Meet our Coaches
Liam Patel
Motivility’s founder Liam is passionate about people and technology.
A 23-year Microsoft career, in Ireland and Silicon Valley, has driven his desire to make
others great – which is Motivility’s focus.
When Liam isn’t working, you’ll find him cycling, house exchanging or plotting and planning his next life project.
Lucia O’Riordan
Lucia joined Motivility after spending over 20 years in the wonderful world of Finance.
Thriving on working with individuals and businesses seeking to grow, Lucia draws on her extensive business experience when coaching individuals and teams alike.
Motivated by growth, she adopts a results-oriented, tailored approach for clients.
Denise Horan
A communications professional with 20 years’ experience in journalism and corporate communications, in both Ireland and abroad, Denise is passionate about connecting people with their purpose and helping them to live their best lives, personally and professionally.
With four All-Ireland Football titles, Denise is someone who will help you achieve your goals.
Des Lane
In a 30-year career with the Central Bank of Ireland, Des has held several leadership positions and amassed vast experience in organisational change, programme management, leading change and crisis management.
With two All-Ireland Football titles – Des is passionate about helping people be the best that they can be.
PJ Owens
PJ is a Chartered Accountant with 20+ years’ experience in senior leadership roles, providing strategic insight in Pharmaceutical, Med Tech & FMCG Sales, Marketing & Distribution companies. He is passionate about team and individual development, which he delivers through a combination of coaching and mentoring.
Our Services
LEADERS
Great leaders help people reach their goals.
At Motivility we will help you reach yours.
Using proven Emotional Intelligence (EQ) measurements, we guide you to understanding how to build upon your strongest leadership qualities.
Throughout the process we help you to:
- Understand your existing effectiveness.
- Identify your signature strengths.
- Uncover your development opportunities.
- Develop your leadership presence.
- Respond creatively and effectively to new opportunities.
- Enhance your capacity to influence others to achieve productive outcomes.
Businesses
Motivility coaches combine their wealth of industry experience and their passion for working with business owners to grow their companies. We match your needs with a Business Coach that has relevant experience to help you achieve.
We offer practical steps to support business success for SME’s.
We help you define the future strategy for your business and work in partnership with you to realise your ambitions.
Throughout the process we help you to:
- Redefine your business strategy through a consultative process.
- Adapt and flex to meet the current challenges.
- Step out to work on your business.
- Build a high-performance culture.
- Raise finance to grow/refocus your business.
INDIVIDUALS
A Motivility Coach will see things the individual cannot see
– blind spots.
Blind spots often lead to self-limiting assumptions and barriers to progress and growth.
By creating a safe and engaging environment, we guide you through a revelatory process that can take you, your leadership or organisation to the next level.
Throughout the process we help you to:
- Transform complexity into clarity and action.
- Build confidence and resilience to achieve your goals.
- Develop the skills to be at your best as a leader.
- Transition your career and land your dream role.
- Take back control and gain a greater work/life balance.
TEAMS
At Motivility we work with business owners and their teams to realise their strategic objectives through collaboration and effective communication. Our programmes are built around collective team performance using proven business models that support higher productivity and profitability.
Throughout the process we focus on:
- Building high performance teams.
- Collaboration in the virtual world.
- Peer-to-peer coaching.
- Greater accountability, both for the individual and team.
- Innovative thinking and creation of new possibilities and new solutions.
WOMEN LEADERS
At Motivility we understand that females face different challenges to their counterparts in the workplace.
We offer support to female-identified individuals and leaders who want to unleash their full potential with soul and purpose – to become the very best version of themselves.
Throughout the process we help you to:
- Accelerate your career with confidence.
- Identify and build your key strengths.
- Build your personal brand.
- Reflect and create your leadership strategy.
- Resume your career with confidence and flair.
REMOTE WORKING
We will help you plan and prepare your Remote Working Strategy (RWS).
For Individuals: while safeguarding your work-life balance, we will help you examine what works best for you, and how it can fit within company policy.
For Businesses: we will help you create a remote friendly culture, using the proven benefits of Behavioural Economics.
Throughout the process we help you with:
- Responding effectively to this new norm, the future of work.
- Optimal collaborative approaches through EQ & TQ.
- Remote: Pre-Boarding | On-Boarding | Re-Boarding.
- Employee feedback mechanisms.
- The importance of and taking care of mental health.
- Uncovering weak spots.
Meet Some Clients
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Anne
CEO - Paycheck Plus
During Coaching with Liam and Lucia I felt safe and comfortable discussing personal and professional issues. Their empathy and understanding gave me the space I needed to think through my concerns, resulting in positive outcomes.
Despite being challenging at times, their questioning helped me come to important decisions in a structured, yet personal way. I felt supported throughout the process and believe that the time I spent with them for coaching was very productive and valuable.
Thank you both so much!
John
Owner - Garden Rooms
COVID-19 drew in unprecedented demand for our home office products. We needed a strategic partner – fast. Through Motivility I found Liam.
Within weeks he guided us in restructuring the business – forever. He coached, mentored and advised on a complete re-fit of our IT. He helped recruit new key staff, and set up a strong platform for us to work smarter with customers and internally. Our business is stronger because of his help.
I’d highly recommend a chat with Liam. He has shown me how to take back control of my business and continues to coach me in leadership skills.
Some of Liam’s winning attributes are his honesty; he’s incredibly helpful; He likes to roll his sleeves up and get stuck in with you. He understands people and has a gift for making things happen.
Barbara
MD - Lynch Training & Development
Lucia O’Riordan has worked as an associate for Lynch Training & Development over the past year. All clients Lucia worked with found her capacity to problem solve, ability to strategize and implement practical solutions, with immediate impact – to be invaluable. I am delighted to have had Lucia work with my organisation and will continue to use her as a much-valued associate.
Damien
S/W Engineering Manager - Aer Lingus
Time spent working with Liam Patel is time well spent. I found our coaching sessions thoroughly beneficial – always coming away with new thoughts on how to frame and address ideas and challenges I had.
It has really made me reflect upon how I approach work and those I work with – on a continual basis.
I can’t recommend him enough, and know the first place I’ll go when it comes time to build even further on what I have learnt.
Ross
Owner - GMC & Associates
I’ve known Lucia for many years both in banking and as a Business Coach. Her in-depth understanding of the SME world and candid, no-holds barred conversation – guides you to tackle and overcome blind-spots and barriers to growing your business.
She helps you look at your business in a different way, adopting a very practical approach to strategic planning and bringing clarity to the most complex of issues.
She’s a powerhouse to work with and highly recommended as a Business Coach.
Áine
Business Owner - Dainty Bear
I felt motivated and excited after each session having got the clarity I was lacking previously to start the next chapter in my new business.
Alem
Technical Account Manager - Microsoft
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