Why your interest in productivity?
We all have a unique gift and when we develop and harness it, we maximize our impact and also experience a profound sense of wellbeing.
It’s not about doing more or being better or acquiring new skills. It’s about slowing down and capitalizing on what we’ve already got.
When we act intentionally and in harmony with the people and the world around us, we amplify our own strengths and the strengths of others and mitigate our individual and collective blind spots.
When we can do this, we unlock our individual and collective potential and the whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts.
My approach is holistic and focuses on both the client’s internal state and external circumstances.
For some clients, the vision is for their internal state, to be more calm, more confident, to have more energy. For others it is an external goal around career progression or lifestyle. Usually it is some combination of the two.
The pendulum has swung to both extremes at different stages of my life.
In my twenties and early thirties, when I worked in the hedge fund business, the pendulum swung to one extreme and my primary focus was work. In my late thirties and forties, the pendulum swung to the other extreme and my primary focus was my relationship with myself and others, primarily my family.
As I enter my fifties, I can see that both were sub-optimal and that what I really needed was balance and boundaries, and that balance and boundaries would have made me a better analyst and portfolio manager and a better mother, wife, daughter etc.
Today I try to be guided by balance, balance of internal and external, self and others, personal life and professional life, and the integration of being and doing.
I would start my wellbeing journey much earlier, seeing it as an investment in my productivity. I really didn’t appreciate the significance of exercise, diet, sleep and meditation until I was in my early 30s and living in New York.
I would also have been much more proactive in seeking out informal feedback from direct reports, peers and bosses. As a coach my stock phrase is “the worst kind of feedback is no feedback”. When we get no feedback we make assumptions that everything we are doing is positively received and so we perpetuate behaviours that don’t serve us.
I work with a wide range of people and the common link is that I accompany them through a significant transition in their lives, whether that relates to a promotion, to increased responsibilities on the home front, to returning to work after illness or recovering from burnout, or simply wanting to have more joy in their lives.
I help clients to find their equilibrium by supporting their efforts to be happy and healthy and to thrive in both their personal and professional lives.
I worked as an analyst in the fund of funds business for over ten years and I’ve worked as an executive coach for almost 20 years.
In this next phase of my career, I’m interested in opportunities that combine my passions for managing money, for building teams and businesses and for supporting people on their personal growth journeys.
I find that working closely with groups over a period of time amplifies and accelerates the impact. I welcome the opportunity to collaborate with more teams or organisations ready to realise their potential.
“we’re all unique – which is why I offer a bespoke approach for each and every client.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
