In Conversation With….

This month Wendy sits down to have a conversation with Caroline McKenna. In her early career, Caroline studied business, learning and development and personal management. She has a degree in business studies as well as diplomas in personal management and learning and development. Her career has been spent in sales management sales productivity and more recently coaching. Caroline is currently organisational coach for CDE global. A year ago Caroline set up her own business which she runs alongside her role at CDE.

Irene has worked independently as a consultant since 2009, specialising in leadership and organisation development. Prior to that, she was a senior leader across public and third sector organisations. Irene was the executive director of Human Resources with the Northern Ireland ambulance service.

I am in conversation with recent AoEC practitioners diploma graduate David Paulson. David has had a very varied career with two stints as Managing Director of a manufacturing SMEs in England, many years with GE capital and many years in academia (including a PhD undertaken between Cambridge and Harvard).

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NOTES AND RESOURCES
The British Academy, ‘Future of the Corporation’, The British Academy, 2021 <https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/future-of-the-corporation/> an extended series of lectures, workshops, and research, with the opportunity to participate in their free summit on Purposeful Business in Policy, Practice and Business Education, 22-24 September 2021: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/future-of-the-corporation/events/purpose-summit-september-2021/
Rune Todnem, EPICally MAD - Leadership Model Improving Society, TEDx Stavanger (Stavanger, 2019) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nno1faLhoWk> [accessed 4 August 2021]
Rune Todnem, ‘Leadership: In Pursuit of Purpose’, Journal of Change Management, 21.1 (2021), 30–44 <https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2021.1861698> Available for download here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14697017.2021.1861698?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Carney, Mark, Value(s): Building a Better World for All (London: William Collins, 2021), especially Chapter 12, ‘Values-Based Leadership’.
Christensen, Clayton M., ‘How Will You Measure Your Life?’, Harvard Business Review, 88.7/8 (2010), 46–51. Available for download here: https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life
Granville-Chapman, Katy, and Emmie Bidston, Leader: Know, Love and Inspire Your People(Bancyfelin: Crown House Publishing, 2020)
Henderson, Rebecca, Reimagining Capitalism (Portfolio Penguin, 2020)
Mayer, Colin, Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good, Illustrated Edition (Oxford, United Kingdom: OUP Oxford, 2018)
Mayer, Colin, The Future of the Corporation and the Economics of Purpose (Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, 16 November 2020) <https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3731539>. Available for download here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3731539Watton, Emma, Scott Lichtenstein, and Paul Aitken, ‘“Won’t Get Fooled Again”: How Personal Values Shape Leadership Purpose, Behavior and Legacy’, Journal of Management & Organization, 25.3 (2019), 414–29 <https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2019.19>. Available to read online here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332481156_'Won't_get_fooled_again'_How_personal_values_shape_leadership_purpose_behavior_and_legacy

I’m in conversation today with Denise Ni Cheallaigh.

Denise has been the company owner of Ni Cheallaigh Consulting for the last 2½ yrs.  This builds on 20 years experience across a broad range of roles – consultancy, senior level project management and operations, leadership of large global teams of 6-700 people, working with global organisations such as Citi, JPMorgan and HSBC.  Pretty impressive!

We first met in early 2020, when Denise signed up for the AoEC Practitioner Dip in Executive Coaching.

I’m delighted to have some time today, in conversation with Denise.  Our topic today is – ‘Covid and Coaching’!!  Where is the business world today, given over a year of living in this pandemic?  And where does coaching fit in?I begin by asking Denise how life and work has been for her, since our first lockdown here in Ireland in March 2020….

This second episode is a chat between myself and Ryan Connor. Ryan is the Director of Springvale Employment & Learning, an employment and learning provider in Belfast where he has been since March 2021. Ryan undertook the AoEC Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching in Sept 2020, graduating just before Christmas.

I’m in conversation today with a Roscha McDonald.

Roscha is the Director of Turning Point Technique.

She has an amazing background in social anthropology, person centred counselling, family- and outreach-work in N Ireland. She teaches Mindfulness in the workplace, she’s a trainer, a mediator, executive coach and career coach!