Dr. Celine Mullins – CEO

Dr. Celine Mullins – CEO

Dr. Celine Mullins has over 15 years’ experience as a Psychologist, Coach and Learning Consultant working across private and public organisations and institutions.

Utilising the most up to date research and information from the intersection between neurobiology, psychology, neuroscience and psychology, Celine creates coaching and learning experiences that give people the tools to develop their ‘soft’ skills including Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Communication, and Resilience. Celine also works with teams and organisations to instill high performance, to improve culture and climate, and with her team, creates video and award-winning virtual reality learning solutions.

Celine teaches the Cognitive Behavioural Coaching Module of the MSc in Personal and Management Coaching, University College Cork (annually since 2015).

She has published two books with Oak Tree Press; “Our Learning Brain” and “Developing Learning Habits“. These books support readers to understand and overcome blocks to learning and habit change and provide practical advice, tools, and techniques that can be put into practice immediately

Celine also designed and facilitates the ‘Skills for Growth Coaching Programme’ which takes participants through a process of positive change in their personal or professional lives, so that they can apply that process again and again themselves or with others.

Celine obtained her BA (Hons) in Psychology at University College Dublin and her Ph.D at Trinity College Dublin. She also has a Certificate in Training and Development, Diploma in Statistics, Diploma in Personal and Executive Coaching, Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Certificate in The  Neuroscience of Change,  has studied Transpersonal Leadership Coaching with Leadershape (www.leadershapeglobal.com).

 

 

 

 

Janet Kane

Janet Kane is an Executive Coach and also holds the role of Client Servicing and Accounts Manager with Adaptas. She holds a Diploma in Coaching with Neuroscience from the Positive Success Group and a BA in Business Studies, with a Finance specialism, from DCU. Janet is a licensed, accredited practitioner coach with the World Association of Coaching with Neuroscience (WACN).

Janet has a special interest in helping her coaching clients to positively focus, to believe in themselves and their potential, to successfully navigate challenging situations and to improve their interpersonal relationships in the workplace. She delicately uncovers the truth in the challenges clients are facing and invites them to explore new perspectives and ways forward.

Janet acutely listens to understand, always with an empathetic but very pragmatic ear and encourages clients to push through the obstacles in their path to meaningful change and personal success.

Janet also brings a strong financial services background, where she has gained extensive corporate experience and an abundance of interpersonal skills. She has over 12 years’ experience working in both the private and public sector, having held varied senior roles in fund accounting and financial reporting with both multi-national and homegrown financial service organisations, and then switching to a prudential supervisory role in the regulation of the funds industry in Ireland. Throughout her financial services career, Janet successfully managed high performing and cohesive teams and attended key stakeholder and client meetings.

Annika McGivern

Annika is a Performance, Sport and Exercise Psychologist. Coming from a high-performance equestrian sport background, she has gained over ten years professional coaching experience…

Annika is a Mental Performance Consultant and Coach, specialising in Sport and Performance Psychology. Coming from a high-performance equestrian sport background, she has gained over ten years professional coaching experience. Combining this experience with a BA of Psychology from the University of Victoria and a MSc of Sport and Exercise Psychology from Ulster University, she delivers highly practical solutions for teams and individuals with a focus on optimal performance and wellbeing outcomes. Annika brings insights about performance, leadership and communication from a sport context and successfully applies them to a business context, specializing in resilience, mindset, communication and presentation skills. Annika also delivers specialized training for personal trainers and gym owners to help bring the benefits of exercise psychology to the gym environment. Annika is a guest lecturer in Cognitive Behavioural Coaching on the UCC Masters in Personal and Management Coaching programme. She is a firm believer in promoting wellbeing through sport and business and has conducted research on current mental health challenges in equestrian sport. Annika also enjoys writing about performance psychology and occasionally appears as a guest blogger for Adaptas.

Eibhlin Johnston

Eibhlin is an author, speaker, executive coach and highly experienced facilitator. She has 30 years’ experience working in blue-chip organisations across of range of business areas. Eibhlin is a Director of The Resiliency Hub which provides resilience and wellness coaching and training across a range of levels and businesses. She has 15 years’ coaching and training experience across a broad client base. Eibhlin brings her experience as a senior manager to her training. She delivers highly interactive and practical relevant training on a range of topics, including resilience, management skills, communication and strategic change initiatives. She was the lead of the Women’s Network in JP Morgan and was appointed as a senior mentor in the Bank. Her book, Gut Throat Leadership – Bouncing Back is an exploration of leadership and the way we think and lead with resilience. Eibhlin qualified with a BA Hons in Economics in 1990. She has a Diploma in Personal and Executive Coaching, is a Licensed Practitioner of NLP and a facilitator of the iheart Resiliency Training Programme. Eibhlin is certified with the Workplace Resilience and Wellbeing (WRAW), a psychometric measure of resilience and its impact on wellbeing for people in work.  She is a Senior Practitioner accredited with the EMCC and sits on the Council of the EMCC in Ireland.  

 

Alistair McBride

Al is an experienced entrepreneur starting businesses in fields as diverse as online video production, e-learning, art consultancy, history and tourism and website development.

Following a foundation in psychotherapy and counselling, he moved into Strategic Intervention Coaching, a highly results directed synthesis of multiple psychological schools and approaches. The balance of empathy and creativity with practical, actionable, outcome focused strategies greatly suits his personality and philosophy.

In addition to delivering group training and coaching with Adaptas in corporate organisations and governmental bodies such as Compu B, Phorest, the IMI, ISI, CIB and Maynooth University, Alistair privately coaches business owners and management. He enjoys working with groups and one-to-one, both in person and online. Resilience training and Stress Management are two key areas of particular interest, as well as sustainable behaviour change and increased productivity through peak performance psychology.

He has focused his knowledge in resilience, stress management and the resulting improvements in productivity and happiness into a prototype online video training course called ‘The RISE Method’ (Resilience, Insight, Strategy, Effectiveness).

Alistair is on the Facilitator panel for UCD’s Innovation Academy in their post-graduate course ‘Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’. He has lectured in Cognitive Behavioural Coaching on the UCC Masters in Coaching programme and is on the recommended coaches list at UCC.

Anne-Marie Macken

Anne-Marie is an EMCC accredited coach. She is a qualified financial advisor and accountant who worked for 15 years at Bank of Ireland. In 2020, she founded…

Anne-Marie is an EMCC accredited coach. She is a qualified financial advisor and accountant who worked for 15 years at Bank of Ireland. In 2020, she founded Money Coaching Ireland to empower individuals towards financial well-being. Combining her financial expertise and coaching background, Anne-Marie delivers workshops on financial awareness and empowerment.

Through Money Coaching Ireland, Anne-Marie has delivered coaching, personal and business finance workshops to over 2,000 individuals in 1-1 and group settings. She has written extensively and commented in a number of national media publications on personal finance and money mindset topics. As Head of Customer Financial Analysis at Bank of Ireland, Anne-Marie designed and implemented a comprehensive training programme to enhance the financial analysis capability of the Team. Combined with a robust QA process, the training enabled the delivery of key insights on customers’ financial performance for credit assessment purposes. During her 15-year career at Bank of Ireland, Anne-Marie engaged in several initiatives to enhance the well-being of her colleagues including the facilitation of mindfulness courses.

In her coaching practice, she integrates mindfulness and positive psychology to guide clients toward a more purposeful life. Anne-Marie lives near the Phoenix Park in Dublin with her husband and two children. She actively volunteers with her local GAA club and school to support children’s well-being and foster a sense of community.

To maintain personal well-being, Anne-Marie engages in sport, yoga and the outdoors.

Camille Donegan

Camille is a Virtual Reality consultant and content producer with 15 year parallel careers in both technology and the arts (theatre, film, radio).

Camille is a creative producer across multiple mediums – video, radio, theatre and produces our VR interactive corporate training experiences.

She is a qualified Scrum Master and IT Trainer (Jeb diploma) with an MSC in Computer Science.

Since discovering Virtual Reality and realising the potential for this immersive medium, she has been researching and developing concepts for how Virtual Reality can impact our experiences at work and at play.

Camille has ran VR and AR (Augmented Reality) workshops for clients including: Shinawil (TV production company),  Xwerx (UX design company), iNavtas Technologies (Fintech company), National College of Ireland and the Centre for Creative Practices. She also lectures on a Transmedia postgraduate course in Griffith College.

She was featured on the Irish Times’ Women’s Podcast and panelled the VR panel discussion at Guth Gafa international documentary film festival.

Camille runs a monthly VR meetup at Filmbase called VR Community Ireland. See https://www.facebook.com/groups/vrcommunityireland/

Niamh NiDhonaill

Niamh combines 20 years’ experience in business with a Masters in Personal and Management Coaching to bring a professional approach to her executive coaching, training and facilitation programmes.

Managing at the coalface of a large international organisation,  Niamh has worked in sales, marketing and general management positions at a senior level. Through this experience Niamh understands the intricacies of corporate culture both locally and internationally. Niamh’s role became more focussed on developing and mentoring colleagues to achieve their full potential and reach targets set personally or by the company.

Over the years Niamh has carved out a niche in supporting clients as they transition from manager to leader. Research shows that such transitions are challenging and exciting, full of opportunities and threats. The move from manager to leader, can lead to success and fulfilment, but can also be a time where seasoned professionals can feel vulnerable and alone.

By creating self-awareness and focussing on understanding the role, focus and  behaviours needed to be successful during this transition, Niamh supports the new leader as they navigate the first three to six months in the new role, offering insights and observations that can enable the new leader to develop and  thrive. 

Transition coaching gives the client space and time to reflect and finetune what needs to be done to be successful and supports the client through this exciting yet sometimes daunting time.

Kelly Agnew

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

Jennifer O’Dea

Jennifer is an Executive Coach and Facilitator specialising in Forum Theatre and Corporate Role Play. Jennifer trained as an actress and worked in that field for 20 years.  During this time she gained valuable insight into what Presence means and how to maximize your impact in a space using your body and voice.  She brings these skills to her work to help people reach their potential in this regard.  In addition to that she is an accomplished Executive Coach, Facilitator and Corporate Role Player working in all levels of industry in Ireland – such as Banking, Law, Education, Civil Service and Professional Services. She believes passionately in the power of coaching to enhance performance and achieve specific goals. In her Role Play work she supports executive learning to enable employees and leaders alike to manage difficult conversations, enhance their communication skills and develop their leadership potential. She is particularly experienced in the discipline of Forum Theatre having studied with the Brazilian Augusto Boal who originated the system.  She is a regular facilitator of Forum Theatre workshops where groups and teams come together to problem solve, team build and work on particular communication skills.

Joseph Quinn

Joseph is a consultant, facilitator and coach. Working at multi-levels within
organisations, Joseph enables professionals to grow their skills and confidence in
leadership, enhanced communication, executive presence, strengths and presenting.
With a career journey starting in Dublin as a trainee Priest for 3 years, 10 years as a
Police Officer in the UK, 11 years as a business owner in New Zealand, Joseph has
returned to Ireland and continues to grow the services he offers to his clients.
Joseph’s passion, expertise and dedication is clearly shown in his practical and
action orientated programmes. Joseph’s abilities to engage, facilitate, support,
challenge and enable participants to achieve continual results, creates a continual
and lasting return, long after the programme has concluded.

Over the past 20 years, Joseph has gained significant experience within the
Financial, Legal, Insurance, Policing, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Recruitment
and Gaming industries. Some of his clients include Grant Thornton, Deloitte, AIB,
Paddy Power Betfair, McDonalds, QBE Insurance, IAG and Riot Games. With
Adaptas, Joseph works regularly with FBD Insurance, A&L Goodbody, Eversheds
Sutherland, CPL Recruitment and Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Coaching & Mentoring
Joseph has gained considerable experience providing professional coaching and
mentoring for clients at all organisational levels from: ‘C’ level, senior leaders,
directors, senior managers, managers, staff and graduates. His engaged, practical
approach enables clients to see immediate results and to continue self-developing
long after the coaching has ended.

Qualifications and Certifications
o 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