HOW I MADE IT – With our back to the wall, there was only one direction to go!
IIBN Dublin Member, Eilis Quinlan, owner of multi award-winning accountancy practice Quinlan & Co Eilis Quinlan set up her practice in Naas, Co Kildare as soon as possible after qualifying. “As a very young mother with three small kids, a fulltime job in accountancy was not an option” she remembers. “The world was not a […]
Recessions follow me around, they no longer scare me…
I first wrote the article below in February ’20, just as the dirty virus was about to take a grasp on us all. Typical of Liz O’Kane, reignite a business when the world is shutting down! Recessions follow me around, they no longer scare me, they are what they are, cyclical. And we’ll survive to […]
Hybrid Working 2.0 – What is going to change in 2022
We are probably all sick of hearing about hybrid working and adapting your work model to correspond with current health regulations and demands from the modern workforce. Over the last 18 months, most businesses have had to quickly adopt new initiatives and technologies to ensure employee safety whilst maintaining productivity. For many of us, working […]
Richard Branson’s Tennis Coach – Building a community of people passionate about high performance
James Cluskey is the founder of Give Learn – a high performance e-learning platform with live and on demand classes and courses with global experts around the areas of soft skills and developing EQ. The platform increases employee engagement, motivation and profitability. James and spent his life as a high performer and is a former […]
IIBN is supporting “Climb with Charlie” – Climb Cuilcagh Legnabrocky with us on Saturday, 2nd April
IIBN is supporting this “Climb with Charlie” initiative, but instead of climbing Croagh Patrick on Saturday, 2nd April, we are going to climb the magnificient Cuilcagh Legnabrocky Trail, in Co. Fermanagh on the same day- see image below. (It’s not as difficult as a climb as Croagh Patrick and typically takes a total of 3 hours […]
An undisputed leader and ‘disruptor’ in a male-dominated industry – Jacqueline O’Donovan
Jacqueline O’Donovan has achieved huge recognition as a business leader in a male-dominated industry — construction. At 19 she became managing director of O’Donovan Waste Disposal, HQ based in Tottenham, North London, after restructuring the business to continue the legacy of her late father Joe, who founded the business in its earliest form in 1959. […]
Need a University Intern? High Calibre Low Cost Interns at Covid Interns
Could your Business need a high-caliber, low-cost University Intern? Recent Trinity graduates, Rob Muldowney and Paddy Ryder, have a vast database on offer at Covid Interns. Covid Interns is a social enterprise recruitment platform for SMEs, charities, and startups looking to attract great student and graduate talent on attractive terms. Covid Interns recruits skilled candidates […]
Interview with Shane O’Neill – President at Audeohost Inc.
In 2011, Audeohost went from an idea in my head to a firm way forward. I had recently finished running IT for a Hitachi company in Canada and full-time corporate IT and I went on a path of divergence. My background is in tech and spent years in media in the UK with organisations including […]
Creating a Psychologically Safe Workplace – Elysia Hegarty of CPL
If you know anything about houseplants, then you know that the Fiddleleaf Fig is tough to maintain. In the wild it absolutely thrives, indigenous to West Africa it is used to dense rainforests. However once domesticated it can be super finicky. Too much sun, not enough sun, too wet, too dry, avoid cold drafts, rotate […]
Sharon Daly, Co-Founder Venture Life Group Plc “It all began in Costa Coffee”
For Sharon Daly, it began in 2010 in Costa Coffee with a blank sheet of paper and two former colleagues. With a flat white in one hand and a pen in the other, discussions were centred around creating an international consumer healthcare company aimed at improving a person’s quality of life. ‘We talked vision, strategy, […]
