Coaching Services2025-02-19T16:50:30+00:00

Coaching

Coaching

Empowering Leaders to Thrive

Aoife’s coaching services are designed to empower leaders and teams to navigate complex transitions and drive meaningful growth. Aoife focuses on your unique goals, providing support and tools to overcome challenges and unlock potential. By combining deep expertise with a practical, results-driven approach, she helps clients cultivate authentic leadership, build cohesive teams, and foster environments where leaders thrive. Whether developing leadership programs, crafting tailored coaching solutions, achieving communication mastery or navigating conflict Aoife partners with clients to create sustainable, positive change.

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Empowering Leaders to Thrive

Aoife’s coaching services are designed to empower leaders and teams to navigate complex transitions and drive meaningful growth. Aoife focuses on your unique goals, providing support and tools to overcome challenges and unlock potential. By combining deep expertise with a practical, results-driven approach, she helps clients cultivate authentic leadership, build cohesive teams, and foster environments where leaders thrive. Whether developing leadership programs, crafting tailored coaching solutions, achieving communication mastery or navigating conflict Aoife partners with clients to create sustainable, positive change.

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Core Challenges Our Clients Overcome

  • Struggling with Feelings of “Never Being Enough”: Overcome a persistent inner critic and self-limiting beliefs that hold back personal and professional growth.

  • Difficulty Communicating Needs and Setting Boundaries: Develop the ability to articulate desires, advocate for oneself, and establish healthy boundaries effectively.

  • Navigating Complex Corporate Dynamics: Build confidence to handle challenging conversations, manage emotions, and lead with clarity.

  • Overwhelm and Time Management Struggles: Learn to delegate, manage time effectively, and tackle feelings of overwhelm with a structured, balanced approach.

  • Experiencing Career Stagnation: Address feelings of imbalance and uncertainty while reigniting a sense of purpose and energy for work.

  • Seeking Career Growth or Reinvention: Navigate career transitions, advance professionally, and align strengths with opportunities for meaningful impact.

How We Solve These Challenges

  • Build Confidence and Communication Skills: Empower clients to advocate for themselves, communicate with authenticity, and harness their strengths.

  • Tailored Strategies for Career Growth: Provide personalized career coaching to navigate transitions, advance professionally, and achieve balance in work and life.

  • Tools to Manage Emotions and Burnout: Equip clients with techniques to address burnout, prioritize effectively, and regain stability and control.

  • Supportive, Transformative Coaching: Create a safe, judgment-free environment for self-reflection and growth, helping clients address barriers and unlock their full potential.

  • Focus on Leadership and Delegation: Guide clients to refine leadership skills, master delegation, and manage their teams with confidence and poise.

  • Clarity and Balance in Life and Work: Assist clients in redefining their paths, finding renewed energy for their careers, and achieving sustainable stability and balance.

Aoife’s coaching approach integrates proven strategies with compassionate guidance, enabling clients to overcome challenges, thrive in their roles, and build fulfilling, impactful lives.

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FAQs

What is the difference between coaching, consulting, mentoring and therapy?2025-01-08T22:09:21+00:00
  • Coaching empowers individuals to find their own solutions through guided questioning and reflection. It is future oriented with a focus on achieving the client’s stated goals for personal and professional development.
  • Consulting provides expert advice and solutions to specific problems.
  • Mentoring offers guidance and support based on personal experience and expertise.
  • Counseling helps individuals explore past experiences, understand their present impact, and change negative patterns through feedback and advice.
What is the coaching process?2025-01-08T22:09:58+00:00

Coaching is a collaborative partnership, highly personalized and results-oriented. It is . It begins with an in-depth assessment where we work together to define your goals and develop a personalized plan to understand your unique challenges and goals. We then create a tailored plan that leverages decades of experience helping leaders to excel and achieve greater impact. The process may include interviews with trusted colleagues (whom you select) to better understand how you’re currently showing up as a leader.

What results can I expect?2025-01-08T22:10:47+00:00

The results lead to higher executive impact, improved decision-making, and greater effectiveness in leading organizational change. Most clients report increased confidence and ability to influence and navigate complex situations. Leaders also experience better team dynamics, and ability to guide teams through transitions, foster a culture of adaptability, and enhance communication and collaboration within their organizations.

Beyond these key results, many clients develop greater self-awareness, build on their strengths, and overcome limiting beliefs and make significant progress in their personal and professional goals.

What is the length of engagement?2025-01-08T22:11:21+00:00

We offer flexible scheduling options and a variety of session formats to best suit your needs. Engagement lengths can range from a few months to ongoing support, depending on your individual goals and desired outcomes.

Coaching adheres to the ethical standards of the International Coaching Federation which stresses confidentiality as a necessary environment for effective coaching sessions.

What kinds of challenges do you address?2025-01-08T22:12:26+00:00
  • Struggling with Feelings of “Never Being Enough”: Overcome a persistent inner critic and self-limiting beliefs that hold back personal and professional growth.
  • Difficulty Communicating Needs and Setting Boundaries: Develop the ability to articulate desires, advocate for oneself, and establish healthy boundaries effectively.
  • Navigating Complex Corporate Dynamics: Build confidence to handle challenging conversations, manage emotions, and lead with clarity.
  • Overwhelm and Time Management Struggles: Learn to delegate, manage time effectively, and tackle feelings of overwhelm with a structured, balanced approach.
  • Experiencing Career Stagnation: Address feelings of imbalance and uncertainty while reigniting a sense of purpose and energy for work.
    Seeking Career Growth or Reinvention: Navigate career transitions, advance professionally, and align strengths with opportunities for meaningful impact.
How does coaching address these challenges?2025-02-07T20:31:58+00:00

We partner with and coach our clients to address a wide range of leadership challenges, including:

  • Build Confidence and Communication Skills: Empower clients to advocate for themselves, communicate with authenticity, and harness their strengths.
  • Tailored Strategies for Career Growth: Provide personalized career coaching to navigate transitions, advance professionally, and achieve balance in work and life.
  • Tools to Manage Emotions and Burnout: Equip clients with techniques to address burnout, prioritize effectively, and regain stability and control.
  • Supportive, Transformative Coaching: Create a safe, judgment-free environment for self-reflection and growth, helping clients address barriers and unlock their full potential.
  • Focus on Leadership and Delegation: Guide clients to refine leadership skills, master delegation, and manage their teams with confidence and poise.
  • Clarity and Balance in Life and Work: Assist clients in redefining their paths, finding renewed energy for their careers, and achieving sustainable stability and balance.
How do I get started?2025-01-08T22:14:46+00:00

Please reach out and connect with me. We’ll schedule a free initial consultation to discuss your needs and determine the best coaching track for you. Once we align on goals and expectations, we’ll begin the coaching and develop a plan.

Collaborators

I love to collaborate with accomplished, experienced, and overall good human beings and coaches. Our collective efforts enable us to provide outstanding and enriching experiences for our clients.

Hilary Goodkind - Collaborator - Saoirse Consulting & Coaching

Hilary Goodkind
Ph.D.

Hilary helps senior leaders and high-potential individuals make sustainable change by increasing self-awareness and expanding leadership capacity.

Her career spans over two decades as an executive leader and consultant. Her unique and comprehensive perspective is informed by her work across a range of industries including corporations, non-profits, healthcare and education. She has shaped organizations internally, as an executive leader, as well as externally, as a consultant and leadership coach.

She is focused on driving positive impact in organizations with offerings that include individual leadership coaching, group coaching, strategy, and organizational development. Hilary believes that coaching is critical to systemic change. Organizations do not develop without the growth of its individuals and leaders, or without thoughtful planning. Her purpose is to help individuals and organizations reach their desired potential.

Hilary holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Management and an M.A. in Educational Leadership and Administration from the University of Oregon. She is a credentialed coach through Hudson Institute of Coaching and a member of the International Coaching Federation.

Jennifer Evans, MD, MPH - Collaborator - Saoirse Consulting & Coaching

Jennifer Evans
MD, MPH

Jennifer helps create better leaders within the healthcare sector and other industries.

She optimizes her clients’ decision-making processes, enables them to address complex challenges and defines plans for personal and professional growth and excellence. She combines her experience as a physician with her strategic acumen and leverages her knowledge of human and organizational behaviors. She positions her clients to serve as insightful leaders and efficient agents of change.

Jennifer spent over 20 years at Norton Healthcare, where she served in clinical and executive roles, including System Vice President, Norton Medical Group (NMG), where she oversaw strategy, operations, practice management, system growth, and quality. Earlier in her career she was a practicing physician with Norton Associates in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Jennifer holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Tulane School of Medicine and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She received a Master of Public Health in Health Systems Management  from the Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and previously served as Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She is a credentialed coach through the Hudson Institute of Coaching and is certified through the International Coaching Federation.

Elisabeth Wilson MD, MPH, MS-HPEd - Collaborator - Saoirse Consulting & Coaching

Elisabeth Wilson
MD, MPH, MS-HPEd

As a family physician and department chair, I have experienced the joys and challenges of being a health care executive and academic leader.

Every step of the way, I have discovered that change brings growth, but only if I am willing to look, listen and learn.  I am excited to work with clients seeking to thrive in their current role or transition to something new.  Coaching is a unique opportunity to explore who we are, what we are looking for, and how we will achieve our full potential.  I am honored to partner with people on their journey.

I received my medical and public health degrees from Tufts University, and completed my Family Medicine residency and health services research fellowship at the San Francisco General Hospital and University of California San Francisco (UCSF).  I also received a Master of Education at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions.  After 20 years at UCSF, I transitioned to the East Coast in 2017 to serve as a Department Chair, first at Maine Medical Center and now at Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine. I am also a credentialed coach through the Hudson Institute of Coaching.

See What Clients Are Saying

I had low expectations about someone else being able to help me through my crisis/difficulties – but over time I knew that Aoife was doing just that! Aoife’s coaching helped me heal me from traumatic professional experience and achieve a sense of stability. Her coaching set me on a path to define my goals, review how I spent time in pursuit (or not) of those goals e.g. desire to commit time with friends/family and recognize that I do not construct my work life to support that goal. Her coaching allows people to enjoy what they do for a living or set them in the right direction to find what they enjoy doing.The lessons have stayed with me and given me comfort, knowing I had a long term plan.

Lisa MD, MPH, Director, Physician Leader | San Francisco Dept of Public Health

I was close to burn out. I lived life to work and struggled with living intentionally. I struggled with delegation and setting boundaries and limited myself with believing I had to do it all. I now am more intentional and lead and communicate better with my staff. Aoife is an amazing coach. She was able to challenge me and provide me with insight to reach my goals.

Veronica, Entrepreneur & Therapist

I was preparing to take on the next phase in my career, despite development conversations with senior leaders securing the right opportunity was proving difficult. I turned to coaching without fully knowing how it would be different. After 6 months of weekly coaching sessions to say I am grateful to have taken this step would be an understatement.

Working with Aoife has been a transformative experience for me. She guided me to uncover things I never knew about myself. The largest change for me has been realizing the self limiting stories I tell myself. With Aoife’s coaching I have clarity in my purpose and confidence in the value I bring. I’ve built skills I was missing to focus my energy and better guide my decision making. I have learned to question my inner voice to ensure it serves the path I am on. I’m thankful to have met Aoife and would recommend her coaching style to anyone who is seeking support with unlocking their full potential.

Julie Spina, Head of Google Canada Ad Manager Partnerships

I sought coaching because I wanted to improve my communication with my colleagues. I often felt misunderstood, and it impacted my work relationships. As a result of coaching, I gained valuable insights into effective communication strategies and learned how to handle challenging situations with confidence and clarity. I am now a better leader, working more collaboratively with my colleagues without feeling inadequate or taking things personally. Aoife’s coaching brought me clarity and to focus on things I can control and not be bugged down by what I can’t.

Czarina Boyce, Development Director | The Shadow Project

Before coaching. I was not aware of how I can communicate better, advocate for myself, how I can better leverage my strengths in my career and what it takes to be a good leader (courage, vulnerability, etc). After coaching I feel more confident about my communication style, advocating for myself and how my strengths can help me to become the leader that I aspire to be.

Aoife’s firsthand experience with the challenges I’m facing creates a deep connection between us. Her thoughtful questions guide me toward the answers I seek, and her openness and comfort make sharing my thoughts and experiences easy. The materials she shares after our sessions and her commitment to continuous learning and growth in her coaching practice are truly commendable. I appreciate the challenges she presents to me and the insightful discussions that follow.

Claudia Navarro Fragoso, Google Customer Engineer
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