A senior Chartered HR practitioner — strategy, reward, performance, learning and executive search. The human layer to the ainm software.

I’m a Chartered HR practitioner (MCIPD), F.ERF. I’ve run the people function from the inside — as General Manager for Ireland at Agria and as Head of HR — and I’ve sat on the other side of the table as an executive-search partner, finding the leaders those functions are built around. That double view is the point: I read reward, org design and senior hiring as an operator who has owned the outcome, not just advised on it.

That operator’s view is sharpened by a second career as an educator — and it’s what sets the advisory apart from the usual HR consultant. I lecture at UCC in Human Resource Management (HRM), co-founded the Odyssey Programme — a national, HEA-backed career & leadership programme — and I’m an Executive MBA candidate there as a Dean’s Scholar. Clients bring me in not only to advise, but to train their managers and build the capability in-house. My work is grounded in evidence and written to be defensible — to a board, a regulator, or the Workplace Relations Commission.