Kelly Agnew - Leadership Consultant
Kelly is both an experienced executive and a successful executive coach having completed a Masters degree in personal and management coaching from University College Cork in 2022. Prior to moving toward coaching, Kelly spent more than 20 years leading teams in the pharmaceutical / clinical research and development industry across a number of business units. Her background has been primarily in project management and she is PMP and Prosci certified. Kelly was the head of the Program Management Office (PMO) for a large multinational company. In this role, she led a large global function and also spent a significant part of her time as a thought partner for senior executives and their leadership teams in a complex organisational environment, supporting their employee engagement profile. Having spent almost 20 years being homebased, Kelly is an expert in virtual facilitation and has developed and led successful cultural renovation programs for people-leaders across the globe virtually as well as having facilitated in-person conferences for project management professionals around the world. Kelly is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, having been an executive sponsor and long-time ally for several employee resource groups as well as a culture advisor to senior leaders. She has held several leadership roles in sports clubs, including women’s officer, race director and sustainability advisor, and has undergone further leadership training with Sports Ireland, Triathlon Ireland and Mountaineering Ireland. She has completed training in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with SETU – advocating for inclusion work, life, and sport too.
Qualifications and Certifications
Accredited ‘Strengths Profile’ Practitioner – Centre of Applied Positive
Psychology 2019
o International NLP Trainer Certification – Dr. Tad James Australia 2006
o Dip. Performance Coaching – Newcastle College 2005
o British Home Office Trainers Certification – UK Police 2004
o Cert. Counselling – University of Leicester 2003
o Cert. Psychology, Philosophy and Sociology – Milltown Institute Dublin 1993