It was March 2006. I was 33 years old and responsible for $1.6bn and out of the blue, I walked into the founder’s office and resigned from the company and the job I loved.

I was an analyst and portfolio manager in the fund of funds business, making investments in hedge funds, and tasked with understanding what differentiated great investments from good investments.

Despite my natural ability to spot potential and my rigorous due diligence process, refined over hundreds of investments, I knew I was missing something.

 Increasingly, I suspected that something could never be captured in any due diligence process.

Grainne - About

I had moved to New York in 2002 and shortly afterwards developed an allergic reaction to something in my environment. I consulted with experts, started eating a more plant-based diet, drank less alcohol, exercised more, discovered yoga and meditation, acquired an executive coach and was fascinated by how these changes impacted on my energy levels, my focus and concentration, my mood, as well as my productivity. My career went from strength to strength and I was amazed by the performance edge these lifestyle changes were giving me and by the fact that I was so much happier and confident in myself.

I began to wonder if the internal state of the people I invested with was the difference in their success or failure. 

I decided to retire from finance and retrain as an executive coach so that I could devote myself to exploring this.

Twenty years on, having spent years training as an executive coach and exploring the most cutting edge, far reaching techniques available to us, I have no doubt that my suspicions were well founded. I understand so much more about the relationship between the body and mind, the conscious and the unconscious, which when put into practice, are completely transformative for human performance and productivity.

I am passionate about sharing what I’ve learned so others can live their true potential and create a life that brings them health, happiness and fulfilment.

If you are ready to experience greater wellbeing and success in all areas of your life, get in touch and let’s talk about how I can support you.

Testimonials

Gráinne is very warm and has a trusting energy. I feel very fortunate to have come across someone with such an interesting approach and sense for the spirit and soul.

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Grainne’s support made a remarkable difference to my wellbeing. She helped me manage burnout during a crisis and provided tools to make me feel resourced and supported.

Grainne has been instrumental in helping me balance my work and home life more effectively. She gave me frameworks, offered thoughtful questions, and relevant resources that helped me feel grounded while managing competing priorities, making this balance not just achievable but sustainable.

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My coach Grainne guides and nurtures all of me, as a leader and as a human being.

I am the co-lead of a team of 89 FTEs in Europe, going through an internal change process in Europe and I highly appreciate Grainne’s professional background. She knows what I am talking about when I tell her about the challenges in my leadership role.

Her powerful coaching enables me to look at my challenges from different angles. I love the unique mix of tools and methods Grainne brings to our sessions – always showing up with her heart and mind. She lives her values and her teachings. We structure my organigram, we put major topics or colleagues into constellations so that I can see more clearly where I stand thus being able to act in a more thought through way. Grainne guides me through Yoga Nidra sessions that empower me on stressful days. I particularly enjoy it when Grainne takes me on a visualization journey that enables me to go so much deeper and discover hidden solutions.

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Grainne’s coaching has enhanced my confidence and clarity as a leader,enabling me to recognise my strengths and contributions within my organisation.

Her guidance during a particularly stressful period helped me navigate professional challenges with resilience and implement lasting strategies that enabled me to show up for myself and my team with integrity.

I am incredibly grateful for Grainne’s generosity, insight, and support. I couldn’t recommend her more highly to anyone looking to reflect, grow, and explore their potential with curiosity and care.

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Working with Grainne was an incredible experience. She helped me unlock and reframe challenges I was facing both at work and in my personal life. I was able to make more headway on my professional goals during the four months Grainne and I worked together than I was in the previous year. Most importantly, Grainne was encouraging, empathetic, and pushed me to really put myself first as a working mom. She helped me find a new level of wellbeing that I needed so much. Grainne truly was a blessing to me at just the right time.

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Working with Grainne has been eye-opening in so many ways. Through the coaching sessions she’s helped me increase my self-awareness significantly and use that knowledge to make better decisions. I am now able to see opportunities I’d never even thought of, and identify self-beliefs I didn’t even realize I had, which had been preventing me from achieving my full leadership potential, both within my organization and in my own life.

Her warmth will make you feel at ease, but at the same time she is very committed and goal oriented, and hence will push you and challenge you, gently but surely, in order to drive you forward.

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Grainne has a super style, she is an individual who puts individuals at ease whilst also being able to ask the questions which will open up both the individual and team thinking.

She also has an innate curiosity and therefore researched all the key information which would enable us to consider some key questions and get some key answers!

She is a skillful influencer as not everyone on the team was originally supportive of our approach but now recognise the value of the work we have done.

I think the proof is in our results, we have surpassed our wide ranging goals.

Personally I am truly grateful to Grainne for her support as initially I was the person driving this change, the great thing is that it is now owned by the team which speaks for itself.

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