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Val Neenan Executive Coach Cork

Val Neenan

Hi, I am Val. I am an Executive Leadership Coach. Coaching is my passion, and helping professionals bring back the magic into their daily lives and thrive is a joy to see.

What do I do? I assist senior executives, directors, and managers in navigating career transitions, advancing professionally, and cultivating a more balanced and fulfilling life.

To explain: Executive coaching trains executives to manage people, teams, and organisations effectively. Leadership coaching, on the other hand, focuses on helping individuals develop their leadership skills and capabilities, enabling them to inspire and lead their teams successfully.

I have over 30 years of experience in multinational corporations and the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, including companies like Boston Scientific, Pfizer, GSK, Wyeth Medica, and Laya Healthcare. In these roles, my work as an executive coach was pivotal to the success of the organisation. My coaching has supported executives in enhancing their leadership skills, improving team dynamics, and achieving their personal and professional goals.

I am a very passionate and committed individual with strong values of integrity and honesty. I have a natural intuitive ability to work with individuals, helping them develop and realise their worth and potential. My coaching approach is highly empathetic and tailored to each client, ensuring they receive the support they need to thrive.

As an excellent listener, my communication style is open, warm, compassionate, and understanding. I believe in creating a safe and supportive environment where clients can explore their challenges and opportunities without judgement.

Qualifications:

  • Diploma in Life and Business Coaching

  • MA in Human Resources and Occupational Psychology

  • BA in Psychology

My extensive educational background and professional experience equip me with the knowledge and skills to provide top-tier executive and leadership coaching. I am dedicated to empowering my clients to achieve excellence in their careers and personal lives.

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About Me

Val Neenan

Hi, I am Val Neenan. I am an Executive Leadership Coach. Coaching is my passion, and helping professionals bring back the magic into their daily lives and thrive is a joy to see.

What do I do? I assist senior executives, directors, and managers in navigating career transitions, advancing professionally, and cultivating a more balanced and fulfilling life.

To explain: Executive coaching trains executives to manage people, teams, and organisations effectively. Leadership coaching, on the other hand, focuses on helping individuals develop their leadership skills and capabilities, enabling them to inspire and lead their teams successfully.

I have over 30 years of experience in multinational corporations and the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, including companies like Boston Scientific, Pfizer, GSK, Wyeth Medica, and Laya Healthcare. In these roles, my work as an executive coach was pivotal to the success of the organisation. My coaching has supported executives in enhancing their leadership skills, improving team dynamics, and achieving their personal and professional goals.

I am a very passionate and committed individual with strong values of integrity and honesty. I have a natural intuitive ability to work with individuals, helping them develop and realise their worth and potential. My coaching approach is highly empathetic and tailored to each client, ensuring they receive the support they need to thrive.

As an excellent listener, my communication style is open, warm, compassionate, and understanding. I believe in creating a safe and supportive environment where clients can explore their challenges and opportunities without judgement.

Qualifications:

  • Diploma in Life and Business Coaching
  • MA in Human Resources and Occupational Psychology
  • BA in Psychology

My extensive educational background and professional experience equip me with the knowledge and skills to provide top-tier executive and leadership coaching. I am dedicated to empowering my clients to achieve excellence in their careers and personal lives.

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My Services

Executive Coaching

Executive coaching is an individualised one-to-one relationship designed to assist executives in developing and enhancing their professional effectiveness and on-the-job performance

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Leadership Coaching

Leadership coaching focuses on helping individuals develop their leadership skills and capabilities. By investing in leadership coaching it can empower leaders to reach their full potential

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Testimonials

I would highly recommend Val as an executive coach. Working with Val is a pleasure. Val helped me to evaluate my beliefs and values as well as helping me to face the future with a renewed confidence and purpose.It truly has been a life changing experience which has increased my self awareness and provided me with a platform to approach my career and life in a measured and balanced way.I found the whole process to be tremendously rewarding.
Fiachra B
Val is a wonderful Executive Coach and I am delighted to be able to make this recommendation on her behalf. I initially sought the help of a career coach as I had been feeling somewhat disillusioned by the career choices I had made; and following a web search decided to meet with Val for an introductory meeting. Val’s warm and personable manner immediately made me feel at ease and we planned a course of action for our sessions; which were not only fun and interesting, but also very goal oriented and intent on getting to the heart of the problems experienced.Since undertaking the sessions, the insight I have gained with regard to my own strengths, values and personal blocks is so profound and have positively affected not only my career, but my relationships and my whole attitude to life as well. The clarity with which I now set and attain my goals is astounding when I consider how muddled I was six months ago!Never have I undertaken such a worthwhile investment and I would highly recommend anyone in need of a positive mentor in their lives to meet with Val. She is an amazing Coach and the passion and energy she brings to her sessions is absolutely inspiring.
Fiona
I would highly recommend Val as an Exeutive Coach. After our first meeting, Val tailor-made a career and life review programme for me.During our sessions we went through my life goals, what I valued in life along with my skills set. With this programme, I was able to see more clearly what was really important to me and with guidance from Val took necessary steps to deciding to make a life changing career move.Without Val, I would never have made the change, embracing the fear but doing it anyway. Thank you!
EJ
I am pleased to write this recommendation letter on behalf of Val Neenan. I had the pleasure of participating in Val’s Executive Coaching Course of the summer months of 2013. Val is pleasant, positive and makes her coaching sessions fun, interesting and extremely thought provoking. While being direct and honest she created a good balance between supporting me and making me confront my blocks.I have gained tremendous insight into my blocks as well as my strengths. This work has provided a quantum shift in the way I think and has empowered all aspects of my life.Because of her coaching sessions I am now more hopeful, energetic and motivated about my career.It is obvious that Val loves what she does and was committed to my success. I thoroughly both enjoyed and benefited from her coaching sessions tremendously. Her intuition and experience, her training and warm heart make her a wonderful coach.I would recommend her work to anyone who unsure of their direction in life seeks a helping hand.
Bernie Healy
Val is great Executive Coach!She is a true professional and her goal is to help you figure out where you want to go and how to get there. She works really hard to understand who you are and what you value. I quickly realized that Val is someone that I could really trust.Together we uncovered my talents and some forgotten passions and as a result of this process, I built up my confidence and now I have a clear vision of my career goals.I would like to thank Val for her support, patience, understanding and belief in me.I would highly recommend her services.
Yuki Hatano
After a year struggling with my career choices I decided to seek out help and advice. I initially met Valerie for a chat and I knew straight away that she would be able to help me. Throughout each session we explored my goals and needs in my life and career. Valerie encouraged me to follow my passion in life. I would look forward to every session because I began to feel more enthusiastic and confident in my career options.I found Valerie very professional, gentle and very aware of my personal needs. She taught me to have more confidence in myself and to be proud of all of my achievements.Valerie has given me the awareness and confidence that I believe I never would have found without her. Her general positivity and enthusiasm was exactly what I needed.I would have no hesitation in recommending Valerie and I endeavour to keep in contact with her in the future.
Lisa Healy
I recently sought out an Executive Coach to help me explore career change options and deal with issues in my current employment. I came across Val Neenan through a web search and took a chance. It was a bit of a risky strategy but it thankfully worked out really well. I found Val really easy to engage with personally and liked her communication style.Following an initial meeting which was very positive, she outlined a plan for the coming weeks. We followed a clear process from start to end that involved me doing some homework between face-to-face sessions over a period of 8 weeks. It was structured and realistic and when we finished the final session she even reimbursed me for finishing a little earlier than anticipated, which I found incredibly generous and honest.She is insightful and observant and I felt she really identified what help I needed and was able to provide that help to me in a very positive and constructive manner. The whole process was thoroughly enjoyable and really helped me gain insights and perspective on current work problems and opened my eyes to the potential for other career opportunities. I left feeling re-energised and positive and I have Val to thank for that.Personally I would highly recommend her to anyone needing help with improving their current work situation or considering changing careers.
Michelle
I am incredibly grateful that I met and worked with Val. After returning home from living abroad for several years, I was at a transition point in my life both personally and professionally.Working with Val during this time, I found that she has an ability and is truly unique. She used her extensive professional experience to guide me in the practical aspects of finding the right career while also giving me a strong understanding of myself, my skills and the life I want to live.I looked forward to every session with Val and thanks to Val's coaching and the incredible CV she helped me build, I got the first job I applied for. I would highly recommend Val to anyone.
Sarah Crilly
I had a coaching session with Val to explore some new areas of work, discuss things I'd already done and make a new start into making that happen. Once we started talking and Val started asking me questions, it gave me the space to open up and work through some blocks I was having. To understand some of the resistance I was experiencing to the change itself and as result of that, I identified some of my passions, interests and the kind of work I would love to do, plus the audiences to offer it to.Val was great at listening to what I was saying and feeding it back to me, which at times challenged me but that's how you get over yourself and work through things. She gave me some ideas that were relevant to what I had said, thus helping me to open my mind further and think bigger, with more clarity and specification.Since our session, I felt more confident about my skills and my abilities. I applied for some work straight away and I have been shortlisted for it, pending my final decision and I have also been contacted by an agency who have found my details online. All in all, a great session that has opened me up to ask for what I want, allow it in and receive it. The rest us up to me now.Thank you Val, your help was very valuable and concise, I appreciate it.
Lou
I couldn’t recommend Val highly enough! When I came to her, I had made the difficult decision to leave the job I thought I had wanted since I was a child…. And so had no idea what way to turn! Val helped me to realise my transferable skills and talents, and what it is that I desire (and don’t) from a job. She listened with compassion and supported me to identify other potential roles that I may be interested in. She also helped me to network with professionals in other careers that I felt I might be interested in, and I am now in talks with one of them about potential job opportunities for the months ahead. Without Val, I would never have made those connections, or even known what way to turn. I now feel so much more happy and confident in the path my changing career is taking! Thank you Val!
Rachel Lawlor
Having been unexpectedly forced into the jobs market after 26 years of full time employment, I soon realized I needed to raise my game to compete for senior roles against the current generation of highly qualified and experienced candidates. I found Val on LinkedIn and arranged to meet. She was very easy to talk to, and offered very helpful feedback. Speaking to Val was very reassuring. It helped me realize that I hadn't forgotten all I had learned in my 26 years in the med-tech sector. Following our conversations, I recognized the areas I needed to improve on. It was all about delivering my message clearly and more concisely. I feel these minor changes helped in getting me over the line. I believe I will be a really excellent "fit" for my new position. I can’t wait to get started!!! For anyone who is wondering why things aren't falling into place for them after participating in what seem like excellent interviews, I would recommend you arrange a chat with Val now.
Brian Coomey
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