Olive fives Management organisational development
testimonials
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Ramani Sankaranarayanan, President
and Geeta Vaidyanathan, Vice PresidentCTxGreen, Canada & India
"We would like to thank you for your inputs to the CTx Green Business Plan. You have helped us fine-tune the document, making it concise and precise. Your feedback helped us reorient our vision, mission and our goal, and emphasize our unique qualities as a team. We were also able to clearly define our products and strategy in our Business Plan. In the process, you got us thinking about the revenue streams that must steer our progress towards the goal: local food and fuel security for global environmental security".
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Joe Madiath, Founder and Executive Director
Gram Vikas, India
"Olive Fives has been working with the Gram Vikas team for the past year, mostly working on strategic planning and implementation but also supporting us by acting as a sounding board and coach. Her commitment, pragmatism and energy have gained the trust and respect of the management team and others. Her insights, along with her analytical and conceptual abilities have made a valuable contribution to our work. We wish her every success and are happy to recommend her work."
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Tom O’Brien, Group Human Resources Manager
Shaws Department Stores
"Olive has worked as a consultant to Shaws for over 10 years and, in that time, has demonstrated a commitment to understanding our business and culture, and applying that understanding to her proposals and work. She stays focused on outcomes and results and, with her positive energy, challenges us to do the same. Over the years, Olive has built relationships with our directors and managers built on trust and respect."
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Kay Joyce, Regional Learning Manager Europe
Global Learning and Development
"I worked with Olive in Oracle when the organisation was setting up its EMEA Sales, Marketing and Technical centre in Dublin. We developed a competency model together to enable the organisational retention, development and succession planning strategy. This work was groundbreaking and creative with the inclusion of many stakeholders and the work was utilised to support similar strategies in other divisions’ Talent Management initiatives. Olive brought creativity, challenge, support and pragmatism to the project and her involvement led to the great success of this project."
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Brendan Griffin, Finance Director
IMRO, Ireland
Worldwide Talent and Organisational Capability"I found Olive's approach informative, constructive, and extremely helpful. Peeling back the layers around various issues, I found increased my awareness of others, my place within my organisation and my future. She suggested solutions and different approaches, but left choosing and implementing them to me. My self-discipline and confidence improved as a result. I would have no hesitation in recommending Olive as a executive coach."
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David Madden, Managing Director
Madden's Entertainment, Ireland
"Olive is an excellent coach - I found her very skillful in allowing me to work through difficult decisions while challenging me at the same time, which can sometimes be a difficult balance to achieve. Crucially, she focused me on arriving at my own solutions and not her own. Olive also has a very strong background in Organisational Development and has an intuitive grasp of personnel issues and team dynamics. I have no hesitation in recommending Olive to anyone in a leadership role who is seeking to work with a business coach."
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Alan McKnight, Managing Director
Cara Partners
Worldwide Talent and Organisational Capability“Olive has worked as a coach and a facilitator to the Cara Partners Management Team for several years and during that time her energetic style and commitment to our business made a valuable contribution to us as a team and as individuals. Olive’s coaching is insightful and incisive, she gets to the heart of the matter and manages to be both supportive and challenging.”
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Helen Murphy, Head of Literacy Development Centre
Waterford Institute of Technology
“I have worked with Olive over the past 10 years across a number of different organisations including the Irish Management Institute, the Crafts Council of Ireland and Waterford Institute of Technology. Olive has always taken a creative approach to management development and aligns her practical know how with current best thinking to design and deliver programmes that challenge and develop participants skills and competencies while ensuring the organisational and individual learning goals are met."
