Expansion Coaching
Transformational Leadership Coaching integrating the philosophy and practices of ancient wisdom traditions with modern leadership theory and scientific research
Gráinne McAnallen
I am passionate about business and personal development.
I grew up immersed in business. My father worked in GE for over a decade and then ran his own business for over 35 years, exiting via a management buyout.
I followed my father into the corporate world, finding a job in asset management after my law degree. My role involved assessing investment funds, which encompassed the assessment of investment markets and investment strategies, as well as the organisation’s infrastructure and the investment professionals responsible for all of the above.
I worked in this role for 12 years and over that period came to appreciate first-hand that “culture eats strategy (and everything else) for breakfast”. Leadership matters and the leadership capacity of key members of staff is critical to the culture, and the success, of any business.
My growing intellectual curiosity about the importance of leadership led me to train as an executive coach in 2007. I’ve spent over 15 years since then focused on understanding human beings, what makes us who we are and why we do the things we do.
I’ve studied physiology, neuroscience, psychology, adult development theory, leadership theory, personality type theory, coaching theory, amongst other fields. I’ve also explored ancient wisdom traditions, studying and experiencing the human system through the lens of yogic philosophy and practices and shamanic tradition.
I integrate all of this learning into my coaching approach, recognizing that both the intellectual and the experiential are necessary for true transformation to occur. Transformation occurs at the level of the body-mind complex, so both the body and the mind need to be included in the process. When this happens, the body and mind come into balance, and there is a physical knowing based on intellect and intuition.
If you’re interested in a highly customized personal development journey for you (or your team), to enable you to access the full capacities of your body-mind complex and to achieve your full potential, please schedule an exploratory call here: www.calendly.com/grainnemcanallen.
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Gráinne McAnallen
creating positive change from within
Work With Me
Gráinne McAnallen
I am passionate about business and personal development and my mission is to help businesses and leaders to make wiser business decisions, that deliver win-win outcomes for all stakeholders.
My corporate career consisted of 12 years analysing hedge funds for investment. It was a ring-side seat on the trajectory of well-resourced businesses that were full to the brim with bright and well-educated staff. I had weekly and monthly returns, all kinds of data with analytical tools to slice and dice it, good access to staff and monthly monitoring calls with the Portfolio Managers themselves in order to assess the quality of their performance and make ongoing buy/sell/hold recommendations.
After 12 years, it was abundantly clear to me that the greatest predictor of consistent out-performance over the long term was the quality of leadership and teamwork. Culture did indeed eat strategy for breakfast, and the best firms had both.
So began my coaching and consulting career, and a determination to understand the factors that created outstanding leaders and teams. I cast the net wide and studied everything from coaching to personality type to strengths to adult development, alongside yogic philosophy and practices, shamanism and other wisdom traditions.
I researched academic theory and all kinds of practices, combined the intellectual and the experiential, and have come to appreciate that they are two sides of the same coin and are both required for personal development.
Development is an embodied process and needs to happen at the level of the body AND of the mind.
When we fully appreciate this, and integrate theory and practice in the development approach, we speed up the development journey and unlock the full potential of the human system.
In short, Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom.
Gráinne McAnallen
creating positive change from within
Work With Me
Gráinne McAnallen
I am passionate about business and personal development and my mission is to help businesses and leaders to make wiser business decisions, that deliver win-win outcomes for all stakeholders.
My corporate career consisted of 12 years analysing hedge funds for investment. It was a ring-side seat on the trajectory of well-resourced businesses that were full to the brim with bright and well-educated staff. I had weekly and monthly returns, all kinds of data with analytical tools to slice and dice it, good access to staff and monthly monitoring calls with the Portfolio Managers themselves in order to assess the quality of their performance and make ongoing buy/sell/hold recommendations.
After 12 years, it was abundantly clear to me that the greatest predictor of consistent out-performance over the long term was the quality of leadership and teamwork. Culture did indeed eat strategy for breakfast, and the best firms had both.
So began my coaching and consulting career, and a determination to understand the factors that created outstanding leaders and teams. I cast the net wide and studied everything from coaching to personality type to strengths to adult development, alongside yogic philosophy and practices, shamanism and other wisdom traditions.
I researched academic theory and all kinds of practices, combined the intellectual and the experiential, and have come to appreciate that they are two sides of the same coin and are both required for personal development.
Development is an embodied process and needs to happen at the level of the body AND of the mind.
When we fully appreciate this, and integrate theory and practice in the development approach, we speed up the development journey and unlock the full potential of the human system.
In short, Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom.