My Executive Coach blog

My thoughts this week have turned to reflecting on amazing stories that have been shared with me recently.  Stories of resilience and pain and challenges and self-doubt.  Stories of change and transformation.  In a world that focuses on ‘big breakthroughs’, the truth is that change actually lies in the small, slow, tedious steps of showing […]

My sincere thanks to all my clients for your trust and confidence in the coaching process. May 2024 be a successful and fulfilling year for us all, I’m very much looking forward to working with you.

Looking forward to the kick off of DCU’s Structured Mentorship Program this year and the superb support from the Alumni team in promoting engagement within the global DCU Alumni community.  As I have been mentoring within corporate and start up organisations for over two decades, I strongly believe that Mentorship Programs are an L&D focus […]

As a follow on from National Enterprise Day and the wonderful events I attended, I was struck by the number of women I met who said they still lacked self-confidence professionally and that they struggled with imposter syndrome.  Not a new topic but one I was surprised to hear, especially as the audience was full […]

The word ‘listen’ contains the exact same letters as the word ‘silent’.  Now, isn’t that interesting. When a coach works with a client, guiding them through the conversation with powerful, exploring, open-ended questions, and uses the client’s own language to reinforce their goals, outcomes, plans, this is what it referred to as active, or “Level Two”, […]

Thanks to Arron Graffin,Player Development Manager at the GPA for an inspiring networking event at the first ever GPA Business Forum.  Especially insightful was the keynote speaker Liam Sheedy and the panellists Niall McNamee, Fionnuala Carr and Dean Siney for kindly sharing their learnings and journeys establishing their entrepreneurial businesses – wishing them every success for the future. #NetworkingForSuccess#Business #GPA #Network

January has been a month filled with plans, goals and renewed determination to make change happen.  I’ve been fortunate to work with a group of talented young professionals in workshops this month and they are inspiring.  Although I’m adverse to labels, they have unofficially identified as ‘high achievers’ and when asked what are the traits […]

As the DCU Mentorship Program ends for this academic year, we look back on the benefits to both mentors and mentees of participating and contributing to this purposeful initiative.  Huge appreciation to all at the DCU Alumni Office for supporting and promoting engagement within the global DCU Alumni community and the current DCU undergraduate students.  Already looking […]

The EMCC Global Research Conference is nearly here, so book your place for 8th September 2022 for this virtual event where the theme is Celebrating and Flourishing: A Dialogue Between Research and Practice in Coaching, Mentoring and Supervision.  This promises to be an interactive, knowledge exchange dialogue with panel discussions, drop-in sessions and thought leaders […]

Congratulations to all who contributed and attended the EMCC Global Research Conference last week – what an amazing event, with phenomenal speakers that included Professor Jonathan Passmore, Alison Mitchell, Dr Riza Kadilar, Nathalie Lerotić Pavlik, Dr Lise Lewis, Dr Suzy Green and Professor David Clutterbuck, Dr Travis Kemp, Professor David Lane and Dr Michael Cavanagh […]

The twelfth and final day of Christmas, January 6, was known in Ireland as Nollaig na mBan or Women’s Christmas or Little Christmas.  Traditionally it was a day of reward for women’s hard work over the Christmas season, and was a day off from all house work as traditional roles were supposed to be reversed in the […]

I’m truly delighted to have been included in the annual Dublin City University Voices Magazine this year and to have an opportunity to speak about my involvement with the DCU Alumni community.  Huge thanks to all at the DCU Alumni Office and Ross Munnelly for supporting and promoting engagement within the global DCU Alumni community. https://acexecutivecoach.com/https://www.dcu.ie/alumni/news/2021/nov/alumni-profile-angela-cooney DCU Business School #DCUAlumni 

I’m thrilled to be supporting the DCU Structured Mentorship Program this year and am looking forward to participating and contributing to this wonderful initiative. Huge thanks to all at the DCU Alumni Office and Ross Munnelly for supporting and promoting engagement within the global DCU Alumni community. https://acexecutivecoach.com/ DCU Business School #DCUAlumni #mentorshipprogram #mentoring #mentorship

Huge congratulations to EMCC Global for such a superb event at the 28th EMCC Global Mentoring, Coaching and Supervision conference this week! Fantastic networking opportunities with coaches from all over the world, and a huge thank you to all participants and presenters – especially our Research Development Advisory Workgroup – humbled and proud to be […]

Welcome to my blog, where I hope to share with you all the events, books, topics, questions and trends that I experience in my role as an Executive Coach. Lovely to have you with me on this journey!

The 10th Annual EMCC Conference is nearly here, so book your place on 30th September 2021 for this virtual event where the theme is inspiring diversity and inclusion.  Session topics will include burnout prevention and cure, building resilience and wellbeing, and leadership in a post COVID world.  Get your ticket on https://www.emccirelandconference.org/ And something else […]

Mentoring for Change, A Catalyst for Sustainable Transformation The speed of political, societal, economic, and technological changes presents opportunities and challenges to our professional practice as well as to the mentees who look to us to help navigate a path. Our mentees look to us to help them navigate a path, they expect us to […]

My sincere thanks to all my clients for your trust and confidence in the coaching process. May 2025 be a successful and fulfilling year for us all, I’m very much looking forward to working with you.