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Colette Cahalane

Colette Cahalane

Executive Coach

Colette is an experienced executive coach and facilitator with a background in FMCG, technology, and global development sectors. She helps leaders and teams create sustainable, purpose-driven change—blending commercial insight with psychological and somatic approaches to build authentic, resilient, and impactful leadership.

Country: United Kingdom

Sector experience: FMCG and technology.

Background

Colette is an experienced Coach and Facilitator with a background in leadership and personal development. She is known for designing and delivering programmes that focus on leadership and management development, team development and personal development. She is passionate about working with individuals and teams to support sustainable and positive change.

Prior to her current work, Colette spent ten years in the FMCG and technology industry, where she held a variety of HR and Talent Development roles across a number of businesses. She has spent time India, Africa and Central America working in NGOs and has lived and worked in Australia and Canada.

 

Coaching Style

Colette is known for developing deep partnerships with clients and works collaboratively to design, develop and facilitate change that focus on clients short and long-term needs.

Colette’s coaching experience is built on strong commercial experience coupled with a psychological approach to development. She helps others uncover what is important and enables them to shape and create their futures.

 

Special Interests
  • Diversity & Inclusion

  • Leadership Assessment & Talent Development

  • Individual & Team Coaching

  • Organisational Development & Positive Change

  • Leadership with purpose

  • Energy management

  • Transforming stress

  • The power of mindset

  • Somatic coaching

 

Training & Qualifications
  • Accredited Senior Practitioner Executive Coach with the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC)

  • Qualified Somatic Coach from the Strozzi Institute.

  • Degree in Psychology and a Bachelor’s Degree with honors in Philosophy, Classical Studies from UCD.

  • Coach tutor on the Diploma for Business and Executive coaching in the Smurfit School of Business

  • On the coaching panel for Leadership Programmes run via both University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin

  • Receives regular coaching supervision

  • Qualified Integral Facilitator with Ten Directions. This work combines masterful facilitation with leading insights from the fields of developmental psychology and Zen awareness together in an Integral approach.

 

Current Clients

Colette has over 13 years’ experience enabling highly effective change in multinational, FMCG, public sector and non-profit sectors.

I found my ECC coaching sessions incredibly valuable – for the unique and necessary space I was seeking as a sole proprietor to feel heard, understood and connected to a peer in business. My coaching experience provided a safe space where I could be the real me, and provided a relationship I could truly trust. Thank you ECC.
Manager
Creative Retail Agency
Incredibly valuable and insightful - really helped me better understand what I can do to drive value and be successful within my organisation and helped me identify where my challenges may be along with a plan on how to address them. Excellent coaching!
Managing Director
Financial Services
The six sessions I had with my ECC Coach changed my perspective of coaching. I was initially uncertain (and possibly sceptical) about the benefits of coaching but my coach read me very well and knew when to coax a response out from me by being encouraging and when to firmly push me to see the benefits of reframing some of my previously held positions.
Head of Legal
International Property Group
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