About SupportCoach

SupportCoach is a team of business coaches, consultants and mentors. We specialize in transformational change. We support business professionals to navigate critical challenges and define the optimum scenario for progress and change in their business and careers. Coactively, we define an action plan and a timeline for execution. At all stages, we ensure a motivational and practical approach to ensure success.

We are practitioners and facilitators from diverse leadership backgrounds with skills gained through entrepreneurship, finance, global manufacturing and executive education to form a unique solution for your success. We limit the number of clients we work with to ensure laser-focused attention for your professional challenges.

SupportCoach’s approach is bespoke to your specific needs, co-creating the appropriate path for success. Our uniqueness comes by combining a coaching ethos with professional expertise to form a positive, transformational environment for you.

As SupportCoach’s principal, I will partner you through your organizational or career transformation journey.

I am an executive coach with 15+ years of transformation expertise at leadership level to innovate on strategy and navigate both career and organizational transformation with sustainable success. I specialize in building meaning and fulfilment for progress. My purpose is to unravel the real challenges for your career or your business and together, design a roadmap for success with a realistic timeframe for achievement.

My purpose as your executive coach is to enable you to realise your true potential and exceed organizational targets. Together, we will outline the results you aspire to and convert these, with a clear vision, to an action plan for success that is grounded in your personal values. We’ll start with your “Why”* to really understand why this is so important for you. (*”Start with Why”, Simon Sinek).

I have 1000+ coaching hours, have designed and delivered national university courses, facilitated keynote messages at 100+ events with global corporates, and have supported many people to radically transform their careers.

Some clients include: Trinity College Dublin, The Law Society of Ireland, Zurich Group, Roche Pharma, PayPal, Rehab Group, Government and Entrepreneurship agencies, National Governing Bodies (NGBs), Fortune 500 global management consultancies and many Small/Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

Transformation has been a theme throughout my career: transforming departments, restructuring organizations and supporting clients to reshape their business or career. I have enjoyed the privilege of working with incredible, smart people in global brands like Microsoft, Autodesk and McAfee, and held leadership roles in SME organizations. Key roles have included project managing business start-ups, leading and developing global teams, recruiting principle stakeholders, amalgamating teams following acquisition and even closing businesses.

My leadership roles have been on both sides of the desk: as the client and the vendor, and I have led virtual teams in multicultural environments. The journey has been challenging, sometimes lonely and always rewarding. Many professional relationships built through my career are now strong friendships. Collaboration has been the key to success, supported by continuous learning. COVID lockdowns allowed me to achieve a Master’s degree in Leadership & Strategy, blending academic learning with business acumen to resolve client challenges.

Personally, I have overcome critical impacts from 3 potentially life altering accidents and come close to career burnout. I have been employed, re-deployed, unemployed and self-employed. These experiences, combined with practical learnings from philosophy and education, have developed grit, taught me the value of wellbeing, family and health, and bring empathy to client challenges. Now, some of life’s personal pleasures include spending time with family, friends and my dog, being close to the ocean, exercise, travel, and a passion for singing and music.

Don has extensive Irish and International commercial experience in private and public sector organisations where he has held both executive and non-executive roles. His key strengths are strategic planning, senior leadership team coaching, business coaching, conflict resolution and prevention. For over 15 years, he has coached CEOs, leadership teams and management teams to transform their businesses. The assignments have included turnaround situations, change of strategy and business development projects.

Don has worked across multiple service sectors: financial, publishing, Agri-supplies and veterinary. As CEO of Beacon Travel Group, he supervised the acquisition, growth and disposal of several business units. He spent two terms as a Government appointee to Cork Airport Authority’s board of directors following €250m investment to upgrade the airport. Don was elected to the Executive Agency for Small Medium Enterprises (EASME) to chair a group of 200 EU business coaches and explore organisational development challenges for SMEs when upscaling.

Don is a trusted strategic advisor to his clients – in some cases for over 10 years – where they rely on his insights and integrity to develop a way forward.