Maria O’Dwyer

Maria is an accredited executive coach who specialises in guiding professionals through change in their professional life. With over 12 years’ experience in Recruitment and HR, Maria’s coaching style is rooted in real-world experience, guided by insights and deeply attuned to people’s needs.

As a coach, Maria’s signature strength is her ability to connect with her clients, offering both support and challenge, motivating her clients to take meaningful action toward their goals.

With Harmonics, Maria offers 1:1 Career Transition Programmes, 1:1 Career Stocktake Programmes and 1:1 Executive Coaching Programmes as well as facilitating Group Outplacement Workshops and Career Development programmes.

Valerie Brereton

Valerie is an accredited executive coach who specializes in enhancing professional performance during periods of growth and transition.

Her successful career in sales sparked a passion for performance psychology. Through her work in management and training—and her own lived experience—she understands the challenges professionals face when striving for excellence amid personal and professional hurdles, as well as the transformative impact that evidence-based coaching can deliver.

To ensure clients receive high quality support, Valerie earned MSc degrees in Personal and Management Coaching from University College Cork and in Pluralistic Psychotherapy from the Irish Institute of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Today, she blends business acumen with solution-focused strategies and a broad range of psychological approaches—including acceptance and commitment coaching and mindful awareness—helping clients build confidence, strengthen decision-making skills, maximize leadership potential, and embed mental fitness strategies that enable them to thrive in demanding situations.

Eileen Woodford

A highly skilled and accredited executive coach and facilitator, Eileen has over 15 years’ experience delivering sustainable change for individuals and organisations she has worked with across multiple sectors.

With a depth of business experience and an ability to connect with people at all levels, Eileen works with organisations to champion a people-first agenda.

Quick to establish trust and rapport.  Extremely supportive in her role as coach and facilitator, she will also challenge her clients’ thinking appropriately based on her insights and training to encourage stretch in terms of personal growth and development.