“Colm brings energy, motivation, and a deep understanding of team dynamics. He engages with every team member, ensuring that everyone feels valued and empowered.”
Pa (Patrick) Laide
CEO, Cara Credit Union
Here2There Coaching
Helping leadership teams perform better.
A team of high performers is not necessarily a high-performing team.
I help leadership teams clarify their collective purpose, have better conversations and turn individual capability into stronger collective performance.
Organisations I have worked with
Diagnose before prescribing
Before we talk about solutions, we get clear about the real challenge.
Leadership teams are often full of capable people. The challenge is helping those individuals combine their strengths, perspectives and decisions in service of a shared purpose.
My role is to listen before prescribing, ask the questions that reveal what is really happening, and help the team make practical choices it genuinely owns.
Why work with Colm →How I help
Support designed around your team and its challenge.
Every engagement begins with understanding your context, the outcome you need and what may be getting in the way. The work is then co-designed around your team—not taken from an off-the-shelf programme.
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Leadership Team Coaching
Build trust, strengthen accountability and develop better performance through practice, reflection and follow-through—not a single away day.
Explore this service → 02Executive Coaching
Create confidential thinking space for senior leaders facing complexity, change or transition.
Explore this service → 03Facilitation and Leadership Development
Turn important conversations into clear decisions, ownership and practical next steps.
Explore this service →How we work
From challenge to sustained change.
The work is bespoke. The way we create clarity, ownership and follow-through is deliberate.
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Understand
Listen carefully to the context, pressures and people involved.
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Identify
Define the real challenge—not merely its most visible symptom.
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Create Awareness
Take time to reflect honestly, gather feedback and consider how individual and collective behaviours are affecting the team.
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Choose
Make deliberate decisions about what needs to change.
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Take Responsibility
Turn insight into action, ownership and sustained follow-through.
A guiding philosophy
From awareness to better performance.
Awareness requires time to reflect honestly, gather feedback and consider how individual and collective behaviours are affecting the team.
That awareness creates choice. Choice brings responsibility for what the team does next. Better leadership is then built through practice, reflection and consistent follow-through.
“What you are not changing,
you are choosing.”
What clients say
“Colm creates a supportive learning environment, brings clarity to complex topics, and leaves people feeling confident to apply what they have learned.”
Karen Coventry
CEO, Special Olympics Ireland
“His style is encouraging and empathetic, while challenging people to create ideas and solutions.”
Liam Healy
Director of Operations, St John of God Community Services
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Experienced. Practical. Human.
A calm, challenging partner for leaders and teams.
Leadership can be lonely. Senior leaders may spend their days surrounded by people while having very few places where they can speak openly, test their thinking and receive impartial challenge.
Colm O’Shea provides that calm, confidential thinking space—combining commercial experience, professional coaching practice and an understanding of what it takes to lead people through uncertainty.
Meet ColmA useful first step
What would better performance look like for your leadership team?
Let’s have a straightforward, confidential conversation about where the team is now and where it needs to get to.
Start a conversation