T.J. Byrne

T.J. has worked extensively in HR and OD Consulting since graduating from UCD in 1982. He started his career in education before moving from the classroom to working with teachers on a nationwide skills development project before taking up a line management role with an international education and training company, Yago Group. After 4 years, he left in 1992 to join Axis Corporate Training as Training and Development Director, working with a mostly multinational client base.

In 1994, T.J. co-founded Graphite HRM from which (The ODD Consulting Company Limited was formed in 2011) as Director of Consulting Services. He has worked extensively on organisational development and senior management coaching projects over the last 30 years.

TJ has extensive experience in leadership and management development and has facilitated senior executive teams in and has worked on a wide range of Organisational Development initiatives for a variety of multinational organisations. He has been designing and developing cloud-based diagnostic assessments for teams and supporting the roll-out of these as part of and culture change initiatives across Europe and North America.

In 2020 TJ took on the role of COO in an international start-up, Healthy Place To Work. He has been leading OD projects with organisations in Mexico, Sweden, Brazil and The Philippines.

TJ has always had a love for adventure. Over the years he has canoed, climbed and scuba dived across the world, but caving has been his primary passion. He was elected Chairman of the Speleological Union of Ireland on five occasions, he has designed and delivered certification training programmes in Cave Leadership and has served as Secretary of the Irish Cave Rescue Organisation and various Government bodies relating to adventure sports. Aside from outdoor pursuits, TJ has been a youth soccer coach with his local football club winning various Leagues and Cups with teams from different age groups.

• Designed and delivered all leadership development coaching Designed and delivered Performance Management Systems and Training for Glaxo Smithkline, KPMG, Lone Star International Finance, the Bar Council of Ireland and GS1 Ireland
• Organisational Diagnostics and culture development for Roche Pharmaceuticals, Bristol MyersSquibb, Irish Dairy Board, Topaz Energy
• Leadership Development programmes for BNY Mellon, RTÉ, Citibank, KPMG, Indaver (UK) and Xilinx.
• Delivered the Leadership Development programmes for senior executives in the hotel industry on behalf of Failte Ireland
• Conducted a major Training Needs Analysis for Athlone Institute of Technology