Personal profiles: Maitiu MacCabe & Maggie Gibbons
-Senior Coaches & Partners
- Enda Brennan Associate Coach
- Neville Galloway Senior Coach
Maitiu MacCabe
Maitiu is a Certified Graduate Coach accredited to the European Coaching Institute (ECI) and has worked extensively in this profession for several years.
He has almost thirty two years expertise in sales and marketing. He started his career selling advertising space for the Evening Press, and later gained experience with Roadstone Concrete in their sales and marketing department, before moving to Irish Biscuits as Export Sales Manager- Europe &Middle East. He later became sales and marketing manager with Tobacco Distributors Ltd. (Marlboro cigarettes).
He has been committed to coaching and training for the past 19 years, specialising in Sales, Business, and Executive coaching.
He has been a visiting lecturer at Trinity College and Dublin City University. He has served for several years on the national council of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, serving as National Secretary. He was recently awarded a Fellowship by the M.I.I. in recognition of his services to the promotion of the marketing discipline in Ireland, and for his work in creating links with marketing associations abroad.
Increasingly, his work takes him overseas. He has recently conducted assignments in UK, Switzerland, Holland and Kenya. He presented a very successful series of seminars on "Export Marketing into Europe" at Expo'92 in Seville, and was requested to repeat these seminars at Expo '98 in Lisbon, at the invitation of the local Chamber of Commerce.
Maitiú was voted "Best Trainer" and "Best Known Trainer" in Ireland in a major independent survey undertaken by Mercuré Intl (Switzerland) in 1998. The survey was conducted through 500 randomly selected companies in the Republic of Ireland.
He regularly contributes to various magazines and periodicals.
Maitiu says,"I've seen the effect that coaching has on anyone who is committed to making the best of themselves in any area of their lives. I really believe that people can reach their true potential with the help of a coach. Elite sports stars and entertainers rely heavily on their coaches, although they don't need lessons!. So when it works for major stars such as Padraig Harrington, Aneka Sorestam, Kiri TeKanawa and Tiger Woods, believe me, we can all benefit from good coaching."
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Maggie Gibbons
Maggie is a Certified Graduate Coach accredited to the European Coaching Institute (ECI) and has wide experience of coaching and training for many years.
She is the regular Style presenter on RTE's "Open House " TV programme for the past four years. In this role she has brought many "hidden" designers to the attention of the public, including designers of jewellery, handbags, shoes and knitwear.
She is the style advisor to several well known personalities.
She speaks regularly to many women's groups and at staff conferences, and is always appaluded for her presentation style, her sense of humour and her own elegant taste. A recent participant at a presentation by Maggie stated," She talks the talk, but also walks the walk superbly. She is her own best advertisement. I loved her presentation and she has such a wonderfully light touch with her humour and sense of fun. There were gales of laughter from the room, but Maggie also gave us so much information that was useful and very practical. I'd go to see her anytime". >
Previously, Maggie worked for Irish Times Newspapers and Golden Pages. In her own irght, she trains extensively in telephone selling, tele techniques, and customer care. Her portfolio of clients includes top names in both the domestic Irish market and in multi nationl companies.
Her work regularly takes her abroad, and she is a contributor to several style magazines. Her opinion is frequently sought by journalists who wish an expert, practical, and down-to-earth opinion to be heard in their articles.
Maggie now hosts her own Style & Image site at : Style with Maggie. Click here to visit her site.
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Enda Brennan
Enda has over 25 years experience working in the Professional and Customer Services environments, much at senior management level as Director of large multi-cultural, dispersed workforces, with significant multi-million dollar budgets.
Her work has taken her to all corners of the globe, and she has successfully delivered projects in North and South America, throughout Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Central and East Asia and Australia.
Enda has proved herself to be an experienced leader with proven ability to stimulate high performance and exceptional commitment from knowledge-based workforces enabling them to deliver superior enterprise and customer benefits. She is results focused, and a skilled driver of growth and change - through people. It is the people element that is her greatest interest and her greatest frustration as she experienced world-wide the numerous ways that people scaled great heights or sabotaged their own success. Enda decided to put a life-long commitment to the development and realisation of peoples' potential into full-time action with the establishment of Oyster Coaching, and now coaches individuals in business and privately to achieve even greater levels of success whether through one-to-one coaching or through the Oyster Life and Work Skills Workshops.
An engineering graduate from UCD, Enda has a Diploma in Life and Business Coaching (accredited by the European Coaching Institute) and is currently developing her coaching skills further by training to become an NLP Practitioner.
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Neville Galloway
Neville has over thirty years experience as a Senior Manager. He started his career as a Sales Representative in the Financial Services sector rising to Director of Sales and Company Secretary with Sun Life of Canada, Kerrigan Investments Ltd. Managing Sales and Staff in difficult trading conditions proved to be an invaluable experience which he brought to his position as Marketing/new Business Director at Golden Pages.
At that time the company was owned by ITT - the American Multi-National. His task was to set up a Marketing Department to raise the profile of the company, grow the revenues, and adapt the Sales Training to the Irish Market. During his twenty years there the brand became a household name; revenues grew by over 700%. He was head-hunted to take up his present role as Chief Executive of the Regional Press in Ireland.
His main role is to establish the Regional Press as a creditable media for national advertising, and developing the industry to acquire a more professional approach including new on-line Media. Over the past eight years the profile of Regional Press has improved immensely with revenues growing 500 % in that period.
Neville brings a wealth of practical experience to his coaching, across a wide spectrum of business. He has a high focus on producing results, and on growth and change within expanding organisations.
He was educated at the High School & College of Commerce Dublin, is a Fellow of the Marketing Institute, a former Board member of IDMA, former Chairman of the Publicity Club, and has many accreditations in management programmes at the Irish Management Institute, ITT and the Grubb Institute in London.
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