Barry O'Sullivan

Barry O’Sullivan has been a professional executive coach for over 11 years. He is an experienced senior executive with a background in financial services. He brings his hands-on leadership experience to bear on his practice. He builds trusting relationships, impacts on individual and team performance, and supports development through partnership and challenge.

Experience/Background

Barry O’Sullivan has been a professional executive coach and facilitator since 2010. He is an experienced senior executive of over 25 years in financial services, in various business development and operations roles to Director level. As an internal coach to peers and his own teams he was inspired by the effectiveness of a coaching approach to leadership. His passion for coaching practice led to professional development with Smurfit Graduate Business School and his practice as an executive and team coach and facilitator.

Barry was Head of Brokerage Operations for Irish Life until 2009, He led the merger of the distribution business in 2000. He was a Regional Director with Prudential, a non-executive Director of Assurelink and Money Advice CRM. As Group Director Financial Planning and Employee Benefits at Arachas, he restructured and developed the financial services and wealth management business in preparation for sale in 2018.

Working closely with senior leadership, he has natural coaching style that draws on his training and experience in applying practical approaches to working with change agendas for individuals. His approach aims to build awareness, achieves personal growth and deliver changes in outlook, attitudes, and behaviours.

He partners with senior leadership teams to address the factors that impact on team effectiveness in the context of their systems, while aiming to develop their capacity to develop further as a team.

Recent Sectors: Professional Services, I.T., Law, Food, Retail, Utilities and Engineering including KPMG, PWC, AXA, ESB, Ervia, NTMA, Bank of Ireland, Permanent TSB, Aldi, Fyffes, Trinity MBA.

Professional Qualifications

• Internal Coach Programme, Clutterbuck & Assoc.
• Professional Diploma in Business & Executive Coaching, UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.
• Professional Diploma in Team Coaching, UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.
• Professional Diploma in Advanced Executive Coaching, UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.
• MSc Coaching, UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.
• Bachelor Business Studies, Dublin City University.
• IMI Advanced Management Programme.
• Professional Diploma in Financial Planning QFA. Professional Pension Trustee Diploma PTP.

Tools & Diagnostics:Insights Discovery. ECR & ECR 360, Envisia 360. Coaching Constellations. Team Connect 360. Team Diagnostic Survey (6 Conditions)