and how to achieve a meaningful and happy working life.

Paul Delahunt is a highly trusted, skilled, inspirational, and energetic transformational leadership coach who specialises in coaching leaders of technical teams to reach their highest potential and maximize their team’s performance.

Paul brings a unique blend of 25+ years’ experience of leading large manufacturing and engineering teams in high performing, highly automated manufacturing environments together with 12+ years’ transformational coaching which enables him to provide highly effective coaching support to leaders of technical teams.

With over 20 years’ of international experience of managing Fortune 50 clients and teams, Neil coaches executives and groups in tactical development (leadership and career interventions) as well as more strategic transformation initiatives (employee engagement, succession planning).  He has a proven capacity to establish and maintain key relationships bringing them into the heart of the strategic change process to directly impact and transform performance and results.

Fiachra joined Harmonics as General Manager in 2011. A chartered accountant, Fiachra has extensive cross-functional experience and has previously operated at Board level, in a multinational environment, in both Commercial and Finance Director roles. A qualified coach, he has specialist expertise in Project Management, career and business performance coaching for senior executives.

Lee-Ann is an accomplished recruitment professional with extensive experience in sourcing commercial & technical talent.

With a proven record of successful placement across the Shared Services, Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Life science and Pharmaceutical sectors and insight in a variety of geographies across the country makes Lee-Ann an astute and well-rounded recruitment contact.

Lee-Ann also has an interest in high niche recruitment for startups and companies embarking on complex projects.

Born in County Limerick, John is proud to have started a local Business that has now become a Trusted National Name on People and Organisation Change. Since it’s inception in 2006, John has since built Harmonics to a team of over 30 coaches and change consultants. He is also the Managing Partner in Ireland for OI Global Partners a global career consultancy partnership with 225 offices across 28 offices worldwide. His passion is working with Organisations and individuals to help them anticipate Change and Future Proof.

He is the author of the book ‘Future Proof Your Career’ and has developed the Future Career Readiness methodology as a digital pulse measure for Organisations and individuals.

Melissa’s highly intuitive and personable approach combined with her strong commercial awareness and expertise of current industry trends are key factors in her success. Following the completion of a Marketing degree, Melissa worked in financial sales with Halifax, established and managed Morgan McKinley’s Life Sciences division in the Midwest before joining Harmonics Recruitment in 2009.

Caroline has over 11 years’ experience of working with people going through business change processes and has coached staff and management at all levels both in groups and in one-to-one situations. Caroline’s key skills are her ability to motivate people to want to change and the focus to implement it. She strongly believes that without these, it is not possible to move forward or make positive change. She is expert at identifying strengths in others and in helping them to make the best possible use of those strengths.

Frank specialises in three areas: leadership and the approaches to developing a Team; building relationships based on trust, thereby influencing customers and stakeholders; and managing our personal energies in work (and in life). In his work, he brings to bear his 34 years’ experience working in Multinational Corporations, including 12 years as a qualified coach.

Frank’s philosophy is that if you want to improve results then build relationships; and if you want to build relationships then improve the conversations. Based on this he researches and shares best practice in providing feedback, finding more time to think, to question and listen, and how to cope effectively when we are sometimes going flat out in life and in work.

A highly experienced and skilled executive and career coach, trainer and facilitator, Karen brings a passion to her coaching seeking to enable her clients achieve transformational and long-term sustainable change in their professional and private lives.

Before specialising in the coaching space, Karen worked for 10 years in the learning and development field and has extensive international experience in management roles in the recruitment industry.

A former CEO and Programme Manager with the Retirement Planning Council of Ireland, John is an acknowledged expert on issues relating to “The Third Age”. He has significant experience in designing and facilitating retirement planning programmes for both private and public sector clients. John has a keen knowledge of the range of Social Protection Programmes that are relevant to retirees.

Éadaoin joined Harmonics in January 2024 and supports the Contracting and Outsourced Payroll Services that Harmonics provides to our clients.  Éadaoin provides this service in a discrete and timely manner and, with her excellent communication and interpersonal skills, builds strong relationships with both clients and employees.  She is a Certified Accounting Technician with a Diploma in CIMA Management Accounting.  Éadaoin brings extensive experience in this client support role having worked in Finance and high-volume payroll departments in both multinational and SME environments.

Sue joined Harmonics in July 2011 as Financial Accountant. She has responsibility for all accounting functions at Harmonics and supports all aspects of the business. In addition she manages the Payroll Service offered to all our clients and provides this service in a discreet, confidential and timely manner while always maintaining a strong relationship with both client and employee. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has worked in the past with Deloitte in Dublin and KPMG in the Channel Islands.

William has worked in Human Resources for 38 years in Manufacturing industries covering Pharmaceuticals, Medical Device, Mining, Electronics and Textiles industry sectors with various blue-chip companies. With this diverse industry background, William brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in site start-ups, employee and industrial relations, change management, right sizing of organisations, mergers and acquisitions and most recently was involved in a site closure, having operated at senior leadership level for the last 25 years.

William is a graduate from the University of Limerick with Bachelor of Business Studies, Trinity College with a Master of Science in Organisational Behaviour and most recently William qualified as a Workplace Mediator.

Garrett joined Harmonics Financial as a Senior Financial Advisor in August 2023. He brings a wealth of experience from his various roles with leading financial service providers in Ireland since the early 1990’s.

Garrett guides clients through their financial journey, helping them to achieve their financial goals, and making financial advice as easy as possible to understand. Garrett loves that Harmonics Financial is a client centric environment and where the quality of the advice is what really matters.

Robin is a specialist in the areas of Executive and Senior Leadership Coaching and resolving interpersonal challenges within organisations.

He has over 30 years’ energy sector experience, including as Board Chair and CEO, where he played a key role in the transformation of the electricity market and power system.  Robin currently advises a number of organisations on strategy and performance at Board level and supports Chief Executives and Leadership Team members to engage and influence to grow and develop their businesses.

Robin’s coaching and mediation work focuses on high performance, enabling  Board members, CEOs and Executive achieve high-value outcomes.  He has a particular interest in resolving interpersonal issues which impair performance and partners with senior leaders to achieve agreed outcomes.

Robin has a particular interest in helping  leaders develop an authentic personal brand, improve interpersonal skills and lead high performance teams.

A native of Limerick, Liam has 20+ years’ experience in the Executive Search arena, partnering with a broad range of multinational and indigenous clients in sourcing leadership, senior management and “specialist” technical talent.

He has successfully completed his Certificate in Professional Coaching, is a member of the International Coaching Federation and holds a Diploma in HR Management.  Liam combines an in depth understanding of the jobs market from both an individual and employer perspective, together with a robust network, to deliver best in class career coaching support to clients.

Órla is an associate coach and facilitator with Harmonics specialising in supporting Harmonics clients in the area of Health & Wellbeing.

With over 11 years of experience working with diabetes patients for the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme, Órla has witnessed firsthand the profound impact of this and other chronic diseases on health and quality of life. She is passionate about empowering individuals to take control of their health through lifestyle changes, promoting happier and healthier lives.

By facilitating interactive discussions, engaging educational content, and group coaching sessions, she creates a dynamic and supportive environment where participants can thrive and take meaningful steps toward transforming their health and well-being.

Órla has an MSc in Positive Health Coaching – Lifestyle Medicine and Positive Psychology, through the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

An experienced business leader of over 30 years, including 15 at Board level, and a qualified Executive Coach and facilitator, Niall brings a wealth of experience to his coaching practice.

As Managing Director of KBC’s project finance business, Niall led the strategic direction of KBC’s global project finance operations in Ireland, UK, Europe, US, Asia and Australia.  In this role, he worked with executives at all levels dealing with complex business, political and personnel issues, transitional challenges and working with a variety of different management styles and cultures.

Niall’s clients gain considerable value from his engaging coaching style combined with his executive and board experience. He brings a sound framework, a clear process as well as application of established tools.

Niall is a results-oriented person and applies this approach with his coaching clients, to help them identify goals and achieve clear outcomes.

An accredited Career Coach and Facilitator, Máiréad has extensive experience in business and the IT industry having previously worked in the multinational, public, education, community and voluntary sectors. As a Professional Registered Member of the Career Development Institute (UK), she holds a QCGD in Career Development, a Post-Grad in Career Guidance, and a Diploma in Coaching along with other academic awards.

Combining her wide sectoral experience with her in depth understanding of the career decision making process, Máiréad helps her clients careers’ transition, develop and grow in the way that works best for them.

A Human Resource Management graduate of the University of Limerick and a full member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Chartered MCIPD) since 2002. Currently providing business coaching, training and HR consultancy support to businesses in the Mid West Region. 

Valerie brings considerable experience in HR, specifically in the areas of Recruitment, Interviewing, HR Strategy, HR Policy development and implementation. Valerie also provides training in the areas of time management, presentation, communication and interview skills. As a coach, Valerie provides career transition support – 1:1 CV and Interview Skills, Social Media for Job Seekers. In 2016, Valerie was the winner of the International Coach Federation Ireland “Career Coach of the Year” award.

A highly skilled executive coach, facilitator and organisation change consultant, Valerie brings a wealth of experience from the corporate sector having held senior leadership roles in large multinationals over a period of 25 years.

Valerie is known for her intellectual rigour and, as a trusted partner, offers insights into organisational, team and individual issues and brings a practical approach to delivering sustainable change for individuals and organisations she works with.

With her depth of commercial experience, Valerie quickly understands the business needs and facilitates developing the optimal approach for enhanced business and individual performance.

As an experienced recruiter, Rachael understands the importance and necessity of finding a good fit between the company and individual. After graduating in Office Information Systems, Rachael worked in a variety of customer service and HR & Recruitment roles. She later established the commercial division of BDO Simpson Xavier Recruitment in the Midwest Region before joining Harmonics Recruitment to manage our Financial Recruitment division in 2012. 

An accredited executive coach, Mary supports individuals and groups in career change and transition in both private and public sectors.  Highly experienced and with a background in international banking and digital media, she has designed and delivered programmes around workforce mobilisation, career development and returners (to the workforce).

Mary’s key strengths include her ability to create space and build rapport quickly and easily to enable clients to engage and connect in a way that supports clarity in identifying issues. In exploring options, she encourages clients to become inquisitive and empowered to believe that change is possible. Reflections on values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours accelerate the learning and bring clients to a place where actionable steps become clear and the desire for change is strong.

Gerry is a skilled coach and facilitator with twenty four years of operations management and coaching experience in the food sector up to 2000 and in self-employment since then as a leadership/executive coach. He has a track record of leading significant business performance improvement within manufacturing operations, at home and abroad, through unleashing the potential and creativity of people within organisations.

Gerry brings an understanding and experience of the impact of organisations, as a system, on business and management performance and a particular focus of his work is helping leaders, at all levels, to deal effectively with this challenge as they develop their practice and skills.

An MCC (Master Credentialed Coach) with the ICF (International Coach Federation), Gerry is currently the only professional coach with this level of credential in Ireland.

Jill is a qualified Executive Coach, accredited Coach Supervisor with the Coaches Supervision Academy, Mental Fitness Coach and Mindfulness Teacher. She has over twenty years’ experience in helping professional people to manage their mind to access happiness, productivity and optimal performance in their lives.

Jill’s approach is to enable people to improve their success and happiness through using an operating system called “Positive Intelligence” alongside executive coaching, so her clients can get to the root cause of negative self-talk, build mental fitness and live the most authentic and productive version of themselves.

Niamh is an Accredited Professional Executive Leadership Coach, a Certified Systemic Team Coach and a Fellow of the Association for Coaching. She is a certified member of the British Psychological Society, for assessing personality in organisations and an EQ-i 2.0, Hogan, Dimensions and Multiview registered administrator.

Niamh also delivers ILM coaching qualifications and acts as a coaching supervisor to other professional executive coaches. She is certified in Design Thinking and Service Blue Printing methodology and facilitation.

An experienced Board Member, Niamh has served ten years as a Director at Association for Coaching Ireland (four years as Chair) and ten years as a Director of Women in Business NI, the largest business network for female entrepreneurs and business leaders in Northern Ireland.

An experienced executive career and business performance coach, Mary T specialises in helping individuals and groups to unlock their potential and break down barriers to achievement. With over 10 years’ experience working with leaders, senior and middle managers, Mary T is adept at supporting executives to make change happen in the face of adversity and when circumstances are difficult and demanding.

Having initially qualified as an electronic engineer, Ted subsequently gained over 33 years’ experience working in that industry gaining extensive experience as a business, people and technical manager.  This included 20 years’ coaching internally within Intel Corp.

An accredited coach with the International Coaching Federation, Ted combines his business expertise with his coaching experience providing the right blend of ‘hard business edge’ with soft business skills to deliver high quality coaching and facilitation to his clients.

A highly skilled and accredited executive coach and facilitator, Eileen has over 15 years’ experience delivering sustainable change for individuals and organisations she has worked with across multiple sectors.

With a depth of business experience and an ability to connect with people at all levels, Eileen works with organisations to champion a people-first agenda.

Quick to establish trust and rapport.  Extremely supportive in her role as coach and facilitator, she will also challenge her clients’ thinking appropriately based on her insights and training to encourage stretch in terms of personal growth and development.