| Michael McKiernan has spent the last 10 years delivering projects across the public and private sectors in Ireland, the UK and across Europe, helping to develop core values, culture and leadership to improve performance. These projects have involved large-scale assessment programmes for a financial services organisation, consulting skills courses for technical directors of a large telecom company, down to one-to-one coaching of a large FMCG company for senior managers across Europe. He has experience in quality assurance and training and development in the logistics industry in the USA, and several years’ experience managing development and learning for an international development organisation in Dublin. Michael’s background is based in translation for both French and Spanish, and he has delivered behaviour and leadership programmes and facilitated workshops across Europe and North America.
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Questions and Answers
What’s the most valuable lesson you have learned, and who do you have to thank for it?
Life is more than things to do and worry about … family and friends are the most important, and we should always take time to enjoy. I have my children to thank.
If you could talk to your younger self, what advice would you give them?
Enjoy life and don’t sweat the small stuff!
What is the single thing you still most need to learn?
How to listen.
What do you hope your legacy will be?
My children are happy and content in their lives; and they smile when they remember growing up.
What is the most surprising thing you’ve ever discovered about yourself?
That I am really not that “relaxed” or “laid back” at all!
What one thing do you think every organisation would most benefit from doing, or doing differently?
An organisation is made up of people, not things. How you manage people is where success originates.
What is your worst habit?
Still talking when I should stop!
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