Betty O’Callaghan – Executive Coach and Mentor
Background
An executive coach and mentor since 2015, Betty also taught coaching skills on the Masters in Applied Psychology & Work & Organisational Psychology in University College Cork. She co-facilitated (with Miriam O’Connell) the Leadership Framework Module of the MBA 2021/2022, Cork University Business School (UCC), and provided the associated executive coaching for MBA participants.
Previously, Betty was a member of the Retail Network Leadership Team (Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland) at Bank of Ireland. As Head of Human Resources for the Retail Branch Network, she led the HR Business Partner Team in planning and implementing the people strategy and in providing coaching and advice to management on leadership, performance management, employee engagement, communication, talent management, succession planning, selection, skills development, restructuring, and change management. Her earlier career included various roles in branch banking, lending to the SME sector, and leading on significant projects across the Branch Network.
Areas of Specialisation
While clients operate in a variety of contexts, most are in management or leadership roles, typically engaging with significant challenges such as creating a vision & strategy, leading change, inspiring performance & innovation, delegation, prioritisation, enhancing communication with and understanding of colleagues and engaging positively with stakeholders and organisational politics. Betty also supports people transitioning from senior specialised/professional roles to managing teams/taking on a leadership role, helping with self-awareness, emotional intelligence and elevating thinking to strategic and longer terms perspectives. Betty coaches organisational clients in the public, multinational, and private sectors including financial services, pharmaceutical, SME, educational, local government, and healthcare arenas.
Coaching Approach
Betty brings a wealth of experience in the dynamics of effective leadership and management in today’s complex world. She facilitates you in cutting through overwhelm, guilt, and even exhaustion by helping you connect or reconnect with what’s truly fundamental to you as leader – resulting in clarity, energy, and an ongoing capacity for self renewal.
In collaboration with her clients, she creates a safe and potent thinking space, facilitating conversations that enable them connect with who they truly are – and who they want to become. Believing that the best leaders are those who can connect with the best of what’s within themselves, Betty adopts a holistic coaching approach, unlocking your highest potential to maximise your impact and enhance your life experience.
Coaching with Betty is a warm-hearted, challenging, solution-focused experience, with clients tapping into their positive energy and inner wisdom, igniting enthusiasm, creativity, energy, and focus. Betty is inspired by the insights, courage, and capacity of clients as they ignite their inner confidence and initiate actions to achieve their visions, enabling themselves, their teams, and their organisations to thrive.
As a partner in Mojo For Leaders, Betty is deeply committed to its mission to ‘nurture the spirit inside all leaders, that ‘Mojo’ that when allowed to grow, enables us to be a powerful, positive force in our world.’
Coaching Qualifications and Associations
- MSc. in Personal and Management Coaching, UCC, 2015 (Thesis explored the experience and coaching needs of senior leaders in organisations).
- Fellow level Member of the Association for Coaching.
- Higher Diploma in Coaching and Coaching Psychology, UCC, 2012.
- Registered Member of the British Psychological Society as a tester for Ability and Personality Assessments including 15FQ+ Personality Profiles, Values-based Indicator of Motivation (VbIM), Jung Type Indicators (JTI), and Emotional Intelligence profile.
- Accredited with Focus Leadership for individual and team-based FEBI (Focus Energy Balance Indicator) profiles and interventions.
- Certificate in Embodied Coaching Approaches including Trauma Aware Coaching, Coaches Rising, 2020.
- Member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) SouthWest Coaching Circle (ICF Coaching Circle of the Year, 2022)
Testimonial
“All my coaching engagements with Betty have made me feel special, valued and inspired – these are the core competencies of any top-performing coach. Betty has an innate ability to listen and pose questions that spark personal insights. Equally impressive is Betty’s ability to summarise input and play it back in a way that leaves you feeling inspired and challenged in equal measure.”
Brian Cleary, Managing Director BOI Payment Acceptance Ireland & UK
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
Outstanding! I enjoyed every minute of it and learned so much along the way.
One of the single best learnings I have experienced in my career.
The experience continues even after the last session, this is a remarkable opportunity.
The interactive sessions, open discussion and opportunity to reflect is key. This is a differentiator for me.
I got a much greater appreciation of the fact that leadership is all about relationships and the importance of developing the skills to forge strong connections.
Design thinking which stretches the individual to think differently.
