Cathy Kelly Sweeney Coaching

Cathy is a Marketing Consultant and Executive Coach who specializes in helping her clients to achieve clarity with their Business Strategies, Communication and Leadership Development, so that they can create the professional and personal success they are looking for.

With Marketing Consulting, Cathy’s unique skill is combining her marketing expertise with a coaching approach – she gives her clients the space to fully unpack their ideas and work through challenges and opportunities; identifies the most important points; works with clients to get laser clarity on their vision, purpose and unique offering; and supports them in developing the plan to make it happen.

With Executive Coaching and Communication Training, Cathy brings over 20 years’ experience in marketing, leadership and coaching working with organisations such as Danone, EY, Accenture, Primark, Abbey Capital and Skillnet. She holds a Bachelor of Business (Hons), an Advanced Diploma in Personal, Executive and Leadership Coaching and has qualifications in the areas of Leadership and Personal Development.

She is an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and an Accredited Coaching Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).

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A little bit more about me & my background

Opening myself up and having the desire to develop my self-awareness, coaching and leadership skills was a game changer in my career. Doing things the way I’d always done them – people pleasing to the point of exhaustion, unwilling to delegate fully, afraid to take risks for fear of failure, being overly self-critical and thinking I had to behave in a certain type of ‘corporate way’ was holding me back and resulted in burn-out and a lack of fulfillment with my work.

Through coaching I learned the skills to:

  • Effectively manage priorities so that I was spending more time on the most important and strategic areas. Resulting in less stress, improved performance and a greater sense of well-being 
  • Communicate well – getting my point across clearly, confidently and with impact. With the assertiveness to speak up about issues in a constructive way.
  • Lead better and empower my team. Adopting a coaching approach meant we were more goal oriented, focused and accountable with a greater sense of trust and support among team members  
 
  • Play to my strengths and manage my inner critic. With increased self-awareness I knew how to leverage my strong points whilst having the confidence to ask for support with my weaker areas. 
  • Be myself and enjoy what I was doing a lot more. I found it easier to trust myself, make decisions and leverage my natural intuitive abilities instead of dismissing them
  • Discover meaning and purpose in what I was doing which gave me more focus, energy and fulfillment 

A little bit more about me & my background

Opening myself up and having the desire to develop my self-awareness, coaching and leadership skills was a game changer in my career. Doing things the way I’d always done them – people pleasing to the point of exhaustion, unwilling to delegate fully, afraid to take risks for fear of failure, being overly self-critical and thinking I had to behave in a certain type of ‘corporate way’ was holding me back and resulted in burn-out and a lack of fulfillment with my work.

Through coaching I learned the skills to:

  • Effectively manage priorities so that I was spending more time on the most important and strategic areas. Resulting in less stress, improved performance and a greater sense of well-being 
  • Communicate well – getting my point across clearly, confidently and with impact. With the assertiveness to speak up about issues in a constructive way.
  • Lead better and empower my team. Adopting a coaching approach meant we were more goal oriented, focused and accountable with a greater sense of trust and support among team members 
  • Play to my strengths and manage my inner critic. With increased self-awareness I knew how to leverage my strong points whilst having the confidence to ask for support with my weaker areas. 
  • Be myself and enjoy what I was doing a lot more. I found it easier to trust myself, make decisions and leverage my natural intuitive abilities instead of dismissing them
  • Discover meaning and purpose in what I was doing which gave me more focus, energy and fulfillment 

My Approach

Is all about helping you to be more of YOURSELF in your leadership role and to develop into who you want to BECOME. I provide a safe learning environment where you feel both supported and challenged.

We work together to figure out what is holding you back and getting in the way, how to play to your strengths, to identify what you really want to achieve and how to make it happen – whether that be a promotion, a change of career, developing or marketing the business you’ve always wanted, having a stronger impact at work, being a great presenter, learning how to inspire and empower your team, resolving conflict and having better work relationships or improving your work-life balance.

What Our Clients Say

Nadine McCarthy Transformational Leadership and Personal Performance Coach

Cathy Kelly Sweeney was the absolute BEST thing that happened to my business in 2020. She created a tailor-made brand-marketing and strategy coaching programme for me to support me on the relaunch of my signature programme, The Celtic Leader. Cathy has a rare skill set that combines marketing strategy, brand messaging, copywriting, coaching and clarity. She facilitated a deep space of listening to really understand my business and then used her expertise to support me to find and step into laser clarity on my vision, purpose and future direction.
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Janet Jensen Chartered Management Accountant - CIMA

You meet many people in the business world but only some leave their mark and one of them is Cathy. As a numbers person being an accountant and only having recently set up my own Accounting Firm Ekstra Accounting Solutions, one of the things I was struggling with was articulating the businesses core purpose. After only two sessions, I had a one page document that sums up my overall business marketing strategy.
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James Bruce Country Manager Danone Ireland

Cathy brings a unique blend of commercial acumen and coaching skills that make her a huge asset to any business she partners with. Cathy has a proven track record of building outstanding team culture and developing leadership capabilities in those she works with. She has the ability to get to the roots of a business or people challenge and enable stakeholders to find breakthrough solutions.

Zoe Bernstein Brand Lead Bottleshot

Working with Cathy enabled me not only to understand myself better but has also allowed me to have open conversations about my career that I would not otherwise have been able to have. Cathy is empathetic but also practical – two invaluable skills in the coaching field. She continued to challenge my thinking in order to help me improve and become increasingly confident in my decision making and for this I am very thankful.

Tracy Folliard General Manager, National Cancer Control Programme

I worked with Cathy to develop my interview skills and particularly to help me present myself at senior management level. I found Cathy so easy to work with and she identified key areas for me to work on which I feel was pivotal during the interview process. I am pleased to say thanks to Cathy’s input, I was successful in attaining the post.

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