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SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

Empower your sustainability leaders to bridge the gap between
aspiration and real-world outcomes.

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Lead With Purpose, Clarity and Intent BRIDGE THE GAP

The journey to a sustainable future depends on the capacity and commitment of leaders to address the risk, opportunities and challenges for their organisations. From scenario planning possible futures to developing your sustainability strategy, human capital development is key, ensuring you have the leadership capacity to execute. Embedding sustainability leadership takes the transition out of silos and into the DNA of the organisation, aligning your people with purpose, clarity and intent.

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Are Your Leaders Future-Fit? GET FUTURE READY

With increasing demands from governments and shareholders to shift away from conventional practices and tackle the climate crisis head-on, now is the time to strengthen your business resilience and secure its future. We are delighted to partner with Cranfield University to offer its ground-breaking Exploring Sustainable Futures workshops.

Backed by robust academic research, Exploring Sustainable Futures offers a unique and engaging learning experience that immerses you in the future of sustainability. This interactive journey is designed for organisations ready to elevate their sustainability efforts and bring their leaders and teams together. We invite you to explore how this innovative experience can be tailored to meet your business needs, adding real value to your sustainability and leadership goals.

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Integrate Sustainability, Change And Innovation To Map Your Journey STRATEGY

Developing a viable and feasible sustainability strategy, whether standalone or integrated into corporate strategy, is a multi-disciplinary endeavour. Our multi-disciplinary team bring wide-ranging experience and expertise in sustainability leadership areas including sustainability management, strategy development, innovation, leadership, L&D and advisory to design your roadmap to the future. We work to harness the energy, drive and commitment of your people to help you craft and implement a roadmap to sustainability.

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Harness The Power Of Sustainability-Oriented Innovation SOI

Sustainability-oriented Innovation (SOI) focuses on delivering innovation which directly or indirectly contributes to the organisation’s sustainability performance and goals. When partnering with our clients to deliver SOI in their organisations, we bring our deep expertise in innovation management, innovation capability assessment,  AI solutions, facilitation and L&D to design solutions to grow your human capital for a sustainable future.

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Build Leadership Capability At Scale, Fast! CAPABILITY ACADEMIES

The pace of change required can seem daunting. We understand that our clients face multiple challenges, not least of which is that they are time poor and resource constrained. At the same time, we believe a successful transition means building the foundations for sustainability leadership at scale and fast. That’s why we have partnered with CrossKnowledge to bring Capability Academies in key areas including leadership to help grow this foundational capability across your organisation in a way that is cost-effective and scalable.

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Our Team

Our team brings decades of experience in leadership development, L&D and innovation to bear in selecting the most appropriate solution for your needs. Leveraging our respective partners’ capabilities and expertise, we bring a global network of thought leaders and practitioners to bear on your most complex challenges.

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Enhance your sustainability strategies with change management, innovation management and AI capabilities. Harness data-driven insights that accelerate decision-making and optimise positive impact. From single events for executive leaders to large-scale organisational development initiatives, we are here to support your journey to sustainability, helping you navigate challenges and unlock new opportunities for sustainable growth at every level.

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Our unique solution set means we can help you adapt, scale and leverage globally recognised solutions holistically. Our local knowledge, flexibility and unique solution set means you have access to world-class solutions tailored to your needs.
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Our team bring decades of experience, multi-disciplinary expertise and the unique synergies of our partner organisations to bear on your most complex challenges.

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Meet our Team

Angelo McNeive
CEO, Head of Change & Sustainability Practice
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CEO, Head of Change & Sustainability Practice
Angelo McNeive
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Angelo is a business psychologist, advisor and facilitator with experience supporting clients across public sector to develop and execute strategy including the National Digital Strategy, Public Service Reform. With over 25 years global experience in L&D, his human capital development work focuses on building critical human and organisational capabilities in change, innovation and sustainability leadership.  He works with executive and senior leadership teams across a range of sectors. Angelo holds an Honours Degree in Psychology, a Masters Degree in Business Administration and an MSc in Occupational Psychology. He is a Chartered Psychologist in Ireland and a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK.

EXPERTISE

  • Change Management
  • Sustainability Management
  • Innovation
  • Learning and Development
  • Organisational Development
  • Facilitation

Phil Kildea
Head of Culture Practice
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Head of Culture Practice
Phil Kildea

Phil is a facilitator, executive coach and co-founder of STEPSTONE Consulting with over twenty-five years management, leadership and people development experience. with over twenty years experience in learning and development, Phil has delivered hundreds of programmes in Ireland and the UK for leading private and public sector organisations. Over the previous eleven years with the Bank of Ireland group he held various management roles in the retail business. His sectoral experience includes financial services, SMEs, professional services, government and retail. Phil has taught management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His focus areas include: culture, leadership and management development, facilitation and coaching.

Phil holds an Honours Degree in Business, a Masters Degree in Business Administration, a Graduateship in Marketing from the Marketing Institute of Ireland, a National Diploma in Personnel Management and a Graduate Diploma in Executive Coaching. He is a member of the Irish Institute of Training and Development (IITD) and the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MII).

Phil is a certified NLP Master Practitioner (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and is certified to administer EQi Bar on Emotional Intelligence.

EXPERTISE

  • Learning and development
  • Management and leadership development
  • Personal effectiveness
  • Executive coaching
  • Facilitation

Eoin Flavin
Head of Innovation Practice
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Head of Innovation Practice
Eoin Flavin
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Eoin is a successful Innovation Management advisor, a world-leading expert in and contributor to the ISO 56000 family of global Innovation Management standards and a 2nd Dan Innovation Management Black Belt with Innovation360. He is also vice-chair of Ireland’s advisory committee on innovation standards and co-founder of Innovate Island, the community for innovation practitioners, advocates and explorers throughout Ireland.

As a serial builder of successful new businesses, teams and systems, Eoin delivers sustained growth and other impacts with leaders at multi-nationals and startups alike.  Eoin always focuses on people and their real needs; synthesising the right capabilities, strategies, cultures and systems for each team and context.

Eoin’s 30-year career has encompassed senior technical, operations and commercial roles for multi-nationals. He currently advises service sectors, businesses and public agencies across Europe. Key achievements include building new medical device and cleanroom business units, crafting new International Risk Management Standards and tripling the revenue for a European division of an American chemicals business. Eoin holds a BA (Hons) Psychology from University College Dublin.

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  • Innovation Management Systems
  • International standards author and developer (ISO and CEN)
  • Technical advisor on systems and standards
  • Specialist in developing new business unit startups
  • Facilitation and Training
  • Management systems (Quality, Environment, Risk, Safety)
  • Business to Business Services
  • Procurement & supply chain development

Jackie Burke
Client Services Manager
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Client Services Manager
Jackie Burke
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Jackie has almost thirty years experience in Financial Services having held senior client-facing roles in Treasury at leading financial institutions including Bank of Ireland, BNP Paribas, and The National Treasury Management Agency. Jackie brings a highly disciplined and dedicated ethos to supporting our client engagements. Jackie is a successful author, having written eight novels, and speaker. Jackie holds a BA in Personnel Management from the National College of Ireland.

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  • Client Services
  • Learning & Development
  • Financial Services
  • HR

Linus Murphy
Senior Leadership Development Associate
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Senior Leadership Development Associate
Linus Murphy

Linus Murphy is a highly experienced Executive Leadership Coach and CEO with over 30 years leadership experience. He coaches executive leaders in over twenty countries to achieve their goals, overcome challenges, and enhance impact. His clients include senior leaders of large, complex and culturally diverse organisations in a range of sectors, including government. Linus draws on his expertise in leadership, high performance and communication to help clients identify and address common leadership blind spots that limit their potential.

As a former CEO of large multinational organisations, Linus understands the complex and dynamic environment that public sector leaders operate in, and the skills and mindsets they need to succeed. He helps his clients to develop and strengthen the core competencies that are essential for effective leadership such as strategic thinking, decision making, influence, stakeholder management, collaboration, team building, innovation, creativity, resilience, and adaptability.

Linus’ Transformational Leadership Coaching Model offers an holistic approach to fostering lasting change in executive’s leadership practice and their careers by addressing multiple effectiveness dimensions. He has lectured at IMD, University of Zurich, BI Norwegian Business School, and EFMD.

A former competitive cyclist, Linus was the Irish National Cycling Champion, representing Ireland at national and international events.

Eric Paquin
Senior Innovation Management Associate
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Senior Innovation Management Associate
Eric Paquin
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Eric Paquin is an innovation and product management professional with over two decades of extensive experience in the technology sector. His expertise lies in blending technology with human-centred design to create meaningful, user-centric solutions. He has a proven track record as a Chief Technology Officer and Innovation Manager, where he has been pivotal in leading digital transformations and implementing innovation strategies particularly around language models products at CLEAR Global. Throughout his career, Eric has led strategic product initiatives, championed digital transformations, and built strong, cross-functional teams. Eric thrives in dynamic environments, guiding organisations through the entire innovation journey, from ideation to prototyping and market launch. Whether it’s delivering impactful product strategies or empowering others to innovate, he is committed to driving growth and fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration. Eric holds an MSc in Product Management and a Certificate in Innovation and Technology Management, with a specialisation in Design Thinking for Strategy.

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  • Innovation
  • Design Thinking
  • Product Development
  • Digital Transformation
  • AI
  • Facilitation and Training

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