Our Members

Discover the breadth of capability and expertise of our members:

Name: Miriam Ahern                 
Email contact: mahern(at)alignmanagement.net
Company: Align Management Solutions
Website: www.alignmanagement.net  
          
Field of expertise:

  • Change Management
  • Human Resources
  • Organisation Development

Ideal clients: Public and private sector, any size

Products and services:

  • Consulting, Training, Facilitating and Coaching
  • Change initiatives
  • Organisational analysis
  • Strategy planning and implementation
  • Team-working
  • Management and staff development
  • People practices and policies
  • Performance management
  • Company/departmental merger and integration.

Summary bio:

Miriam Ahern has over 20 years’ experience in public and private sector organisations.  Her clients include HSE, Dept. Education, Pfizer Ireland, Calyx Group plc, eBay and Our Lady’s Hospice Ltd.

Name: Ciarán M Brady                
Email contact: info(at)plspharmalogistics.com
Company: PLS Pharma Logistics
Website:  www.plspharmalogistics.com
         
Field of expertise:

  • Premier providers of Good Distribution Practice Training
  • Quality systems/ auditing
  • Supply Chain Integrity & Compliance
  • Application for Wholesale Licences
  • Preparation for Regulator inspections, and close out after inspections

Ideal clients: Public, Private and Multinational companies in the Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Allied Sectors, including Transport/Logistics Providers & Distributors.

Products and services:

  • Consulting
  • Coaching
  • Education
  • Training
  • Responsible Person Services
  • Temperature Management Services

Summary bio:

Ciarán has over 20 years experience in the Healthcare/Pharmaceutical Industry at a senior management level responsible for Supply Chain Management on a global basis and has extensive experience on all aspects on GMP & GDP. He works with clients to provide tailor-made solutions to delivery exceptional performance and compliance.

Name: Victor Branagan
Email contact: info(at)enterpriseactions.ie
Company: Enterprise Actions Ltd
Website:

Field of Expertise: Strategies for growth in micro businesses

Ideal clients:

  • Social Partnership Businesses
  • Environmental/Sustainable Businesses

Products and Services:

Name:  Philip Clarke                     
Email contact: pcprism@iol.ie
Company: PRISM Management and Consulting Services
Website:   
                 
Field of expertise: Practical experience in the management of specialised financial services companies.

Ideal clients:

Financial Services companies (Irish and international) that provide products or services associated with savings, investments, pensions, life assurance and reinsurance.

Products and services: General management and consulting support 

  • Setting up a new business and obtaining an authorisation from the Financial Regulator
  • Deciding how to do operations - in-house or outsource to a third party administrator
  • Assessing and evaluating existing third party administration (TPA) or other outsourcing arrangements
  • Setting up and improving corporate governance and compliance processes
  • Financial management
  • Providing local support for international companies located in Ireland
  • Acting as a non-executive director.

Name: John Crawley
Email contact: cbc(at)johncrawley.com
Company: John Crawley
Website:
Field of expertise:

  • Corporate governance training/implementing
  • Business finance training for non accounting managers

Ideal clients:

  • SME's and corporates
  • Public sector bodies requiring governance sectors

Products and services:

Name: Edward De Groot                   
Email contact: degroot(at)gofree.indigo.ie
Company: De Groot Systems
Website:   
                 
Field of expertise: Extensive experience in using, designing, selecting and installing systems aimed at improving profitability.

Ideal clients: Small to medium sized business in the Service/retail/distribution sectors.

Products and services: Act as a bridge between “hands on” owners/directors and technology.

Name: Krishna De
Email contact: solutions(at)oneoceangroup.com
Company: Oneocean Ltd
Website: www.bizgrowthnews.com; www.bizgrowthlive.com; www.oneoceangroup.com

Field of expertise: branding, business development and marketing. We are the foremost leader in Ireland in new media strategies for professional services firms including blogging, podcasting, and media strategies for business.

As a result, our clients establish themselves as the experts in their field, building equity in their distinctive corporate, employer and personal brands.

Ideal clients: Leaders of professional services companies who want to 

  • attract more of their ideal clients
  • generate new streams of revenue for their practice
  • create more profit with less stress

Products and services: mentoring, live events, virtual programmes and information products in the areas of branding, business development, marketing, media, blogging, podcasting, and passive revenue generation.  An overview of the available programmes can be found here.

Summary bio: Krishna is an international broadcaster, journalist, professional speaker and business development mentor and the Managing Director of Oneocean Ltd. She has a breadth of global experience having worked in over 30 countries and lived in 3 continents.

She is the creator of Biz Growth Live, Europe's first virtual branding and business development programme for leaders in professional services firms.

Name: E Diamond Ebs
Email contact: diamondebs(at)dbacademy.ie
Company: Diamond Business Academy
Website: www.dbacademy.ie

Field of expertise:

: E Diamond Ebs
Email contact: diamondebs(at)dbacademy.ie
Company: Diamond Business Academy
Website: www.dbacademy.ie

Field of expertise:
  • Strategic Marketing Communications
  • Workplace Diversity
  • Payroll administration

Ideal clients:

Public, private and voluntary sector, any size. Organisations whose stakeholders are multi-ethnic or from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Products and services:

Consulting, Education, Training, Audiovisual Rental. Public Relations and Presentations, Sales Promotions, Media Representations, creating Synergy through Integration of Workplace Diversity in the Strategic Plan.

Name: Pamela Fay                  
Email contact: info@bpp.ie
Company: Business Performance Perspectives Ltd
Website: www.bpp.ie  
               
Field of expertise:

  • Performance consulting for businesses and individuals
  • Business etiquette training

Ideal clients:

Products and services:

  • BPM Consulting for Corporate Clients
  • BPM Training for Corporate Clients
  • Business Performance Training for Individuals
  • Business Etiquette Training courses for businesses and individuals

Name: Brian Flanagan
Email contact: info@planware.org
Company: PlanWare – Invest-Tech Limited
Website: www.planware.org

Field of expertise:

  • Business planning
  • Financial modelling
  • Strategy development
  • Startup support
  • and enterprise development.

Ideal clients: SMEs, SBUs of larger companies, startups, professional advisers and enterprise support organisations.

Products and services: Extensive range of free and paid-for software for business planning, financial projections, cash flow forecasting, market & sales planning and strategy development. Provision of consultancy services in relation to business planning and enterprise development

Name: Paul Flynn
Email contact: flynnpa(at)indigo.ie
Company: Paul a Flynn and Associates
Website:

Field of expertise:

  • Financial & Performance Management
  • Management Consulting
  • Healthcare Management

Ideal clients:

  • SME’s
  • Healthcare Providers

Products and services:

  • Profit & Performance Improvement
  • Financial & Performance Management
  • Market Analysis & Strategic Positioning
  • Business Transformation & Development
  • Investment Option Appraisal & Implementation Support

Name: Mel Gilligan
Email contact: melgilliagan@eircom.net
Company: Mel Gilligan
Website:

Field of expertise:

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Transport/Distribution
  • Production/Operations Management
  • Organisation and Sales Reviews
  • Business Development/Feasibility Studies

Ideal clients:

  • Manufacturing and Distribution Sectors
  • Food Industry/Agribusiness
  • Concrete Products
  • Large, Medium and Small Organisations

Products and services:

  • 29 years experience as a Management Consultant
  • Main benefits of projects to clients are in cost reduction, setting blueprints for future
  • and facilitating change through working with people.

Name: Michael Griffin
Email contact: info(at)petrusconsult.com
Company: Petrus Consulting
Website: www.petrusconsult.com

Field of expertise:

  • Strategy Management
  • Expenditure Review
  • Regulatory Reform
  • Management Reporting and Control Systems
  • Telecommunications Regulatory Development
  • Change Management

Ideal clients: Public and private sector bodies seeking to review current performance and improve future performance.

Products and services:

  • Strategy Development
  • Balanced Scorecard development
  • Performance Improvement
  • Organisation Review
  • Regulatory Impact Assessment

Name: Pat Gurren
Email contact: pat(at)gurren.ie
Company: Gurren Compensation Ltd
Website: www.gurren.ie

Field of expertise: HR Consultant with specialist knowledge in the Design/Management of Compensation and Benefit (“Pay”, “Reward”) Programmes for employees.

Ideal clients: Organisation with a requirement to ensure employee pay/reward programmes are aligned with business/organisational goals.

Products and services:

  • Assess/Critique your Compensation & Benefit cost structure
  • Assess/critique your Market competitiveness
  • Develop reward packages for key executives
  • Job Evaluation/Grade structure design
  • Pay Scale design
  • Variable Pay Design (e.g. Commission Plan, Profit Sharing. Performance bonus etc)
  • Pension Plan design & management
  • Align your compensation programmes with your business goals
  • Performance management process/systems
  • Develop a strategy to address compensation challenges e.g. to deal with acquisitions
  • Train/Develop your HR resources on best practice compensation & benefits processes

Name: Desmond Howett
Email contact: drhowett(at)eircom.net
Company: Howett Consulting
Website:

Field of expertise: Marketing and Public Relations

Ideal clients: Companies and individuals in need of assistance with any marketing related issue within their business

Products and services: Des tailors his expertise to the specific needs of his clients.
He assists clients in the creation and/or implementation of marketing activities.

Name: Edward Johnston
Email contact: guy(at)etm.ie
Company: European Telecommunications Management
Website: www.etm.ie

Field of expertise: Telecommunications, Voice & Data networking technology and applications

Ideal clients: Businesses which heavily rely on Voice & Data networking. Typically organisations with 250 + users

Products and services: Design, procurement and project management of Voice and data networking solutions optimised to meet business requirements

Name: Patrick Mulvee
Email contact: patrick.mulvee@yahoo.com
Company: Ann Connolly Consulting
Website:

Field of expertise: 

  • Strategy development and implementation
  • Process review and redesign

Ideal clients:

Products and services:

Name: Courtney Murphy
Email contact: murphycj(at)iol.ie
Company: Courtney Murphy and Associates Ltd
Website:

Field of expertise:

  • General Management
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Project Management

Ideal clients:

  • Start-ups
  • SMEs
  • Manufacturing & Internationally Traded Services Companies

Products and services:

  • General Management
  • Benchmarking for International Competitiveness
  • World Class Manufacturing & Services
  • Interim Operations Management
  • Business Planning & Fund Raising for start-ups

Name: Ray Murphy
Email contact: murphyr(at)indigo.ie
Company: Stragegic Computing
Website: www.strategiccomputing.ie

Field of expertise:

  • Software sourcing
  • Big ticket software negotiation
  • Ideal clients: Large organisations

Products and services:

  • Software and services sourcing toolkit
  • Seminars
  • 1-to-1 training
  • Consultancy

Name: David O'Keeffe                    
Email contact: dokeeffe(at)iol.ie
Company: Corporate Development
Website:       

Field of expertise:

  • Company turnaround
  • Business Appraisal
  • Profit Improvement
  • Organisation and Interim Management.

Ideal clients:

Products and services:

Name: Myles O'Reilly
Email contact: myles(at)orc.ie
Company: O'Reilly Consultants
Website: www.orc.ie

Field of expertise:

  • Competition, Mergers, Fair Trade
  • Feasibility studies in relation to start-ups

Ideal clients:

  • Quoted Companies, PLCs, SMEs
  • State Companies
  • Trade Associations

Products and services:

  • Advice on competition, mergers, fair trade
  • Preparation of feasibility plans and assistance with the implementation of the plans

Name: Mick Rock                      
Email contact: mickrock(at)actnow.ie
Company: ActNow
Website:                    

Field of expertise:

  • Coaching and consulting services to ensure the successful implementation of key business or personal goals.
  • Development programmes provided on a one to one or group basis to improve the skills and confidence of staff at all levels.

Ideal clients:

  • Small to medium size enterprises.
  • Start-up companies.
  • Individuals looking to improve quality of life or considering major life changes.
  • One to one coaching and consulting

Products and services: Training programmes including

  • Presentation Skills
  • Coaching Skills
  • Stress Management
  • and Personal Effectiveness

Name: Austin Seagrave
Email contact: austin.seagrave(at)astron.ie
Company: Astron Consulting
Website: www.astron.ie

Field of expertise: IT business consulting – getting business value from systems

Ideal clients: Corporates undertaking large systems projects – interested in both public and private sectors

Products and services:

  • Stategic planning of systems
  • Project management
  • Definition of requirements
  • Selection of solutions
  • Support of tendering
  • Process modelling

Name: Richard Tate
Email contact: rtate(at)eircom.net
Company: Richard Tate and Associates
Website:

Field of expertise: Quality Management

Ideal clients: All manufacturing and service organisations

Products and services: ISO9001

Name: Shane Twomey
Email contact: shane(at)hrdymanics.ie
Company: HR Dynamics
Website: www.hrdynamics.ie

Field of expertise:

  • Human Resources Management
  • HR compliance and managing the HR Risks
  • Specialists in extracting maximum value from your performance management, communications and reward sytems

Ideal clients:

Products and services:

  • HR Audit and Compliance
  • Performance Management
  • Communications Systems
  • Reward Systems
  • People Management Training for Line Managers

Name: Padraig Warren
Email contact: pjwarren(at)iol.ie
Company: Chinook Consulting
Website:

Field of expertise: Strategy, Quality, Mentoring & Programme Evaluations

Ideal clients:

  • SMEs in the manufacturing and service sectors
  • Funded Programme co-ordinators

Products and services:

  • Strategy development and implementation through application of a Balanced Scorecard approach
  • Implementation of Quality Management Systems
  • Senior and Owner Manager Mentoring
  • Independent evaluations of national and cross border funded programmes.

Name: Tom Yeaton
Email contact: tom(at)yeatonassoc.com
Company: Yeaton and Associates
Website: www.yeatonassoc.com

Field of expertise: 

  • Executive Search and Selection
  • Management Audits
  • Psychometric Testing
  • Succession Planning
  • Career Management
  • Internal Appointments

Ideal clients: Both public and private sector organisations

Products and services: As above