Chris brings his extensive experience as an entrepreneur in the advertising, media and marketing sectors and in senior corporate management and board positions to his executive coaching practice.

CEO, Cawley Nea/TBWA
Chairman, OMD Ireland
Director, OMG Group
Director, Bewley’s Coffee Group
Director, Titian
Director, Chriscawley.ie
Chairman, agency.com/Ireland
Chairman, egraphics.com
Fellow & Past President of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI)
Committee Member, Marketing Institute of Ireland (MII)
Committee Member, Institute of Directors in Ireland (IOD).

Chris’s continuous curiosity about the future and possibility led to the creation and management of a very successful business and more recently of a very successful social justice campaign. Chris brings that energy of visioning and possibility to his clients.

MSc Leadership and Behavioural Change,
Henley Business School, UK

MBA, Dublin Institute of Technology

Professional Certificate in Coaching (PCC), Henley Business School, UK

EBW (Emotions & Behaviours at Work) Brentfield Consultancy

COACHING PHILOSOPHY

One of the reasons that Chris became an executive coach was his own positive experience of working with one while a senior executive.

“Having a space to step out of the work environment, to regain perspective, and then to go back into the work environment with a fresh mind and clarity of purpose, resulted in my better performance and better outcomes, both professionally and personally.”

As a coachee, for Chris the real value was created with:

“The insight and realisation that the route to getting colleagues and team members to change their behaviour, resided in how effectively I could change my own behaviour. For me this was a personally liberating and professionally empowering insight.”

Chris believes he adds real value to clients who are looking to embark on a journey of behavioural change, having successfully made the journey himself as a senior business leader. In this rapidly changing business environment Chris believes that:

“Leaders need to develop their 'response-ability', their capacity to access their own better informed and deeper perspective, enabling sharper insights, access to their response-ability to choose better options and make better decisions.”