Expansion Coaching
Whole Brain Leadership
“Are you working with your whole brain?
Or do you have a clear bias for one side over the other?
When you can balance left and right brain thinking, a creative tension emerges that crafts solutions that are beyond the capability of the left brain or the right brain independently. Your brain and the
outcomes produced are more balanced.”
– Grainne McAnallen
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
Integrated Body-Mind Leadership
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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.
Gráinne McAnallen
Whole Brain Leadership
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Gráinne McAnallen
Grainne McAnallen is an executive coach and systemic practitioner with 15 years’ direct experience in the corporate world and 15 years’ experience as a coach.
She specialises in 1:1 coaching for high performing leaders and talented individuals, and has worked with leaders across all sectors, in private businesses, in not-for-profit organisations and in publicly listed companies.
Grainne has a background in financial services and spent 12 years’ analysing and investing in hedge funds. Responsible for $1.6BN, she had privileged access to hedge fund organisations to conduct her due diligence and for the ongoing monitoring of investments. She learned a great deal about what differentiated the great from the good and about the important of leadership and teamwork to overall business success.
Since becoming a coach, she has applied her analytical skills to understanding individual and team performance and has studied a broad number of subjects including physiology, psychology, neuroscience, leadership theory, strengths theory, personality theory, adult development theory and systemic constellations.
She supports her clients with both the inner work and the outer work necessary to be a strong leader. The inner work improves self-awareness, enables broader perspective taking and unlocks inner resources. The outer work cultivates the conditions or container to allow the leader and their team to show up at their best and to thrive, individually and collectively.