We chose Adrienne as our preferred coach for delivering 1:1 EQI coaching as part of our mentoring programme. Feedback from both mentors and mentees was extremely positive in how Adrienne helped them develop self-awareness, improve communication and strengthen work relationships. Since then we have engaged Adrienne’s coaching services to work with employees and Managers at all levels on a 1:1 basis. This coaching has been invaluable to help them enhance and develop their leadership skills and particularly in the areas of Performance Management, dealing with difficult relationships and effective team building.
Adrienne is a talented, natural coach who has the ability to connect with people and build trust. Her warm and engaging personality makes it easy for people to open up to her and enjoy the coaching journey. She is very intuitive and in addition to asking the right questions to help them succeed, she has a wealth of insight and experience to offer. I highly recommend Adrienne’s skills to anyone who knows they have more to offer and need the right coach to guide them to reach their true potential.
I recruited Adrienne to coach me through managing the programme of change required to merge two state agencies into one. I had never managed change on this scale before and we were working to a tight timeframe. Adrienne's combined expertise in change management and coaching meant that I learned about change management very quickly, cemented the learning at regular intervals, and I was able to rectify mistakes quickly and more effectively.
Adrienne was instrumental in helping me to achieve my three goals of (a) maintaining open communication and good relationships across my peers in the senior management of both legacy organisations, (b) providing leadership to the wider staff, and (c) providing effective support to the decision makers, while delivering the required outputs within a challenging timeframe. This success - and the value of the coaching - was recognised by the new organisation and we recruited Adrienne again for a subsequent coaching project.
I first met Adrienne in 2010 and when my then employer engaged her services to carry out leadership development with the senior executive team. Part of the development was an exercise in personality profiling and 360 feedback. Adrienne’s coaching excelled at helping me interpret the output of the reports and putting those outputs into an action plan that helped put my career on a really positive trajectory.
This resulted in my promotion to company COO and eventually CEO over a 4-year period.
Over the years I have continued to use Adrienne both personally and for businesses that I have led with continued positive outcomes.
Recently my company engaged Adrienne to help with identifying the next level of leaders in our business. The process entailed running a selection process to identify and promote the successful candidates. The process required interviewing, using personality profiling and coaching. The outcome was very successful, resulting in the successful candidates helping increase the capacity of the business and with no loss of the unsuccessful candidates. Adrienne’s advice and trustful engagement with all the candidates was key to the positive outcome.
I would highly recommend Adrienne for coaching existing leaders and aspiring leaders as she provides a very personable, confidential brand of coaching that uses scientific methods which helps her clients find a way to fulfil their potential.
I am the head of the legal team in a large public sector agency. The team has recently undergone internal restructuring and expansion, with the recruitment of a number of new staff. I felt it would be helpful to arrange a session with an external facilitator to discuss the team’s strengths and to build team cohesion. In the context of remote working, I also thought it would be useful to discuss as a team how we could improve our current ways of working.
We identified Adrienne as a good fit to act as a facilitator for our session based on her extensive previous experience and on the excellent feedback we received from other organisations that had used her services. During my initial discussions with Adrienne, I was extremely impressed with her responsiveness, her ability to act quickly to develop a plan for the session and her intuitive understanding of the team’s needs. Adrienne has a wealth of experience in designing team-building sessions and a keen understanding of team dynamics, which meant that she could anticipate and address any issues before they arose and tailor a bespoke programme that very effectively catered to the team’s needs. She designed a session that included an excellent balance between small group breakout sessions and larger plenary discussions – it proved to be the most successful use of the Zoom platform that my team and I have experienced over the past year. The session was very relaxed, open, warm and engaging and allowed the team to bond with each other and to explore how we can work together for continued success. Adrienne provided us with a very helpful written action-list at the end of the session, which ensured that everyone’s views were captured and provided us with tangible outputs that the team could collectively and individually work on following the session.
Before the session, some members of my team were a bit sceptical about the likely benefits. However after the session they were all enthusiastic converts – thanks entirely to Adrienne’s excellent work in designing and facilitating the session! The session provided a real boost to the team and afforded us a wonderful opportunity to bond with each other – something that is so important in the current remote working environment. Adrienne’s background in psychology really shone through – she understands how teams work and how to create a positive, relaxed and open space for people to share their ideas. I would have no hesitation in recommending Adrienne’s services.
I was introduced to Adrienne in my previous role and I engaged her company to complete two significant interventions for our company over the last two years. The first was the design and facilitation of an interactive strategy session focusing on getting our senior managers to collaborate more effectively using their combined knowledge and experience, to agree plans to achieve both divisional targets and company strategic goals. The second, a leadership development program, focused on developing talented executives, supporting their progress as future leaders of our business.
The first difference I noticed between Adrienne and other (training) providers was how hard she listened to the needs of our company and what we wanted to achieve from these programs. The second difference was how effectively she was able to translate these into meaningful and enjoyable sessions. The solutions that Adrienne implemented for our organization were innovative, relevant and flexible. They were specifically tailored to suit our structure as well as our budget. The feedback that we received from participants on both sessions was universally positive and we have seen real results in our business as a direct outcome of these programs.
Adrienne was absolutely committed to the success of both programs. Her attention to detail, hands-on approach and genuine belief that people are a company’s most valuable resource helped make these two of the most successful interventions we have run in our organization.
I would hope that I have the opportunity to work with Adrienne again in the future and without hesitation recommend Adrienne O’Hare and her company to any business that wants to develop and harness the skills of their people to add real value to the bottom line of their business.
I engaged To Be Coaching to facilitate a series of workshops for two teams that were brought together to form one unit. The workshops allowed team members to explore and develop their roles in a safe and supportive environment and develop a series of actions and resulting behaviours to increase the support we provided to our members’. The engagement from To Be Coaching was exceptional because Adrienne was able identify the nub of an issue and present it to the team for greater understanding and discussion. The topics presented were relevant to the requirements of the team that worked in very specialised areas
Adrienne is the person that has had the greatest impact on improving my performance, accelerating my career and improving my quality of life. She is exceptionally thoughtful, kind and compassionate, and has been remarkable in how she has coached me through challenging situations in work and in life. She has helped me to become a more confident, happier, balanced (work/life) and high-performing version of myself, resulting in greater business results in less time, promotions at previous and current companies, salary increase >€40K, as well as meeting and becoming engaged to the love of my life. Adrienne brings a wealth of subject matter expertise to her coaching, as well as practical tools and techniques to help clients put her expertise into action. As a business leader, investing in Adrienne as a coach for anyone in your team is the best people capital investment that I believe you can make.
Adrienne recently assisted me prepare for a job interview. She helped me to understand the message I wanted to get across in just a few short sessions. She is very skilled at asking the right questions and helped me to see things from a different angle and gave me a new perspective.
Adrienne is an empathetic listener, very personable and insightful and I’ve no hesitation in recommending her for any coaching or consulting needs.