Caitlin O'Connor

Caitlin is founder and director of Accelerating Performance, with extensive experience in the area of organisational development at strategic, operational and tactical levels.

After training with Centre for Professional and Personal Development as a life and business coach Caitlin founded Accelerating performance and has married her coaching expertise with her corporate exposure to bring a fresh approach across such areas as workplace innovation, thought leadership, positive thinking together with stimulating work-life balance. She brings a breadth of expertise having experience of both managing start-up environments as well as established businesses

Caitlin has held senior executive positions in private and public sector. Her career started with Aer Lingus where Caitlin worked across a number of divisions from retail sales, customer relations, business planning and market planning. In addition Caitlin was instrumental in the launch of Esat Clear. Caitlin also held the position as Global Product Marketing Director with Point Information Systems as well as senior roles with Nevada.tele.com and Irish Broadband.

Caitlin brings a unique brand of energy, know-how and passion to her work. Her experience ranges from dealing with high performance teams across the leisure, tourism and travel industry to working with different cultures in IT and telecommunications. This energy and enthusiasm is infectious and certainly has a long lasting sustainable advantage to those Caitlin mentor's, coaches and trains.

Education has always been a central point of Caitlin's life. Caitlin currently holds Dip LBCAI, Dip Project Management UCC, Dip Direct Marketing (IDMA) and Graduateship in Marketing (MII).

Caitlin is also an Insights accredited partner ensuring measurable achievements and providing cornerstones to improved performance. Caitlin heads Marketing & PR within LBCAI.

Working with Caitlin is very invigorating as she promotes high performance of teams and team members through her challenging style compelling lasting change.