Meet the Team The Mindful Leader Academy Team

JJ O'Riordan

JJ O'Riordan

Leadership Coach & Facilitator

JJ O Riordan is an international Leadership Coach and Facilitator of Global Leadership Programs. Along with his colleague, Alasdar Browne, he is the founder and co-developer of The Mindful Leader Program. JJ has facilitated The Mindful Leader Program to site leadership teams in Singapore, India, as well as many locations in the US and in Europe. JJ has worked with global organizations such as Analog Devices, Abbott Nutrition, Nelipak Healthcare, Alkermes, Avolon, Novartis and GSK.
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Alasdar Browne

Leadership Coach

Alasdar is a highly skilled, experienced and intuitive Leadership Coach. He’s very comfortable operating at the highest levels within Organisations. His experience is derived from the Medical Device, Food, Pharma, Financial Services and Management Consulting industries. He gained his corporate experience as a Senior Leader in the Medical Device industry during a 12 year career. His background is diverse, with much of his working career being overseas. He’s very experienced in dealing with Teams & people from different cultures and backgrounds. 

Mary Rafferty

Leadership Coach & Facilitator

An experienced trainer, coach and mediator, Mary brings a warm, supportive, empathic yet very focused approach to her work with both individuals and groups. Mary specialises in coaching for leaders and managers around building positive and resilient working relationships. She is passionate about coaching and training leaders in the art and skills of having transparent and authentic dialogue and ‘learning’ conversations within their teams: Conversations are the lifeblood of relationships and relationships as the lifeblood of any kind of organisational success.

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Mary T Tierney

Leadership Coach

Mary T possesses a unique blend of expertise – her creative talent, experience and qualifications combined with an infectious, positive energy and enthusiasm ensures she brings success to everything she does.
Mary T’s passion for interpersonal communication is informed by her life-long learning in psychology, human behaviour and neuroscience. These form the foundations of her work with managers and leaders, to enhance their communication and relationship with themselves first and then others in a way that results in them being more effective in their role as leader.

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Brian O'Driscoll

Coach, Trainer & Facilitator

An experienced coach, trainer and facilitator, Brian combines a credible blend of business experience and a senior HR background to deliver high quality leadership development and coaching solutions.
Before specialising in the leadership development and coaching space, Brian worked in commercial sales management roles. Over the past 15 years, he has held a variety of senior HR positions including Learning & Development Manager, Head of Talent, Leadership & Organisation Development & Human Resources Director.

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Pat Kennedy

Leadership Coach

Pat Kennedy cares about and believes in people. He has experienced firsthand the roller-coaster that is called life. This means he can really empathise with his clients.
Pat’s coaching strengths include the facility to focus on what’s really important and the ability to build rapport and trust with his clients. His integrity and total client focus is the hallmark of his work. He enjoys seeing clients’ confidence and energy increase leading to significantly better results for them and their organisations. His style is to support positively and challenge appropriately in a friendly relaxed way. He believes the process, whilst it may or may not be challenging, can also be fun.

Clíodhna Folan

Clíodhna Folan

Mindful Leader Program Manager

With a background in Human Resources and as a native Irish speaker, Clíodhna completed a Bachelor’s Degree in International Commerce with Irish in 2021. Clíodhna has continued her academic career and is currently undergoing a Master’s degree in Post-Primary Education. Professionally, Clíodhna has been the Mindful Leader Program Manager since 2021 where her responsibilities include managing all aspects of the Mindful Leader Programs as well as supporting and challenging all clients of the Mindful Leader Academy to make the transition from knowing the Philosophy of Mindful Leadership to Living and Leading as Mindful Leaders.

Between her academic career in Education and her work with the Mindful Leader Academy, Clíodhna has a real interest, passion, and curiosity in supporting people to live and express their highest potential. Clíodhna’s other interests include swimming, water safety instruction and travel.