Koi Business Coaching & Consulting

Isolde is a qualified Executive and Team Coach accredited at Master Level with the Association for Coaching. She holds an MSc in Business and Team coaching.

She coaches senior leaders and teams from a diverse range of industry sectors including; Technology, Pharmaceutical, Telecom, Legal, Health, Fisheries, Travel, Agri-Food, Professional Services, Universities and not for profit.

Having spent 12 years in a large Software multinational, in a range of management and leadership positions, she designed and implemented a successful culture change program resulting in improved employee morale, new ways of working and significant increases in performance. This experience ignited her interest and continued passion for organisational development and led her to re-train as an executive coach.

Her development as a coach has been informed by a number of disciplines and experiences. She has an MSc in Executive and Team Coaching. She also holds an MBA and many years management experience working in a high pace, high change, global environment. This gives her the coaching, business and organisational competencies required to effectively support her clients.

Her coach training is grounded in the Gestalt process and this strongly influences her approach. She has also trained in yoga, meditation, energy and somatic practices which deepen her knowledge and ability to work with clients at a deeper level when they feel stuck.

She works with clients on their Emotional Intelligence as research shows it is a predictor of performance. The essential principles incorporate self-awareness, personal responsibility, personal power, non-judgement of self and others, being present, kindness and the importance of boundaries. These are the foundation for all emotional intelligence competencies including building self-esteem, self-confidence and well-being.

Eimear is a qualified Executive and Team Coach accredited at Professional Executive level with the Association for Coaching. She holds an MSc in Personal and Management Coaching.

She coaches developing and senior leaders and teams across a diverse range of public sector departments, Health, Transport, Technology, Professional Services, Engineering, Universities, Insurance and not for profit.

With a Bachelors of Commerce and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing Eimear qualified as an Accountant with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Prior to transitioning into her career in executive coaching, Eimear’s 25-year business career included finance, marketing and general management positions in Diageo PLC and Life Sciences.

As an Executive and Team Coach, Eimear supports clients to build leadership capability whilst thinking strategically about how they need to change themselves, their teams or their wider organisation with careful consideration of their specific context, stakeholder engagement and the impact of that change on others. 

Eimear has a special interest in executive education  focused on   developing leadership capability.  Her practice includes being both Facilitator and Coach on business and leadership development programmes including Trinity Business School’s International Growth Programme, Skillsnet Women ReBoot and Irish Rail ‘Women in Leadership’ Programme. She is also a Registered Volunteer Coach with the European Mentoring & Coaching Council, supporting Social Entrepreneurs through Ashoka Coaching for Changemakers programme.

A certified practitioner in assessment tools including emotional intelligence, TTI Success Insights and 6 Team Conditions, Eimear utilises these to provide clients with insights that support professional and personal growth and confidence.

Liz is an experienced Retail and Hospitality operations manager with excellent project management and people management experience.

Her 25-year plus in the field experience includes store management, buying, merchandising, in the fashion industry for companies including A-Wear, Penney’s, and Brown Thomas.

She trained in the hospitality sector with roles including store management for Starbucks and various restaurant management positions in Ireland, New York and San Francisco.

She was the hospitality manager for people such as Nina Simone, Sir Paul McCartney, Justin Timberlake and Ben Harper. It was during this time that she honed her skill set for delivering a service second to none.

She has also run her own highly successful jewellery and accessories business.

Her primary degree is in Science, she has also a number of qualifications in Entrepreneurial Studies,  Fashion Design, Teaching, Training, and Business.

Her passion for training grew when she worked as a store manager for Starbucks and she was appointed as a Manager Coach Mentor (MCM). She realised her talent for communicating the procedures and processes of the company while keeping the brand values to the forefront of the experience.

She has also trained as a yoga, mindfulness and meditation teacher. She studied energy healing and reiki and these practices inform her work where she can take a holistic approach to the overall project and consider the needs of all involved in a retail/hospitality space from a young part-timer starting out to the store manager and of course the customer.