Adrienne O’Hare, CPsychol, is a highly qualified coaching professional, combining a Masters in Coaching and Positive Psychology with over twenty five years’ proven experience in delivering coaching, learning & development and HR solutions in multinational companies. She is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist awarded by the British Psychology Society (BPS).
Adrienne has held senior management roles in telecommunications and consulting organisations and has extensive experience in business set-ups, sales management, and achieving in target-driven environments.
When she was deciding which degree to do, her mother suggested psychology, “because you spend so much time on the phone listening to and helping your friends sort out their problems”. It was the best piece of advice Adrienne received as it spoke to her two passions people and science. When she graduated from Queens University Belfast with her BSc in Psychology in the early 90’s, coaching really only existed for athletes and hadn’t quite made its way into the world of business so Adrienne began her career in the next best thing, HRD. In the early 2000’s coaching was gathering momentum as a profession, however professional coach training hadn’t reached Ireland, so she began her initial training in accredited corporate coaching through the US based company Coach U.
She has furthered her training to include psychometric assessments such as personality assessments and emotional intelligence assessments, neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and achieved a distinction in her Masters in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology in 2018. In addition to this she was awarded Chartered Membership as a Chartered Coaching Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) in 2022. The title of Chartered Psychologist is a recognised title and reflects the highest standard of psychological knowledge and expertise.
With her strong passion for business and a belief in the potential of people and teams, Adrienne is inspired by working with individuals and teams to uncover ways to release and build on their potential in a way that delivers sustainable results. She gains real personal satisfaction in seeing people achieve their goals and sustain tangible improvements in their personal and professional lives. She builds and maintains lasting relationships with clients that reflect a desire to deeply listen to and understand their needs and a true commitment to supporting them to achieve their results. Adrienne is a trusted advisor, coach and mentor to a wide range of organisations and is driven by a desire to seek out proven scientific methods and apply them in a practical way to support her clients to get the results they seek.
In addition to her energy and passion for supporting clients to reach their potential, Adrienne brings a healthy sense of fun to her coaching sessions.
The professionalism and quality of coaching is important to Adrienne who is a member of both the British and Irish Psychological Societies, the International Coaching Federation and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and their ethics and standards are upheld both through the quality and approach of the coaching solutions and how she conducts herself in the coaching relationship.
Fun Fact : After years of avoiding swimming pools (even on holiday) as the water was too cold and wet, Adrienne signed up for a try-a-tri (triathlon) with her buddies so she could get a night away with the girls. From this a ‘love’ of swimming was born and she is now a daily sea dipper. Her family still can’t wrap their heads around it.
Is a member of the coaching panel for a number of organisations and is experienced in coaching all levels from team member to senior management in areas such as leadership, management development, flourishing, personal effectiveness, balance, conflict management, team development, organisational development, change management, strategy development and implementation and talent development. As a positive psychology (PP) practitioner and certified in psychometric assessments, uses psychological assessments and pp interventions to support coaching where relevant.
Engaged to coach numerous senor leaders across multiple industries to support them to enhance their leadership capability applying positive psychology approaches such as strengths development and emotional intelligence coaching to support clients to improve performance, achieve goals, provide tools for difficult conversations, build confidence and enhance overall wellbeing and energy levels.
Has both extensively researched this topic and worked with numerous leaders to support them to optimise how they respond to stress, create practical and effective coping strategies, manage conflicting and multiple demands, enhance both their wellbeing and energy levels and build their resilience capability.
Worked with aspiring and experienced female leaders in both large global organisations and medium sized organisations to support them to navigate the challenges of progressing within the corporate environment in a way that is authentic to them.
Has extensive experience in coaching and developing high performing teams. Has been called upon to diagnose communication challenges and support executive teams to improve their team dynamics and work more effectively together. Through the use of psychometric assessments such as emotional intelligence and individual/group coaching, facilitates senior teams to engage with each other and communicate in a more open way, supporting individual and team flourishing.
Has been engaged by organisations across numerous industries to design and develop team interventions that support greater cohesion, communication, collaboration, alignment and performance in teams from executive level through to functional and operational level. Uses a variety of psychometric and 360 profiling tools along with team/group and one to one coaching, to support team members at both individual and group level to flourish.
Has been engaged as a coach, mentor and advisor, for a number of senior leadership and executive teams to coach and support them in the challenges faced in undergoing major organisational change projects. Has been engaged to facilitate effective teamworking and communication for teams in transition and with changing dynamics. Furthermore, has supported business leaders and senior management teams in shaping and implementing organisational strategy. Organisational Development – As a member of a senior leadership team has held a pivotal role in the development and implementation of organisational strategy. Has had direct involvement in OD initiatives including: culture change, leadership development, process and performance improvement, strategic planning and team-building. Has also had experience in integration of organisational cultures following acquisition.
Designed and delivered online coaching sessions for remote teams to encourage greater communication and improved ways of working. Coaching teams to revisit their purpose, vision and values and enable them to adapt more easily to the remote working context that has arisen due to the pandemic.
Worked with numerous individuals to successfully identify, plan for and successfully take the next step in their career path. Has worked with rising talent and high potentials to support them to grow their leadership capability and become more rounded leaders, ready to progress within their organisations. Has designed, developed and implemented talent management and succession planning programmes (including the research and design of a bespoke 360 management assessment tool), psychometric assessments and robust management development programmes. Behavioural Frameworks – Has delivered projects focused on developing and implementing behavioural structures and frameworks, which bring cohesion in a time of continual change. Has carried out competency and contextual inquiry interviews across businesses, which contributed to the development of competency frameworks.
Responsible for the design and delivery of numerous training and development solutions for clients within all industry sectors. Solutions have varied from the development of one day programmes which are part of the core skills curriculum of multinational organisations to complex two-year executive development programmes across a number of geographical areas.
Communications Regulator; Competition and Consumer Protection Commission; Royal College of Surgeons Ireland; GSK; Danone; Accenture; Suir Engineering; Chief State Solicitors Office; Regulator of the National Lottery; Central Bank; Engineers Ireland; Dublin Airport Authority; Tourism Ireland; Mercury Engineering; White Young Green; Irish Life.
Chartered Coaching Psychologist (Doctorate Level)
British Psychological Society
Masters in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology (Distinction)
University of East London
BSc Honours Degree in Psychology
Queens University Belfast
Diploma in Training & Development Management
CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development)
British Psychological Society
LEVEL A & B Psychometric Assessment Accreditation
NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming)
Licensed training specialist accreditation
‘Coach-U’
Professional coaching qualification
Baron EQi Assessor
Accredited to administer and coach the Emotional Intelligence self and 360 tools
Strengths-Based Coaching
Training in using a positive psychology strengths-based approach in coaching and use of the strengths tool.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
Introductory Guide to Recognising Trauma, Responding Skilfully and Preventing Re-traumatisation
Advanced Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Widening the Window of Tolerance and Supporting Trauma Recovery
Psychological & Positive Psychology Research
Has a specialist interest in the areas of mindsets, resilience, stress and flourishing. Contributed to the emerging field of research in positive psychology in the area of stress mindsets with quantitative research on the effect of stress mindset coping, stress and wellbeing in individuals. Further research on stress mindsets and flourishing in individuals has commenced. Additional research areas include the impact of mindfulness on individual wellbeing, the influence of humour strategies on resilience and wellbeing and the potential for positive psychology solutions to address burn out and employee engagement.
British Psychological Society (CPschol)
Division of Occupational Psychology & Special Interest Coaching Group
Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI)
Special Interest Coaching Group (PSI)
International Coach Federation (ICF)
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD)
European Mentoring and Coaching Council (Senior Practitioner)
Institute of Positive Psychology Coaching (IPPC) – Faculty Instructor & Supervisor