Recree8 Associates

Keith Deats

Kieth is a graduate of the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business in Advanced Business and Executive Coaching and an MBA graduate.  He has mentored for some 20 years as a methodology in his own Leadership of companies and actively coached for the past 4 years.  His approach has achieved considerable success in Ireland, Africa and the Caribbean, with organisations of various types, ranging from starts ups and small family enterprise to multi-national corporations.

Having trained extensively in business development, strategy and motivation, Kieth’s knowledge and practcial experience will help you to unlock the potential to grow your business. His qualifications include:-

• Business Economics Practitioners Doctorate (ongoing study)
• Certificate in Training and Continuing Education
• Diploma in Management Accounting (Distinction)
• Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner
• Advanced Management Diploma in Business & Executive Coaching
• Diploma in Industrial Relations
• Certificate in Executive Negotiations
• Diploma in Agriculture (First Class)

Julie-Anne Kitt

Julie-Anne holds an MBA from the Open University Business School and is certified by Kaplan & Norton as a practitioner in strategy execution. Her work is client centred and underpinned by knowledge & understanding gained through continuing professional development in; leadership, quality management, health and safety, stress management, and neuro-linguistic programming. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills have been developed during almost 30 years of work experience in

• corporate environments
• sports coaching
• the education sector
• family business

During recent years Julie-Anne has facilitated the development, execution and monitoring of strategy with organisations in the public, private and third sectors. Directorship of a third generation family business also provides a sound understanding of the real challenges affecting small to medium sized enterprises.

An enterprising character of personal integrity Julie-Anne possesses high levels of self awareness and adopts innovative approaches to creating strategy focussed solutions. She uses simple, practical, and jargon free tools to enable organisations of any size to align every day activity with strategic priorities. Regular continuing professional development ensures that techniques continue to be based on upon global best practice.

 Vincent Walshe

Vincent works as an Internet Marketing Consultant helping businesses to improve the returns that they achieve from their internet presence.  Prior to working as an internet marketing consultant, Vincent worked for 15 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry with Johnson and Johnson and Jacobs Engineering in quality and senior IT roles.

Vincent focuses on each company’s business strategy and by using the various internet marketing tools shapes this into an effective online strategy.  Vincent’s passion is to help the internet generate a strong Return on Investment and all of his efforts are focused on making his client’s websites into commercial successes.

He holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from University College Dublin and an MBA from the Open University and is also a certified Internet Marketing Consultant with WSI, the world’s largest internet marketing company.

Niall O’Reilly

Niall spent most of his working life in financial services, having been a Branch Manager with Irish Permanent at the tender age of 25 he was promoted to Regional Manager and later to Area General Manager. He was ultimately appointed Head of Retail in Irish Permanent with responsibility for the running of the Branch Network nationwide and a key member of the Executive Management Team. Following the merger of Irish Permanent and TSB in 2001 he was appointed to the new Executive Team as General Manager of Operations and gained valuable experience working on the Merger Integration Executive. He left the Bank in 2003 to take on the challenge of running his own business.

Executive Coaching, Senior Team Developement and Strategic Planning facilitation are the areas where he feels he is most effective and adds the best value. He has a particular passion for and interest in Career Transition Coaching having experienced significant change on a regular basis in his own career. He is keenly aware of the psychological challenges of leaving corporate life to establish a new life and new career.

Nial is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Coucil, The International Coaching Federation, The Irish Coaching Development Network and the International Postive Psychology Association. He carries full professional indemnity. He has an Advanced Management Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching from UCD Smurfit Business School which sees him qualified at level 9 in the new National Framework of Qualifications.

Tony O’Riordan

From 1989 until 2007 Tony was a Director of the DCC owned Allied Foods & Logistics. He was one of the senior management team who formed Allied through a Management Buyout in 1989.

During his time as a Director of Allied he was involved in a wide range of organisational issues across the full spectrum of business from strategy formulation through to service delivery. He has extensive experience of the ongoing pressures in organisational life and is particularly interested in leadership and development and its challenges in the organisational context.

Tony holds an MBA from the Open University Business School, a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching Psychology from Leeds Metropolitan University and is currently pursuing an MA in Business & Executive Coaching. He is qualified in the use of the Myers Briggs Typology Instrument and has used this very successfully in coaching practice. Tony brings a practical approach to coaching grounded in ‘Psychological Mindedness’ to bring about successful and lasting change. A strong business and strategic focus together with a ‘person centred’ approach underpins his style.

He has lectured and coached on the Executive MBA programme in UCC and carried out mentoring assignments on behalf of Enterprise Ireland, Cork City Enterprise Board and the Going4Growth programme which is sponsored by FAS. He is a Facilitator in the Cork area for The Irish Coaching Development Network and a member of the European Coaching and Mentoring Council. He is a member of the Board of Extern and Extern Ireland and is the current Chairman of the Southern Chapter of the MBA Association.

Jim McDonald

Jim McDonald has over 30 years experience in managing people in a manufacturing environment at management level.Jim qualified as a Life and Business Coach with the Irish LifeCoach Insititute and had been working as a Change Management Consultant for the past number of years.

“Jim has extensive process knowledge and combines this well with his ability to work with people and teams to communicate and engage with employees on change matters. Jim reported directly to senior management….We leveraged off Jim’s extensive management experience in operations, along with his coaching and facilitation capabilities to assist us with a number of key projects involving resourcing.staff deployment,change management and specific operational training delivery. ” Cait Hughes-Head of Operations; Paul Reidy-HR Country Manager GE Health