Call: +353 (1) 293 4741
Email: talktous@equita.ie
Call: +353 (1) 293 4741
Email: talktous@equita.ie
The EQuita Group is the Global business consultancy and corporate training company of choice for many companies nationally and internationally. Our services include leadership and executive development, skills-based training, commercial negotiations and workplace productivity solutions and as strategic advisors to client organisations.
Founded by CEO Margaret Considine in 2001, the EQuita Group continues to be one of Ireland’s leading consultancy practices in its fields of specialist expertise. Their in-house expertise and regional associates allow the company to provide solid advice and direction to indigenous Irish companies and institutions as well as enterprise clients working in the global market place. Margaret is a leading expert in Negotiation and Executive Education and an international keynote speaker.
Margaret has had many articles published in national and international journals, is the author of six books, and is regularly asked to contribute across all media platforms, including television, radio, and online.
Our consultants are all experts in business and organisation development; many of them are authors and keynote speakers; they are skillful at devising resonant customised solutions for each client, leading to excellent long term relationships and loyal customers.
Margaret Considine is a vastly experienced Management Consultant who works with some of the major companies in Ireland and Europe assisting them in management development, negotiations, coaching, mediations and HR / employment complaints. Margaret has extensive experience in both private and public sector clients. Margaret is the author of six books, four textbooks on psychology and work, communication, Management Theory & Practice and strategic HRM and one coffee table book on the history of Carrick mines Croquet & Lawn Tennis Club. Her latest book is on Bullying and Harassment and she is currently writing a book on Strategic Negotiations.
Fabio Grassi is the director of the IMI Diploma in Executive Coaching and delivers training in several customised programmes for organisations in a variety of industries: high tech, food & ingredients, retail, pharmaceutical and constructions. Fabio’s focus is to architect tailored organisational development interventions to transform talent into sustainable growth and return on investment. His passion is to help executives and managers to achieve specific business outcomes by developing their team’s performance, collaboration, leadership and motivation.
Ashley Hughes is a learning and development professional with over 25 years’ experience in executive education. She offers a proven track record of success in the design and delivery of engaging learning interventions for both the Public Sector in Ireland and private industry across EMEA. Her expertise is in building soft skill management and leadership capability to enable organisational effectiveness. All her work is underpinned by her enduring belief that effective interpersonal relations are game changers in the business world.
Ashley has worked with clients spanning a range of industry sectors including technology, cloud security, construction, transport, fintech, media and healthcare. A large part of her work is centered on personality profiling and she is a qualified practitioner in a range of development instruments. Since 2004 Ashley has been an active member of faculty at UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School where she is Assistant Professor of Management. She teaches leadership and organisational behaviour on the executive and full time MBA programmes and received the Dean’s award for Outstanding Teaching. She has been an active member of the EQuita team since its inception.
Qualifications – Academic / Practitioner
M.Sc. Management (OB), Trinity College,
BA Management (NCEA),
Behavioural Science of Management, Yale School of Management, Connecticut (2019)
Global Virtual Teams, YALE School of Management, Connecticut (2017)
Situational Leadership Qualified Practitioner, Blanchard Institute UK
Cultural Intelligence Qualified Practitioner, CQ Centre, Michigan, US.
Everything DISC certified practitioner.
Emotional Intelligence Qualified Practitioner, Thomas International UK
MBTI Step 1 & Step 2 Qualified Practitioner, OPP – The Myers Briggs Company, Oxford, UK
HETAC Master Trainer, Master Trainer Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.
Areas of expertise
Ability to work at all levels in an organisation to understand the issues that are negatively impacting on performance delivery and the achievement of Organisational Goals and Objectives, to design, explain and to either implement agreed changes or work with those who are responsible for the implementation of change within the organisation, to deliver cost effective solutions through the elimination of waste activities. Employs a structured methodology with a very clear focus on agreed goals / objectives / outcomes and to build momentum to implementing change, within current work agreements and arrangements.
Delivery of training inputs for Senior Executive and Managers in the following areas, Change Management, Strategy Development (action programme), implementing change with the use of Persuasion & Influencing competencies (in particular for those individuals with limited authority), Teamwork and is passionate about workforce development issues and helping organisations and workers invest in skill development and to prepare for the ‘future of work’ issues ahead.
Owen Fitzpatrick CSP is a world-renowned Social Psychologist, International Best-Selling Author, and sought-after Speaker and Trainer. Over the past 25 years, Owen has become one of the leading experts in the fields of leadership, influence, and storytelling. He has worked with billionaires, Olympic athletes, and some of the most prestigious organizations in the world, including Google, LinkedIn, Pfizer, Salesforce, Citibank, Morgan Stanley, Coca-Cola, and Barclays. His TEDx talk, Mind Control, has captivated more than 1.4 million viewers, and his nine books, translated into over 20 languages, have transformed the way people think about beliefs and behavior.
Owen’s global journey has taken him to over 107 countries, where he’s spoken to audiences in more than 32, sharing stages with visionaries like Sir Richard Branson and Seth Godin. But it’s not just boardrooms and conference halls where Owen has conducted his research. He’s traveled to some of the most politically and culturally extreme environments—North Korea, Rwanda, and Afghanistan—to study propaganda and its profound impact on belief systems.
Owen has studied Strategic Negotiation at Harvard Business School and Communication and Influence at MIT, and his expertise has been sought by leaders across industries, where he provides evidence-based, actionable strategies for driving change. In addition to his work in psychology, Owen is also an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor.
He is known to engage audiences in an unforgettable way, blending humor, powerful narratives, and cutting-edge research to leave them educated, inspired, and ready to take action.
Ciara Conlon is a Leadership expert with many years’ experience coaching and delivering executive training programmes to CEOs and teams of all sizes. She has written three books on personal productivity, was commissioned to create a course for Audible called Get Organised and is the creator of The Lifeflow Planner, a goal setting and habit planner. She regularly contributes to media on topics such as productivity, performance, goal setting and motivation.
Mike is an internationally experienced psychologist , learning & development
practitioner and qualified psychometrician.
He introduced and spearheaded the use of the Performing Arts, Storytelling, Positive
Psychology, Emotional Intelligence and Aesthetics in leader, team and personal
development in Ireland, the UK and New Zealand. His use of cross discipline development
methods has been described as “the missing link in leading.”
He has designed, developed and delivered two Masters programmes in Advanced Leader
Practice in Europe and Australasia that have transformed lives, coaching and mentoring
hundreds of individuals and their teams to develop presence and authenticity through
identity and purpose. His sharply focused purpose is that we can all have and create
“well-lived lives in well led organisations”.
Education: Conducting Doctoral research on the growth of reflexivity and emotional
maturity at the University of Warwick. . Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA
Warwick). BSc in Psychology, Edinburgh University. Post Graduate Certificate Education
(Edinburgh). FRSA Fellow Royal Society Arts and Manufactures.
Alyssa is the international business development and marketing executive for EQuita working closely with Margaret Considine to design programmes unique to client’s needs. After completing her master’s degree in 2019, Alyssa began working with EQuita and plays a large role in development and marketing tactics nationwide and internationally.
Education:
Master of Business from Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland) 2019
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Saint Peter’s University (USA) 2018
Megan is the business and training development executive for EQuita and works alongside CEO, Margaret Considine, on daily management and business organisation. Megan is responsible for EQuita’s training, where she oversees the day to day responsibilities for the booking and scheduling of trainings, resources, associates, managing registrations and the co ordinating of curriculum development.
Education:
Master of Business from IT Carlow (SETU) 2020
Bachelor of Business (Hons) Degree from Dublin Business School 2017
Julie is an accredited advanced mediator of the Mediators Institute of Ireland since 1999. She is the Director of Conflict Positive which offers Mediation, Conflict Coaching and Mediation Training. She mediates complex multi- party disputes, as well as interpersonal misunderstandings, bullying and harassment issues and family disputes. Areas of specialisation include employment disputes and family disputes. She trains management and employees in communication and conflict resolution and designs in-service courses to meet the needs of the organisation. Julie develops mediation training courses and has lectured on mediation at UCD (Masters in Environment), NUI Maynooth (Masters in Mediation), The Institute of Public Administration (Certificate in Mediation), the Law Society (Diploma in Mediation), and the IMI (Certificate in Mediation).
Education: Master's Degree in Mediation and Conflict Resolution in 2005 from UCD.
EQuita Group Ltd.
Suite 15, Tallaght Business Centre,
Whitestown Business Park,
Dublin 24
Call: +353 (1) 293 4741
Email: talktous@equita.ie
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