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What we know for sure:-
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An individual’s level of High-Performance Career Fitness critically impacts their ability to engage and succeed in the ever changing world of work.
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Career Fit individuals think and feel positive about their capability to effectively cope with, adapt to and succeed in a particular role and deal effectively with career transition/change.
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Organisations are having to find new and better ways of engaging and equipping employees to do their best work!
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Career Management Competencies are the other side of the coin to technical and functional competencies, are the difference that makes the difference in career success, include personal attributes and abilities and are a central part within all our programs.
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Today, job security has been replaced by career security.
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Employer brand has never been more important and to compete in the race for key talent, employers are seeking new ways to attract, engage and retain the people needed for business success.
Jackie Howell is Career Gym founder and Principal Coach.
She is a leading Career Strategist, Executive Career Coach and Leadership Coach. Her wealth of expertise has impacted the careers of Executives and Leaders at all stages of their career journey.
Jackie has an impressive track record across private and public sectors both locally and internationally, working with ambitious and dynamic individuals and organisations in their pursuit of outstanding results. She hold clients in a secure and dynamic space, encourages open, honest self-assessment and a curious and focused approach to unfolding insights and opportunities to reveal true talent and capability for success.
It is her work directly with individuals and in organisations across all things career related and her depth of knowledge and expertise from both sides, which others report as invaluable. Her expertise is enriched through a credible blend of business acumen, international experience and senior HR background.
Jackie knows what is takes to be both successful and happy in your career. She a deep understanding of human nature, organisation dynamics and high-performance self-management strategies. Before specialising in coaching and consulting, she held various senior HR roles, within Financial Services, Fund Accounting, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Consulting including, UK Head of Recruitment for KPMG Consulting. For the past 14 years, she has played a leading role in the training and development of Career Coaches across Ireland & Internationally.
Jackie is graduate in Human Resource Management from the National College of Ireland, a Qualified Coach – Irish Lifecoach Institute, Training and Continuing Education Graduate – National University of Ireland, Master NLP coach practitioner – PPD Learning UK. BPS Certified Ability and Occupational Psychometric Assessments and ICF Consciousness Coach, Cape Town.
Fiona Dowling is a lead Partner with Career Gym. She is an accredited executive coach, career strategist, leadership facilitator, and corporate trainer. She is an accomplished financial services professional with 25+ years in a business and finance environment and the winner of a leadership award. She is an experienced relationship manager, and business writer with a strong track record in managing customer relationships both nationally and internationally.
Her corporate career spans people leadership, HR representative and trainer. She shares her specialist skills through a blended learning approach by integrating coaching, mentoring and training. Fiona has designed and delivered a variety of specialist training programmes to 150+ finance professionals throughout her career a skill that she now uses to train coaches and emerging leaders.
Fiona is passionate about helping clients navigate the world of work by optimising their strengths, developing career strategies and embodying empowering beliefs. Fiona helps clients both nationally and internationally to become more confident professionals, to challenge for promotion and to become authentic leaders with an ability to create a shared vision, be strategic and achieve business goals. She provides a personalised service that is empathetic, stakeholder centred, and outcome focused to support the creation of a workplace culture that promotes collaboration, trust and empowerment.
As a performing artist for over 30 years, Fiona also uses her stage experience, voice and dance training to help her clients to maximise their executive presence and become more confident speakers so that they can read the audience, communicate with charisma and conviction and most importantly enjoy the moment.
Fiona is an EMCC accredited Senior Coaching and Mentoring Practitioner, a graduate of IMI in Executive Coaching, a certified Coach Master Toolkit Practitioner with the World Business Executive Coach Summit, NLP Coaching Practitioner, an ILI Certified Career Coach and a qualified Corporate Trainer with a QQI Special Purpose Award. Fiona is a Roche Martin Accredited Practitioner of Emotional Capital, BPS Certified in Ability and Occupational Psychometric Assessments and an Inner Hero Facilitator with certifications in Personality Assessment, Career and Life Coaching and is also a Qualified Financial Advisor.
Our panel of Associates and Partners are talented coaches, trainers and consultants who have gone through a thorough selection process and are an integral part of our expert team.
Testimonials
Jackie, your level of expertise is incredible. Your ability to tease out from me my key achievements and expertise was so impressive, and a real confidence booster for me professionally. Your skill in helping me effectively articulate my offering and branding myself at the right professional level on my LinkedIn really got me noticed and ultimately as you know, my recent appointment! I look forward to our continued coaching relationship, with hopefully many more successes along the way!!
James, Finance Director
Jackie is an excellent Career Coach. She held a mirror up to me and helped me recognise what I wanted and how I was going to get there. I recently got a job I had been seeking and there is no doubt that my coaching sessions with Jackie gave me the confidence and inspiration I needed to succeed. A BIG Thank you Jackie
T.K, HR
Thank you for everything! The mentoring, coaching, guidance etc. It is not often that I meet people in the coaching and personal development field that I admire and feel inspired by. May you continue to touch the lives of many others and inspire their growth with your wisdom and grace.
Life Coach
I found my coaching sessions with Andrew enormously helpful in identifying the performance areas I was having difficulty with. He helped me to clarify some interesting dynamics going on for me and the team – my improved approach has changed the whole work dynamic for me and those I work alongside!
Operations Manager – FMCG
I had an important interview coming up for promotion to a role I had been seeking for some time. After a couple of intensive coaching sessions with Jackie, I became much more aware of my strengths and what I could offer for this particular role. Jackie gave me some great interview techniques so I also felt much more ready and able to really present myself at the level the role required. My interview process was successful and now I am even able to help others in this area!
Patrick, Marketing Director
In my practice as an executive coach, I was noticing that aspects of career management were coming up much more often in my coaching sessions. I wanted to be able to deal with these in a professional way so I attended the ILI career coach training programme.
I was most impressed by Jackie’s width and depth of knowledge, insight and experience and professionalism throughout. The investment has been really worthwhile and I am glad that I joined the programme.
Peter, Executive Coach
Jackie your expertise and knowledge made the program an exceptional experience!
Allison – Psychologist | Coach
The interview process within the medical profession can be quiet challenging and frustrating. Your interview coaching helped me step up above that and really capture and sell my fit for the role, which made all the difference. Your systematic step by step evaluation of my approach and fine tuning my achievement examples, along with my vision for the dept., really resonated with the panel and resulted in me being offered the role. I am delighted, thank you.
Anne, Medical Consultant
I was most impressed by your width and depth of knowledge, insight and experience and your professionalism throughout. The investment has been really worthwhile and I am glad that I engaged in the sessions. I felt very safe and trusted you easily, as a person and as a professional.
John B, Executive Coach Cape Town
Jackie provided a valuable sounding board for me as I was planning my next career move. I found her very knowledgeable in the areas of interview techniques and developing a stand out LinkedIn profile. She also gave me some additional areas to work on as I transitioned into my more senior position. I would have no hesitation recommending Jackie as someone to engage with if you are determined to get that next role but struggling to how you can make the best impact at application and interview stages.
Morgan, Risk Manager
The coaching very effective for me in terms of developing my self-awareness. I became much more in tune with my strengths and what I could offer. In the past 6 months, I have made a change a big career change and I am now much happier and more effective in my new role.
Customer Relations Manager
Having completed the advanced Career Coaching course with Jackie, I found the course was invaluable, with great content and structure and professionally presented. Jackie’s attitude was conscientious, ensuring that everyone on the course was happy and satisfied with the outcome. I would highly recommend the course for anyone interested in Career Coaching / Career Management for either personal or professional use.
Claire, Life & Career Coach
Jackie’s course on Career Coach Training was inspiring. As a Personal and Business Coach, this comprehensive program with its practical approach, has given me the tools and knowledge to provide a rich career management service to clients, with confidence. The format, structure and content were well thought through, covering topics such as identifying strengths, CV preparation, competency interview preparation and job search. I would highly recommend this course which was professional in all aspects. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Philomena – Business and Career Coach
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