Meet the Experts
We’ve brought together deep sectoral experts with diverse skills who are motivated to help you design your optimal post-retirement life.
Futurythm Coaches
Clodagh Nic Canna
Clodagh Nic Canna works with Executive and Mid-career leaders. Her Systemic Coaching approach is designed to uncover and understand the underlying patterns, relationships, behaviours and dynamics that can help shape decisions, future vision, and next actions. Often, even a small change in perspective can have a hugely positive impact in...
Córa Garvey
Córa Garvey works with clients wishing to navigate change, retirement, and mid-life challenges in both their careers and personal life goals. Her approach is evidence-based, creative, and deeply holistic, designed to foster the clarity and confidence needed to navigate major transitions or significant life challenges. Córa offers her coaching through...
Denise Walshe
Denise Walshe, works with senior clients navigating significant professional transitions through both coaching and mentoring. Her approach is grounded, human, and draws on deep real-world experience alongside ICF-accredited systemic coaching methodology. It creates clarity, renewed purpose, and the confidence to define what comes next on your own terms. This approach...
Irene Murphy-Schwitzer
Irene has a warm and calm approach. She helps people see the various ‘systems’ or cultures they are part of, and the patterns they help create – the helpful and the unhelpful, and the stressful ones they are stuck in and want to change. She helps them recognize which problems...
James Tomlinson
James Tomlinson works with executive, senior leadership and high-potential clients, as well as leadership teams looking to improve performance, alignment and culture. His approach is systemic, direct and thought-provoking, combining real-world leadership experience with coaching that develops clearer thinking, stronger ownership and meaningful action. It creates lasting behavioural change, stronger...
Margaret Bishop
Margaret is known for her unique blend of professionalism and empathy, integrating a human touch with her executive coaching expertise. With a rich background spanning Media, Financial Services, Professional Services, FMCGs, Pharmaceuticals, Health Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Public Sector, NGOs, and Cosmetics, Margaret is well-equipped to support executives through the complex...
Subject Matter Experts
- Passion, Pension Pot, Purpose
Amanda-Jayne Comyn
Amanda is a Director at Circulo, a specialist tax advisory practice. She is a Barrister-at-Law, Chartered Tax Adviser, and Trusts and Estates Practitioner (TEP) with over 25 years’ experience advising on complex tax matters. Amanda has extensive expertise in corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, property transactions, and stamp duty,...
- People, Personhood, Place, Progression, Purpose
Anne Connolly
Anne Connolly is the visionary founder of Cohousing Communities Ireland, pioneering a model already proven in countries like Denmark — intentional communities where people over 50 design and shape how and where they want to live into their later years. Homes with their own front doors and genuine privacy, set...
- People, Performance, Purpose
Barbara Louise Brennan
Barbara Louise Brennan is an award-winning mental health advocate, keynote speaker and founder of Mental Health Matters. A suicide survivor with more than 15 years of national leadership in mental health, she combines lived experience with expertise in workplace mental health, human rights and organisational culture to help people better...
- Passion, Pathfinding, Performance, Pleasure, Purpose
Brian Pennie
Brian Pennie is a doctor of neuroscience and psychology, a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, an author, an award-winning TV presenter, a podcast host, and the founder of Change is Possible. Having transformed his own life after overcoming heroin addiction in 2013, Brian now works with individuals and organisations around...
- Passion, Pension Pot, Purpose
Carl Widger
Carl is a driven and focused individual with decades of experience in financial services and wealth management. He is evangelical about excellence in financial planning and its ability to transform lives. On founding Metis Ireland in 2014, he championed a client-centric approach driven by an evidence-based investment strategy. The upward...
- Pathfinding, People, Performance
Diane Pelly
Dr. Diane Pelly is an applied behavioural scientist, behavioural economist, and founder of Behavioural Science At Work, an applied behavioural science consultancy that helps individuals and organisations apply evidence-based behavioural insights to improve decision-making, wellbeing and performance. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience across the private, public and...
- People, Place, Purpose
Donagh Horgan
Donagh Horgan is an urban development expert and academic-practitioner whose work bridges civic and service innovation, architecture, and urban design, with a research focus on social innovation in the built environment. He leads a living laboratory looking at societal transitions in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and outside academic practice works closely with...
- Passion, Pathfinding, Progression, Purpose
Donal O’Brien
Donal O’Brien is founder and chairman of Abrivia Recruitment Specialists and lead partner of Abrivia Executive. With more than twenty years’ experience in executive search, recruitment and leadership consulting, he has advised multinational organisations, high-growth businesses and thousands of professionals on career development, leadership and organisational transformation. As the author...
- Passion, Performance, Progression, Purpose
Jason Smith
Jason Smith is a 56-year-old Fitness Coach and owner of Fit in Midlife. He specialises in helping both midlife men and women improve their health and fitness. Before this, Jason had a successful corporate career, serving as an executive at a global media organisation, from which he retired at...
- Passion, Pathfinding, Performance, Pleasure, Purpose
Joanne Hession
Since her teenage years, Joanne Hession has been asking herself one question, over and over: am I on the right path – and if not, what am I going to do about it? That question took her from a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master’s in Business Studies at University...
- People, Performance, Purpose
Katie Chalcraft
Katie is a grief educator and grief coach. With over 20 years of experience as a facilitator, she has created transformative experiences for individuals and organisations across over 20 countries, including international development organisations, multinationals, and the United Nations. She holds an MA in Mindfulness-based Core Process Psychotherapy. In September...
- Passion, People, Performance, Pleasure
Kay Scorah
There are many versions of Kay Scorah, here are some of them: The biochemist. Her BSc Hons in Biochemistry from King’s College, London was followed by a year at the Max Planck Institut für Biophysik in Frankfurt studying the sidedness of anion transport across the erythrocyte membrane. That went so...
- Pathfinding, People, Performance, Place, Pleasure, Progression
Kingsley Aikins
Kingsley Aikins is the co-founder and CEO of The Diaspora Institute(TDI). In collaboration with his colleagues in TDI he has contributed to diaspora engagement in over 50 countries. He has written extensively on the topic and developed a range of online training programmes on diaspora. He is also the founder...
- Passion, Pathfinding, People, Purpose
Mary Mayenfisch-Tobin
A Lecturer on Business Law, Ethics, Human Rights and Business, Mayenfisch-Tobin is a global thought-leader and speaker. She is an accredited mediator and an independent advisor on Business and Human Rights. As Director of the US Pepperdine University Swiss programme (2006-2012), she taught and supervised the internship programme, working with...
- Pathfinding, People, Progression, Purpose
Mary McBride
Mary McBride is an accomplished coach, communication strategist, and consultant to enterprise leaders around the globe. As head of the leadership development practice at Strategies for Planned Change, she empowers executives to navigate complex organisational challenges and drive meaningful transformation. Mary is the designer and leader of Pratt Institute’s international...
- Passion, Performance, Personhood, Purpose
Nadalette La Fonta
I am a messenger of words, conveying my upheavals and convictions in my books: “Our storms are as big as our dreams: A Manifesto for not missing out on life”, my latest which has just been released, and “The Leaning Reed, the story of a wonderful operation” , so that...
- Pathfinding, People, Performance, Personhood, Purpose
Padraig Walsh
Padraig Walsh is a Chartered Behavioural Psychologist and Director of ChangeAble Behaviour Solutions. He works with organisations, public bodies, and individuals across Ireland, Europe and the UK, helping translate behavioural science into practical strategies that support better decision-making, healthier habits, and meaningful life transitions. Padraig’s work focuses on how people...
- People, Performance, Personhood, Purpose
Poll Moussoulides
If you’re asking yourself who you are without your job title, the team and the trappings, if you’re wondering how you will be remembered, if your burning question is, ‘what is the point of me?’ this is a conversation not to be missed. Early in Futurythm Founder, Sonya Lennon’s career,...
- Passion, Performance, Personhood, Pleasure, Purpose
Sonya Lennon
Sonya Lennon is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, social innovator, and international speaker with over thirty years’ experience in business and leadership. As founder of Dress for Success Ireland (now Work Equal), Sonya has empowered over 4,000 women to achieve employment and economic independence, evolving the organisation into a leading advocate for...
- People, Place, Pleasure, Progression
Tiu De Haan
A ritual designer, creative facilitator, educator, and “serendipiter,” Tiu de Haan has spent two decades crafting transformative experiences that connect people to creativity, community, and the possibility of wonder. As a ritual designer, Tiu creates bespoke ceremonies for individuals and organisations navigating moments of change. Highlights include leading a dawn...
- Passion, Pathfinding, People, Place
Tren’ness Woods-Black
Tren’ness Woods-Black is a visionary strategist, culture-preneur, and global ambassador of hospitality—widely known as ‘The Queen of Hospitality’ for her dynamic ability to turn cultural authenticity into commercial and community success. Tren’ness is a lifelong advocate for social equity, entrepreneurship, and cultural preservation, transforming communities through alliances and connections. She...
