HC Collective Podcast

Morgan O’Connell is a practicing Financial and Career coach.  He is the first Financial Coach in Ireland holding the Certified Financial Planner© accreditation.  He is a qualified Financial Advisor (QFA) and previously a Personal Insolvency Practitioner (PIP).  He holds a Graduate Diploma in financial Planning from UCD and most the Advanced Diploma in Personal, Executive and Leadership Coaching from Kingstown College.  He is an accredited Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).

I coach clients around personal finance and career change. I help them to address stress, anxiety relating to work, money, debt, and conflict about money. I educate and support clients to move towards their goals. I speak to groups about work, money, debt, and associated behavioural problems.

Bernard played rugby in school and was persuaded by Warren Gatland to turn professional.  He went on to play for Connacht, the Sale Sharks and Leinster and, internationally, for Ireland, before retiring in 2010 due to a concussion injury.

In 2011, he published his autobiography, Blue Blood, before making the move into coaching at club level when he joined FC Grenoble on a consultancy basis. He went full-time in the 2012-2013 season and  was appointed head coach at Grenoble in June 2016. He then moved to the Welsh team the Dragons for 18 months. Since leaving coaching behind in December 2018, he has been working as a rugby pundit and columnist whilst rapidly building his profile as a motivational speaker and high-performance consultant.

Bernard works one to one with executives to give a different perspective and help them think outside the box and drive themselves and their team forward.

David Sammel is a world renowned tennis coach with two players competing in Tokyo. He wrote the best selling book Locker Room Power and founded the online mindset programme to help declutter the minds of competitors in sport and business. 

He specialises in leadership skills in competitive environments using surprisingly non-combatitive techniques, favouring the power of vulnerability, the strength of humbleness and the persuasiveness of soft skills. Enjoyment and environments enthused with the curiosity of possibilities are his answer to rules. “If there is a need to increase discipline and rules then the philosophy and culture are failing”.

Dr Tara Logan Buckley, (D.Clin.Psych) is working as a Clinical Psychologist in the private, public and corporate sectors. She received her undergraduate (B.A.Hons), Higher Diploma (H.Dip.Psych) and Masters degree (M.A. Applied Psych) from University College Cork. She went on to complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Trinity College Dublin.

To date, Tara has worked extensively in private and public adult mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychological service to a broad range of clients presenting with a range of severe and complex psychological, behavioural and emotional difficulties along with enduring mental health difficulties. These difficulties include depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and personality disorder.  Tara has experience in mental health assessment, formulation, treatment and behaviour change with children/adolescents, adults and those living with a disability. Her specialist residency was in an Irish specialised Weight Management Service which is a key area of interest for Tara as well as lipoedema.

She is the appointed Clinical Psychologist for evaluating and diagnosing Veterans of the US military here in Ireland. She has designed, delivered, and presented workshops and master classes to various corporate clients such as Airbnb, Hitachi, Superbet and Colgate. Tara  has presented her research on bariatric surgery and obesity both at a national and international level and she is also a member of The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and its clinical division. She is extremely passionate about positive mental health, well-being and helping people live a fuller, more rewarding life.

Dr Tara Logan Buckley, (D.Clin.Psych) is working as a Clinical Psychologist in the private, public and corporate sectors. She received her undergraduate (B.A.Hons), Higher Diploma (H.Dip.Psych) and Masters degree (M.A. Applied Psych) from University College Cork. She went on to complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Trinity College Dublin.

To date, Tara has worked extensively in private and public adult mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychological service to a broad range of clients presenting with a range of severe and complex psychological, behavioural and emotional difficulties along with enduring mental health difficulties. These difficulties include depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and personality disorder.  Tara has experience in mental health assessment, formulation, treatment and behaviour change with children/adolescents, adults and those living with a disability. Her specialist residency was in an Irish specialised Weight Management Service which is a key area of interest for Tara as well as lipoedema.

She is the appointed Clinical Psychologist for evaluating and diagnosing Veterans of the US military here in Ireland. She has designed, delivered, and presented workshops and master classes to various corporate clients such as Airbnb, Hitachi, Superbet and Colgate. Tara  has presented her research on bariatric surgery and obesity both at a national and international level and she is also a member of The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and its clinical division. She is extremely passionate about positive mental health, well-being and helping people live a fuller, more rewarding life.

Dr Tara Logan Buckley, (D.Clin.Psych) is working as a Clinical Psychologist in the private, public and corporate sectors. She received her undergraduate (B.A.Hons), Higher Diploma (H.Dip.Psych) and Masters degree (M.A. Applied Psych) from University College Cork. She went on to complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Trinity College Dublin.

To date, Tara has worked extensively in private and public adult mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychological service to a broad range of clients presenting with a range of severe and complex psychological, behavioural and emotional difficulties along with enduring mental health difficulties. These difficulties include depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and personality disorder.  Tara has experience in mental health assessment, formulation, treatment and behaviour change with children/adolescents, adults and those living with a disability. Her specialist residency was in an Irish specialised Weight Management Service which is a key area of interest for Tara as well as lipoedema.

She is the appointed Clinical Psychologist for evaluating and diagnosing Veterans of the US military here in Ireland. She has designed, delivered, and presented workshops and master classes to various corporate clients such as Airbnb, Hitachi, Superbet and Colgate. Tara  has presented her research on bariatric surgery and obesity both at a national and international level and she is also a member of The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and its clinical division. She is extremely passionate about positive mental health, well-being and helping people live a fuller, more rewarding life.

Dr Tara Logan Buckley, (D.Clin.Psych) is working as a Clinical Psychologist in the private, public and corporate sectors. She received her undergraduate (B.A.Hons), Higher Diploma (H.Dip.Psych) and Masters degree (M.A. Applied Psych) from University College Cork. She went on to complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Trinity College Dublin.

To date, Tara has worked extensively in private and public adult mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychological service to a broad range of clients presenting with a range of severe and complex psychological, behavioural and emotional difficulties along with enduring mental health difficulties. These difficulties include depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and personality disorder.  Tara has experience in mental health assessment, formulation, treatment and behaviour change with children/adolescents, adults and those living with a disability. Her specialist residency was in an Irish specialised Weight Management Service which is a key area of interest for Tara as well as lipoedema.

She is the appointed Clinical Psychologist for evaluating and diagnosing Veterans of the US military here in Ireland. She has designed, delivered, and presented workshops and master classes to various corporate clients such as Airbnb, Hitachi, Superbet and Colgate. Tara  has presented her research on bariatric surgery and obesity both at a national and international level and she is also a member of The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and its clinical division. She is extremely passionate about positive mental health, well-being and helping people live a fuller, more rewarding life.

Miriam Chancellor is New Zealand’s leading executive public speaking and presentation coach and Past-President of Auckland Toastmasters.

Miriam coaches clients to overcome the challenges of public speaking to enable them to achieve their professional goals. She works with a range of clients, from entrepreneurs to leaders of global organisations. Miriam also coaches several of New Zealand’s C-Suite executives.

Through her years of experience, Miriam has identified the small changes that make an enormous improvement to a person’s presenting style, both online and offline. She now seeks to share that knowledge with you.

Mike never fails to inspire. His own journey from homelessness to award-winning entrepreneur is filled with remarkable people and events. 

He is founder of Thinktastic, an innovations agency, voted Scottish Small Company of Year 2008 and acclaimed for its unique approaches to stretching people and organisations beyond the ‘apparently’ possible.  His clients included M&S, Scottish and Southern Energy, NHS, Scottish Government and Sky. His motivational work with schools was given special recognition on three successive years with a Business in the Community award for Raising the Attainment of Young People while his community investments made him one of only 21 UK company directors to be awarded the inaugural Community Mark.  In 2011, he picked up New Start Magazines Better Places Award. He was a founder member of Glasgow’s Wise Group and then of multi-award-winning creative agency, Design Links.  

Chucked out of school at 15, Mike spent a year sleeping on the streets of London, then racked up 29 jobs before his 26th birthday – his CV includes steelworker, wine bottler, hod-carrier, hospital orderly, biscuit packer and community worker. He also enjoyed a stint as a musician and actor.

He is a TEDx and Leadercast speaker, a regular media commentator on leadership, creativity and innovation, an occasional columnist for the Sunday Times and a two-times co-host of Disney Institute Master classes

David is one of Ireland’s most successful sprint athletes. He stepped off the track in 2013 after a successful athletics career which included winning Ireland’s first sprint gold medal in 76 years when winning the European Indoor 400m championships in 2005. He went on to retain his title in 2009 and became an Olympian in 2008.

A major goal for David was to compete in a global 400m final, which had never been achieved by an Irish athlete. In 2009 he finished 6th in the Berlin World Championships competing and beating some of the top 400m athletes. He still holds both the indoor and outdoor Irish 400m records.

Post his athletics career he went from full time corporate employment to the celebrity MasterChef kitchen, and since has gone on to follow his passions of fitness, food and promoting a healthy lifestyle.

He has written two bestselling books, David Gillick’s Kitchen and more recently Back On Track, David’s 4 part plan to a healthy lifestyle, in which David talks openly and honestly about his struggles with mental health post a sporting career and the strategies he used in recovery.

David currently works in a number of areas, mainly corporate wellness and performance, supporting organisations, teams and individuals in realising their potential and operating efficiently and effectively to achieve their respective goals.
Alongside this David is a regular media contributor on both food and sport, working on various media platforms including TV, radio, online and print.

Passionate about Irish sport and the voice of the athlete, David is a member of the Olympic Federation Of Ireland’s Athlete Commission along with the High Performance committee of athletics Ireland and Sport Ireland Anti-doping committee.
He currently resides in Dublin with his wife Charlotte and three young kids, Oscar, Olivia and Louis