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TOTAL HUMAN CAPITAL CONSULTANCY

The Career & Workplace Architects
Empowering Leaders |Engaging Workforces |Establishing Balance

Clarity, Confidence, Change

THC Consult: 2025 Year in Review

What does an organisational psychologist, with an analytical mindset, compassion and unrivalled tenacity actually do?

What does an organisational psychologist, with an analytical mindset, compassion and unrivalled tenacity actually do?

This year’s work was wide ranging and varied – At THC Consult we have coached seasoned senior executives through reinvention. Guided the hiring process to fill senior roles while navigating disappointed internal competition. Advised Boards ahead of contentious hearings. Prepared executives across many professional sectors, for career-defining interviews. Guided senior leaders through Protected Disclosure minefields. Delivered training nationwide on everything from ‘Dignity at Work’ to ‘Immunity to Change’ mapping. Stood before entire staffs asking what ‘professionalism’ really means, why ‘boundary-setting’ is integral to discipline, order and flow in the workplace and why upskilling across the lifespan and sharing of knowledge are so important. Lectured p-t on the Masters in Leadership & Management at MIC/UL. Mediated between organisations and union representatives. Prepared documentation for clients ahead of WRC hearings. Shadowed clients trapped in indefinite administrative leave. Analysed legal evidence that professionals had missed, prompting review of judgments handed down. Protected intellectual property from contractual overreach while highlighting flawed tri-partite agreements which gave rise to the problem. Presented research at University of Galway. And asked uncomfortable questions about Communication, Collaboration, retaining Human Connection as AI impacts developing minds on The Handshake podcast.

The thread? Getting to the nub of what obstructs progress

In reality, I am a Workplace & Career Architect — a Solution-Oriented Troubleshooter who combines an inquiring, legal mindset with organisational psychology, coaching, mediation and research expertise.

Individual Executive Coaching

The 5-Session Executive Coaching Programme — grounded in TriMetrix HD’s five sciences data — took clients from career crossroads to clarity:

1. Psychometric Debrief + Career Capital Audit
2. Values Clarification + Legacy Architecture
3. Options Architecture + Market Reality Testing
4. Strategic Positioning + Network Activation
5. 90-Day Implementation Roadmap

For Clients closing long-established businesses, relocating, contemplating career change and facing decades of working life ahead, with no direction. Through this programme: clarity, confidence, and a concrete plan are achieved.

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Senior Leadership Preparation

Coaching within and towards Senior Executive and Middle Management roles across Ireland’s public sector and semi-state bodies, from Justice to Health to Enterprise to Education, Appointments secured. Lives changed.

Senior Leaders: Executive Coaching, Training & Strategic Advisory

A significant strand of my practice sits on the other side of the table — advising and coaching senior leadership teams, Boards, and HR functions when organisations face their most challenging people problems.

My success rate in this area is phenomenal. A legal mind complements and anchors my organisational psychology, coaching, and mediation expertise — enabling me to see what others miss, anticipate what’s coming, and guide leaders through terrain that would otherwise overwhelm them.

Troubled Staff Relations

When trust has broken down, factions have formed, and grievances are circulating — organisations need diagnostic clarity:
What’s actually driving this? I cut through the noise, identify root causes, and design interventions that address the real problem.

Disengaged Employees

Disengagement presents as absenteeism, passive resistance, quiet quitting, or corrosive cynicism. My approach combines validated diagnostic tools with qualitative inquiry that surfaces what staff won’t say in formal channels.

The Misuse of Protected Disclosures

The Protected Disclosures Act exists for vital reasons. But in practice, the mechanism is sometimes weaponised: deployed tactically in interpersonal disputes, used to circumvent performance management, or wielded to create institutional paralysis. I advise senior leaders on distinguishing genuine disclosures from tactical deployments, navigating procedural obligations, and rebuilding functional relationships.

Preparing for Contentious Meetings

I coach senior leaders and Board members ahead of formal hearings, grievance meetings, and encounters with complainants accompanied by Union officials and legal advisors. My role: ensuring leaders enter these encounters prepared, composed, and strategically clear — not blindsided, defensive, or reactive.

Organisations that avoid these confrontations pay a higher price — in prolonged disruption, talent attrition, and cultural erosion. I ensure they don’t have to.

Family Business: Multi-Generational Handover

Again, this year brought engagements involving family business succession — where leadership transition and business expansion intersect with family dynamics, founder identity, and generational expectations.

The presenting problem is usually ‘succession planning.’ The actual problem is everything succession planning touches: founder readiness to let go, successor capability and motivation, team loyalty dynamics, knowledge transfer, and the unspoken question nobody wants to ask — what if the successor isn’t suited for this?

My Approach

• TriMetrix HD 5-Science Assessment for all key stakeholders
• Individual coaching for both generations
• Team Functioning analysis and group debrief
• Development pathways with measurable milestones
• CPD tailored to individual and team needs
• Guided, graduated step back and handover
• Contingency planning for outcomes nobody wants to discuss

The consistent finding: what presents as a business problem is fundamentally a psychological and relational transition.

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The Handshake Podcast

Sharp Questions, Uncomfortable Answers

https://thcconsult.ie/blog/

This year, The Handshake celebrated our human connection and took a definitive turn toward AI — our lack of readiness, its potential for misuse, and its impact on developing minds.

Overview of Guests:

• Professor Michael Fullan – Connected Autonomy Key to Success in ‘the Wonder Decade’
• Professor Joe Houghton – ‘Unlocking the AI
• Mr Padraig Berry – ‘When Connecting and Relationship Building’ Tump Strategy in the Workplace’
• Dr. Oleg Konovalov – Author of The Vision Code – ‘Vision – Elegant Thinking about Complicated Things’.
• Stephanie Barnes – ‘Realisation of Potential through Tapping into our own Agency’
• Chester Elton — “The Apostle of Appreciation” on Human Connection
• Hortense le Gentil — Unlocking Authentic Leadership
• Dr. Daithí Ó Murchú — AI & Human Future (multiple episodes)
• Charlie Boyle — Mastering Human-AI Synergy
• Tami Simon — Founder of ‘Sounds True’ on Leadership Reimagined
• Dr. Abraham Khoureis – LinkedIn Leadership Top Voice, Forbes Thought Leader – The Compassion Advantage – Redefining Leadership for Inclusive Success’
• Dr. Brian Higley & Sasha Monaco — STEAM Productivity
• Pilar Quezzaire – Education Futurist, Curriculum Designer, Tech Investigator — ‘Is AI Enhancing Children’s Minds – or Compromising them Before They’re Fully Developed?’

The Questions That Won’t Let Go

• Are we sleepwalking into an educational revolution that could reshape human consciousness?
• What happens when children outsource thinking before their brains have fully developed?
• Is AI in education amplifying potential — or creating cognitive dependency?

Explore all episodes:

thcconsult.ie/blog

Catch up with ‘The Handshake’

Academic & Publishing

• Lecturing — Masters in Management & Leadership, MIC/UL
• Conference — University of Galway, May 2025. Research on AI-powered education and organisational psychology
• Publishing — a work in progress — expected 2026

2025 Services at a Glance

What’s Ahead: 2026

The research is clear. The frameworks exist. The question is implementation — lean, affordable, ruthlessly specific.

Writing, Publishing & Interviewing — 2026 publication release — more to come soon.

Talks & Bespoke Training to meet your needs

Your Dilemma:
Whether you’re a senior leader facing a personnel crisis you can’t see a way through, an organisation seeking training that actually shifts behaviour, a Company founder/owner preparing to take a step back towards retirement and succession planning, a professional navigating a career inflection point, an educator preparing for a defining interview, or someone cast into limbo with nowhere to turn.

Your Solution:
THC Consult — let’s have the conversation that changes it.

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