I listen so you can hear yourself think

1:1 bespoke leadership & executive coaching and development

Aine O'Keeffe executive leadership coach in Belfast

photography by Jonathan Ryder

Áine O’Keeffe

I coach people who want to build great places to work and to create more meaningful roles for themselves and the people they lead.

I work with leaders to catalyse their thinking, enabling them to generate new perspectives and to explore how to respond more adaptively to the issues they encounter as they lead their organisations and teams with purpose.

I’m based in Belfast, Northern Ireland where the beautiful landscape lends itself to walking coaching, and offer coaching both in person and online.

“Áine’s craft skills are in the actual art of coaching: to draw out of you what you need to think about, what you want, what matters to you and how you can achieve it.”
— JA, start-up CTO and co-founder

How coaching can help you

  • You can explore and deepen your leadership qualities and behaviours, enabling you to lead with authenticity and confidence.

  • You can engage constructively with your inner critic and saboteurs to ‘get out of your own way’ 

  • You can reduce overwhelm so you can make better decisions in the right frame of mind

  • You can explore the ways in which you can build your tolerance for stress and your adaptability in the face of complexity. Understand the triggers that can unravel you and the values that anchor you.

  • You are supported at times of transition - whether moving up in your work, moving on to a new phase of your career or moving into a different role.

I offer you a structure to guide your thinking and a sounding board to bounce ideas off, getting you where you need to go.

“You’ve given me so much to think about, and this will really help me focus on what the important things are in the early stages. I’m also a convert to the coaching process—incredibly helpful as a way of clearing the mind and getting new angles on things.”
— Dean, UK university
  • Penrose Triangle by Lluisa Iborra from the Noun Project

    Explore your leadership qualities

    You can explore and deepen your leadership qualities and behaviours, enabling you to lead with authenticity and confidence.

  • optical illusion by GREY Perspective from the Noun Project

    Acknowledge your expertise

    You are the expert in you and your context: coaching gives you an opportunity to pause and reflect on what matters to you in a structured way with supportive questioning.

  • optical illusion by pedro baños cancer from the Noun Project

    Look at issues through new lenses.

    Through coaching, you are invited to look at issues through a range of different lenses and frameworks, able to take clear-eyed and courageous strategic decisions.

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How I coach

  • In person: I’m based in beautiful Belfast, Northern Ireland. We’ll work together in a confidential, convenient space [Covid-restrictions permitting]

  • Online: Got a good broadband connection? I coach nationally and internationally over Zoom, or your preferred platform.

  • Outdoors: walking together in the outdoors can unlock some of our most creative thinking.

“Áine is penetrating, insightful, perceptive, professional, value led, fun to talk to and exceptionally good at making you a better, more effective, more actualized person.”