Paddy is an executive coach and mentor with over 30 years business experience, mostly in the IT sector. Paddy’s coaching focus is to support her clients become more self-aware and skilful in their leadership practices, aligned with their personal values and strengths. She seeks to create a safe learning space for clients that is pragmatic and theoretically grounded. Coaching outcomes involve clients achieving their goals and aspirations by becoming more resourceful in their mindset, or “way of being” (emotionally, mentally and physically). Coaching typically relates to personal mastery, leading teams and leading the organisation. Coaching and mentoring are offered in a blended approach, as relevant.

Paddy’s motivation, as Executive Coach, is to contribute to improving the human aspects of organisational performance. She is passionate about partnering with leaders to create environments where people thrive. She believes that when people flourish and prosper, it becomes natural for them to create value for the organisation and its stakeholders. A guiding principle that underpins her approach is that organisations don’t transform, rather, people do… starting with leaders. Organisational transformation happens fastest when individual leaders and whole leader teams commit to grow, evolve and learn, in response to changes in their wider context. Paddy utilises systemic team coaching principles to support teams to align and collaborate, in pursuit of a common team purpose. Her team coaching offering includes aligning on strategy, accountability roles, team culture, stakeholder engagement and ongoing learning.

Paddy is an accredited International Coach Federation PCC-level coach, Ontological coach and Systemic Team coach.  She is accredited to utilise a variety of assessments, including the Enneagram, leadership styles, climate and culture assessments.

Paddy’s approach is grounded in over 30 years of business experience. She was given managerial responsibility at a young age and grew quickly through the ranks. She held corporate executive leadership roles, mostly in the Information Technology, Telecoms and Banking sectors. Functional business roles included sales, marketing, business strategy, change management and organisational culture transformation.