Celine is a psychologist (PhD), Coach and Master Practitioner of NLP. She is also an entrepreneur, actor, producer, and writer. Celine founded Act4Business in 2007 to integrate the experiential approach of the performance arts and film-making with the analysis and understanding of organisational psychology and business coaching. The drama-based approach to training is designed to highlight and illustrate life and work-place issues (reflection of real life) through the medium of real actors. Act 4 Business works regularly with a range of organisations including eircom, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Marketing Network, Children's University Hospital Temple St., Executive Coaching Solutions, Irish Management Institute (IMI), Royal College Surgeons Ireland (RCSI), Health Services Executive (HSE). St. James' Hospital, Brown Thomas, Business in the Community (BITC), and Google. For more information see www.a4b.ie.

Irial started her career in Financial Services in Sydney, Australia, then in Boston, USA. Her interest in the “Art of Management” and what makes some people perform better than others quickly led her into management roles, where she gained front-line experience in developing and motivating her team to consistently deliver a high-quality product. Prior to leaving Boston, she became heavily involved in an organisation design project, which had been prompted by a merger. Through this, she gained huge insight into how organisations work and how to overcome widespread resistance to change. Upon returning to Dublin, Irial moved into Training and Development. She worked for 6 years in a leading Funds company, setting up and developing their training department. During her time there, Irial grew the department from just herself to a team of 6 trainers and 3 training rooms. The team designed and delivered a range of both technical and soft skills courses. By reducing its reliance on recruiting from an already tight labour market, the company was able to continually take on new business, allowing it to quadruple in size over that period. In addition to training, Irial designed a competency framework and successfully introduced competency-based recruitment and performance management processes throughout the company. In 2006, Irial qualified in Executive Coaching and set up Evolution Consulting to work with clients to increase their bottom-line by improving individual, team and organisational performance. Her work has ranged from re-designing a Funds company’s business processes as a result of a system change, designing and implementing a Management Development Programme for an Engineering company, guiding a small manufacturing company to bring a new product to market, working with managers to develop their personal leadership capabilities to working with a Senior Management Team of a Not-for-Profit organisation in areas such as Strategy and Performance Management. Irial continues to update her own skills and is one of only a handful of people in Ireland qualified in Reuven Bar-On’s 360 Emotional Intelligence assessment tool and Leadership & Self-Deception.

As Cisco’s General Manager of Ireland, Kim is responsible for the team covering many operations; including Sales, Engineering, Development, Capital, Advanced Services, Government Affairs and Finance. As a Chicago native, Kim began her career at a leading telecoms provider in 1993 before joining Cisco’s channel organisation in the US in 2000. Having been recognised as someone with a desire to extend her experience across other areas of the business Kim moved to Ireland in 2006 to lead the Network Integrator team for the UK & Ireland. Kim is actively involved in Cisco’s Development Forum, Mentoring Scheme as well as joining the Steering Committee for the Irish Parliament’s Minister of Education’s ‘ICT in the Classroom’. She is also on the steering committee for the recently launched global initiative ‘Your Country, Your Call’, the competition to encourage innovative proposals that can help foster economic renewal in Ireland. Under Kim’s lead, Cisco Ireland was named as a Top 15 Places to work in Ireland in 2010 and Top 50 Places to Work in Ireland in 2009, Cisco also received a special recognition award for being one of the top three companies for embracing diversity.

Bernie has 22 years of knowledge and experience with Microsoft Operations. She has held multiple senior roles with Microsoft, including: Group Senior Manager – OEM Channel; Chief of Staff for OEM; Senior Manager in Regional Operations Services and Senior PM for MS Courseware in addition to many others. Currently she has responsibility for the Customer Engagement model for OEM Customers in EMEA, field engagement including the alignment with Microsoft’s OEM Sales Leads, as well as line responsibility for support teams. Bernie is a motivated leader who drives transformational change to deliver quality results.