HC Collective Podcast

Jasper’s Coaching and Performance Consultancy partners with organisations that are committed to equipping their leaders to thrive in an increasingly demanding world of business. He worked for 15 years in frontline corporate roles in banking and professional services, all client-facing and fee-earning with leadership responsibilities.

Peter has over 35 years’ experience in the financial markets and has managed treasury operations in financial institutions including Barclays, BNP, Ulster Bank and ACCBank. Peter was head of Trading in Barclays for 10 years.

Peter is an expert in foreign exchange, interest rate and market risk and has implemented treasury processes and procedures for several financial institutions. Throughout his banking career he advised clients on best practice with regards their treasury operations and has continued this work as a consultant.

As chief dealer and subsequently general manager of treasury, pensions, and investments he became expert in structured finance, funding, trading, investments, and risk management.

Peter founded the ‘Institute of Investing & Financial Trading’ in 2010. A college specialising in Investing and Trading education for individuals.

In 2015 Peter founded Baggot Investment Partners, a bespoke investment brokerage offering portfolios made up from best global products.

Peter’s economic analysis and expertise about the financial markets, is highly sought after by the Irish and international media. His direct manner, alongside his honest and clear assessments of present economic conditions, makes him popular with the general public and the media alike, he features regularly on RTE, TV3, BBC World, RTE Radio, Today FM and NewsTalk.

Angela Go is an Entrepreneur, Fortune 500 Executive Coach & Trainer, Award-Winning Public Speaker and President of the UAA, Europe’s leading engineering professionals network.

Starting out as a broke travelling hippie sleeping on couches and selling self-made handicrafts on the streets, within a short 5 years she made an impressive transformation and became a corporate leader, acclaimed award-winnning public speaker and owner of several businesses.

Nestlé Headquarters recruited her to co-found !nGenius, their highly successful employee innovation accelerator, that has since gathered thousands of ideas from ten thousands of employees and created a massive cultural transformation towards innovation and intrapreneurship.

She has inspired and guided thousands of people around the world through her immersive trainings, public speeches and coaching programs, helping leaders and innovators create and multiply their impact through personal & professional breakthroughs, innovation, impactful communication and holistic leadership. During the pandemic she launched a series of MasterClasses to help leaders become impactful virtual leaders, with hundreds of leaders in attendance from 80+ corporations.

Angela has appeared on various international media, was a panel speaker in Davos for 2 consecutive years and has shared the stage with prominent speakers like John Travolta, Calvin Klein, Randi Zuckberg, Forbes and many more.

In February 2012 I had just returned to work as a P.E. teacher after having my youngest son George when tragedy struck my family. George died suddenly with no sign of illness in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant on the 22nd February. Just days later Paul, my husband and the Daddy to my three children, took his own life traumatised by the loss of their son.

The tragedy of experiencing the sudden death of a child was compounded by the situation my husband and I found ourselves in at the hospital, having nowhere to privately grieve and say goodbye to our son. The family were offered no support and we were left to deal with the loss of both Paul and George alone.

Motivated by a desire to ensure others would not have the same devastating experience after losing a child suddenly in hospital, I set up the child bereavement charity ‘2 Wish Upon a Star’. To date the charity has raised over £1,900,000 exclusively from small public donations and local fundraising and 2 Wish Upon A Star is now an All Wales organisation helping hundreds of families every year who experience sudden and traumatic loss.

I am also very passionate about mental health and I regularly speak about my own struggles since losing my boys. I took part in a BBC documentary in 2017 ‘Mind Over Marathon’ raising awareness of mental health and I often speak out about mental health in men and following sudden bereavement.

I now work full time at 2 Wish Upon A Star and I am determined that every family in Wales who loses a child suddenly receives the support they truly deserve. The love and pride I have for my boys, along with my drive to succeed has seen the charity flourish.

I often share my story with police forces and health boards across Wales. It is only by working together we can make a true difference to families facing the hardest of times.

Educator, Psychotherapist, Podcast Host.

Having recently retired from her post as a primary school teacher in Ireland, in a career that spanned thirty years, Síle continues to educate, inspire and mentor in her new incarnation as a life and business coach, psychotherapist and success strategist. Síle works with formulas to help clients achieve mind-derived health optimisation. Teaching individuals and business communities about Causing an Effect as opposed to Cause and Effect, Síle is taking blueprints for best practice, from philosophy, to initiation, to mastery, one recovery programme at a time. Culture is key, when it comes to growth and expansion. Síle’s WHOLE & ONE master plan, frames the 3As of adaptability, authenticity and agility as non-negotiable in the architecture of growth mindset, at individual and organisational levels, for optimum results.

Thoughts are a locomotive to living intentionally, as opposed to living out of habit. Some thoughts are reflexive, but you can also think deliberately. Síle expounds the value of meta-cognition as a launch pad for achieving desired outcomes. When you learn how to think about, what you’ve been thinking about, you are no longer the programme, you are the observer of the programme, and from here you can change behavioural responses, to change outcomes. Knowledge, particularly psycho-education as well as techniques such as mindfulness, gratitude and self-care are the tools of the trade if you wish to live deliberately and optimise results. The WHOLE & ONE model uses mind hacks, to coach people and partnerships on how to make the requisite mind-set changes, to improve productivity and self-efficacy by managing self-talk, building a healthy relationship with anxiety, and by learning how to rewrite the narrative; tell yourself that different story. It’s like doing a bicep curl for your brain. WHOLE & ONE, you’ve got this!

I’m Deirdre, founder of StepUpStepIn. I am a mother, daughter, sister and loving loyal friend.  However, as a professional woman, my greatest joy in life is to see all women shine with confidence in both their professional and personal lives.

I have spent the last 25 years leading teams and individuals through organisational and transformational change. My background is in the Technology Industry working at LinkedIn, IBM and Oracle in a range of senior leadership roles.

Throughout my career, I’ve made conscious efforts to champion those around me, however I observed that majority of the women I worked with needed extra guidance to help find their voice or overcome their self-limiting beliefs.

This passion has now become my purpose and I took the brave decision to leave the high paced corporate world. When I am not practising yoga, mediating or jumping into the Irish Sea, I am investing my time in coaching women. I now understand more than ever the need to create successful careers that positively impact them, their teams and the organisation. I draw on my extensive wealth of knowledge and experience from my own career.
As a Career and Confidence Coach, my style is to dance in the moment which allows greater flexibility of coaching and creates an environment for a deeper response to emerge.
I consider myself to be warm, engaging and empathetic. However, through my agile coaching approach I can easily pivot, which in turn challenges and helps gain a different perspective

Peter Norris is the Chairman of the Virgin Group, a position he took up in 2009. Prior to this he had acted as an adviser to the Group from 1996 and had chaired Virgin Active from 2002 to 2007. He also currently chairs Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Hotels. Peter has over 40 years’ experience in investment banking and business management.

After graduating from Robert College, she continued her education in Koc University, majoring in Economics and Business Administration, followed by International Marketing MSc degree in King’s College, London. She began her professional career in Google, Ireland. From customer experience to sales, she worked in different roles and managed various projects for Google’s digital marketing and advertising products, mainly in the UK, Ireland and Turkey.

Her interest in people steered her towards exploring positive psychology and coaching.  She completed her coaching degree in Kingstown College and received Advanced Diploma in Personal, Leadership and Executive Coaching.

During her time in Google, she designed mentoring programs, worked in building the coaching culture in EMEA sales organisation and mentored Irish startups. After leaving Google, she founded Positive Coaching Center, offering coaching, mentoring and training services for professionals, entrepreneurs and businesses. Sinem is also a certified Designing Your Life coach and Insights Discovery facilitator.

Ewan is passionate about helping people and businesses to grow and has founded a business dedicated to just that (xPotential Limited).  He now uses the expertise and experience gained from over two decades working for companies like KPMG, EY and Virgin Media to support business and their people in achieving their goals.

Ewan was formerly Group Finance Director for Virgin Media during which time he was named as one of the Top 100 CFOs in Ireland.  He was also awarded Irish Accountant of the Year in recognition of his work in acquiring a number of businesses (including TV3), his unique people leadership style and his drive to improve commercial operations.

Shane O’Donoghue is an Irish Olympian but more importantly, a highly passionate performance coach and psychologist. Upon graduation from University Limerick and Kingstown College with a master’s in performance psychology and executive coaching, Shane provides a professional yet practical coaching experience. Shane is a highly ambitious international hockey player with 190 international matches for Ireland. His most notable achievements to date would have to be representing Ireland at the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2018 World Cup as well as securing a European bronze medal in 2015 in London. Shane holds a prestigious record, in that he is Ireland’s all-time leading goal scorer with over 100 goals, so he certainly knows all about hitting targets. 

Now more than ever since falling agonisingly short of qualifying for his second consecutive Olympics Games, Shane is motivated to learn from his mistakes and provide people with the necessary tools, real life strategies and knowledge to perform in their chosen careers.