Ireland’s Leading
At Team EVOLVE, we believe every organisation has the potential to achieve lasting excellence. Unlike many change management companies, we go beyond surface-level fixes to deliver sustainable organisational transformation. Our mission is to create workplaces where strategy is clear, people feel supported, and culture is safe — enabling teams to thrive and organisations to grow.
Our Mission and Core Values
Mission Statement
Our mission is simple yet powerful: to guide organisations through transformational change that sticks. Using our evidence-based 3-S Model, we help leaders unlock hidden potential, improve performance, and build resilient cultures.
Our Values
The values that guide our work aren’t just words on a page — they shape how we partner with every client:
Authenticity
We believe in transparency and truth, building real trust with the leaders and teams we support.
Wisdom
Drawing on decades of expertise and research, we apply the right insight at the right time to solve complex challenges.
Courage
True transformation requires bravery. We challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and help leaders step into change with confidence.
Collaboration
No consultant can change an organisation alone. We co-create strategies with your team, ensuring every solution is practical and sustainable.
Meet Your Transformation Partners
Behind Team EVOLVE is a multidisciplinary team of organisational change consultants who blend deep expertise with hands-on experience. Unlike many change management companies that focus on a single area, we bring together a full spectrum of transformation specialists to address every part of your organisation.
From neuroleadership coaching that builds resilient, people-first leaders, to Lean Six Sigma consultants who streamline operations for efficiency, to creative marketing and revenue operations experts who align brand, culture, and scalable growth — our approach covers every angle. We also integrate workplace wellbeing coaching and Fractional CFO insights, ensuring both your people and your financial strategy thrive through change.
At the heart of this is our Core Leadership Team, supported by a network of specialist consultants. Together, our 12 experts bring the wisdom, creativity, and courage needed to guide your organisation through lasting transformation.
Core Leadership Team
Denise O'Brien
Founder & Managing Director, Organisational Change Expert
Award-winning organisational transformation specialist
Denise is the creator of the proprietary 3-S Model and has dedicated three decades to helping organisations unlock their potential. With extensive experience in financial services and a passion for authentic leadership, she's guided everyone from SMEs to multinational corporations through successful transformations.
Her EVOLVE programme was recognised as a finalist in the 'Best L&D Collaboration' category by the Learning and Development Institute in 2024. Clients working with Denise have achieved Great Place to Work certification and been listed in the Top Ten Best Places to Work.
Named Network Ireland Limerick 2024 Solo Businesswoman of the Year and 2025 Networker of the Year, Denise is currently completing her Masters in Work and Organisational Behaviour at University of Limerick. She brings evidence-based methodologies combined with deep human understanding to every transformation journey.
What sets Denise apart is her commitment to sustainable change - building capabilities that endure long after the engagement ends, ensuring your people become agents of their own continued evolution.
Dr Áine O'Dea
Neuroleadership Coach & Occupational Therapist PhD
Neuroscience-backed leadership development expert
Dr. Áine is one of Ireland's most renowned Occupational Therapists and the first OT in Ireland to win a scholarship to the prestigious SPHeRE programme, where she earned her doctorate in Population Health & Health Research.
She's created the RADIANT neuroleadership executive coaching method, bringing transformational outcomes for clients as they follow their goals to lead, succeed and surpass expectations. Her expertise extends to talent attraction and retention, supporting working parents, and enhancing Diversity, Equity, Belonging & Inclusion policies through neurodiversity awareness.
What makes Dr. Áine invaluable to Team EVOLVE is her ability to translate complex neuroscience into practical leadership tools. She creates lasting behavioural change by helping leaders understand how their brains work, making transformation both scientifically sound and deeply personal.
Her approach ensures that leadership development isn't just inspirational - it's neurologically sustainable, creating new neural pathways that support long-term excellence.
Kerri Turner
Fractional CFO & Chartered Accountant Ireland
Financial optimisation and strategic planning specialist
Kerri is a Chartered Accountant who works as a Fractional CFO, bringing financial expertise and strategic insight to Team EVOLVE's transformation programmes. Her role ensures that all organisational change initiatives are grounded in sound business principles and deliver measurable ROI.
With extensive experience in financial planning and performance measurement, Kerri helps organisations understand the true cost and value of transformation. She creates compelling business cases that secure stakeholder buy-in and establishes metrics that track genuine success.
What Kerri brings to Team EVOLVE is financial rigour without losing sight of human impact. She ensures that transformation investments pay dividends, providing the strategic framework that turns organisational change into sustainable business advantage.
Her expertise is particularly valuable for growing SMEs who need to scale efficiently whilst maintaining financial discipline and operational excellence.
Stacy Franklin
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt & Process Optimisation Expert
Operational excellence and lean transformation specialist
Stacy is the CEO of Kanso and a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with extensive experience in transforming organisational operations. Her expertise lies in identifying inefficiencies, streamlining processes, and building systems that support sustainable growth.
Working with Team EVOLVE, Stacy brings the operational rigour that ensures transformation initiatives don't just inspire - they deliver measurable, lasting results. Her lean methodology perfectly complements the 3-S Model, ensuring that organisational changes are both strategically sound and operationally viable.
What makes Stacy essential to the team is her ability to turn vision into reality. She creates the operational infrastructure that supports cultural change, ensuring that new behaviours become embedded in daily processes rather than remaining aspirational.
Her philosophy centres on the belief that the best transformations happen when people and processes work in harmony, creating environments where excellence becomes the natural outcome.
Specialist Team Members
Helen McNulty
Creative Marketing & Brand Storytelling Specialist
Brand strategy and creative marketing expert
Helen brings creative marketing expertise and brand storytelling mastery to Team EVOLVE's transformation programmes. Her role ensures that organisational change isn't just internally focused - it's communicated authentically and compellingly both within and beyond the organisation.
With extensive experience in brand development and creative strategy, Helen helps organisations articulate their transformation journey in ways that inspire stakeholders, attract talent, and build market credibility.
What Helen contributes to Team EVOLVE is the understanding that transformation must be felt as well as understood. She creates the narrative frameworks that help organisations tell their change story authentically, building engagement and momentum throughout the journey.
Her expertise is particularly valuable for organisations whose transformation includes rebranding, market repositioning, or cultural shifts that need external communication.
Andy O'Gorman
Revenue Operations Consultant & Sales Strategy Expert
RevOps and sales optimisation specialist
Andy brings revenue operations expertise and sales strategy mastery to Team EVOLVE, ensuring that organisational transformation translates into improved commercial performance. His background spans marketing, sales, and channel management across diverse industries.
With deep experience in RevOps optimisation, Andy helps organisations align their people, processes, and technology to drive sustainable revenue growth. He understands that true transformation must deliver commercial results whilst maintaining authentic culture.
What Andy adds to Team EVOLVE is the commercial lens that ensures transformation initiatives drive business results. He creates the revenue frameworks that support organisational change, ensuring that improved culture translates into improved performance.
His expertise is particularly valuable for scaling organisations that need to optimise their commercial operations whilst building sustainable, people-focused cultures.
Sarah Blake
Sustainability Leadership & B Corp Certification Expert
Climate-conscious transformation and ESG specialist
Sarah is the founder of Earthology and brings over 25 years of business experience in Sustainability, Human Resources (CIPD Associate) and Horticulture (RHS trained). After studying Sustainability Leadership at Cambridge University, she's dedicated to helping employees and companies on their sustainability journey.
Sarah is a member of the Al Gore Climate Reality chapter in Ireland and has assisted more than 24 companies with B Corp Certification. She helps companies access the Enterprise Ireland 'Green Start for Business' grant and runs Certified Carbon Literacy courses for Senior Leaders and Green Teams.
What Sarah brings to Team EVOLVE is the expertise to integrate sustainability into organisational transformation seamlessly. She proves that companies can make a profit whilst being planet positive, creating business practices that drive both environmental and financial returns.
Her approach combines the Inner Development Goals framework with practical sustainability implementation, ensuring that transformation creates both organisational excellence and positive environmental impact.
Don O'Sullivan
Governance & Policy Expert, Former Shannon Airport Group Executive
40+ years IT leadership and governance specialist
Don brings over 40 years of IT leadership and governance expertise to Team EVOLVE, having served as a senior executive with Shannon Airport Group. His extensive background in risk management, cybersecurity governance, and strategic IT planning provides crucial infrastructure expertise to transformation programmes.
With deep experience in aviation industry operations and regulatory compliance, Don understands the complexities of transforming large, regulated organisations whilst maintaining operational excellence and safety standards.
What Don contributes to Team EVOLVE is governance rigour and risk management expertise that ensures transformation initiatives are both ambitious and sustainable. He provides the strategic oversight that helps organisations navigate complex change whilst maintaining compliance and operational integrity.
His expertise is particularly valuable for organisations in regulated industries or those undergoing significant digital transformation alongside cultural change.
Sharanya Nair
Organisational Psychology Research Specialist
Evidence-based organisational development expert
Sharanya holds an MSc in Work & Organisational Psychology and serves as Team EVOLVE's research specialist, ensuring that all transformation programmes are grounded in the latest organisational psychology research and evidence-based methodologies.
Her role involves conducting organisational assessments, analysing transformation data, and ensuring that Team EVOLVE's approaches remain at the cutting edge of organisational development science.
What Sharanya brings to Team EVOLVE is the research rigour that ensures transformation programmes are both theoretically sound and practically effective. She bridges the gap between academic research and real-world application, ensuring that clients benefit from the latest insights in organisational psychology.
Her expertise is particularly valuable for organisations that want transformation programmes backed by solid research evidence and measurable psychological safety improvements.
Orla Canney
Business Support & Organisational Behaviour Specialist
MSc Work & Organisational Behaviour, operations expert
Orla holds an MSc in Work & Organisational Behaviour and was named Network Ireland Rising Star 2024, bringing both academic expertise and practical operational excellence to Team EVOLVE programmes.
Her role ensures that transformation initiatives are supported by robust operational frameworks and that organisational behaviour change is both sustainable and measurable.
What Orla contributes to Team EVOLVE is the operational excellence that turns transformation vision into daily reality. She creates the systems and processes that support behavioural change, ensuring that new ways of working become embedded rather than temporary.
Her expertise is particularly valuable for organisations that need to scale their operations whilst maintaining the personal touch and cultural authenticity that drives engagement.
Gillian O'Gorman
Workplace Wellbeing & Resilience Coach
Employee wellbeing and resilience specialist
Gillian specialises in workplace wellbeing and resilience coaching, bringing essential expertise in supporting individuals and teams through organisational change. Her background ensures that transformation programmes prioritise psychological safety and employee wellbeing.
With extensive experience in resilience building and stress management, Gillian helps organisations create the supportive environments where people can thrive during periods of change and uncertainty.
What Gillian adds to Team EVOLVE is the wellbeing lens that ensures transformation is both effective and humane. She creates the support systems that help people navigate change positively, building resilience that serves both individual and organisational success.
Her expertise is particularly valuable for organisations experiencing significant change, merger activity, or scaling challenges where employee wellbeing could be at risk.
Elma Carew
Human Resources & People Development Specialist
HR strategy and people development expert
Elma Carew is a Chartered Fellow FCIPD Senior HR Professional with over 20 years of experience across sectors including tech, medical devices, financial services, manufacturing, construction, aviation, and not-for-profit. She has held senior HR leadership roles for over a decade, supporting organisations through all stages of growth and change.
Elma specialises in strategic and operational HR, with deep expertise in employee relations, leadership development, recruitment, organisational culture, wellbeing and people manager training. She has reviewed and interviewed thousands of candidates, led HR functions both as a standalone lead and within teams, and supported leaders through complex people challenges.
Alongside her HR consulting work, Elma is also a qualified executive and career coach, bringing a person-centred, solution-focused approach to every engagement.
Shannon Kearney
Digital Transformation Specialist
Co-Founder of SquaredMap, and Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Shannon Kearney is a Digital Transformation Consultant, Co-Founder of SquaredMap, and Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. She specialises in helping SMEs embrace digital adoption, AI integration, Lean practices, and sustainability transformation.
Through her consultancy SquaredMap and her role with Jigsaw Better Business, Shannon has delivered over 50 digital and Lean projects across multiple sectors, supporting SMEs to build resilience, improve efficiency, and achieve measurable results.
Previously, she held senior transformation roles at Dawn Farm Foods, leading initiatives in Digital Lean and Green Lean across large manufacturing sites. Recognised for her practical coaching style, she was awarded Lean Business of the Year and Lean Sustainability of the Year at the 2022 LBI Awards.
Shannon is passionate about making transformation accessible, sustainable, and impactful, enabling businesses to embed lasting change.
How Team EVOLVE Works Differently
Most change management companies approach transformation with a narrow lens. Team EVOLVE takes a broader, integrated path. Our proven 3-S Model ensures transformation that sticks: your strategy is clearly Signposted, your people genuinely Supported, and your culture made psychologically Safe. This creates the conditions where excellence is not optional, but inevitable.
Unlike other top change management consulting firms that focus on one discipline, Team EVOLVE is a full-spectrum transformation consultancy. We bring together:
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Neuroleadership coaching to build resilient, people-first leaders
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Lean Six Sigma consultants to streamline processes and boost efficiency
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Creative marketing specialists to align brand, culture, and customer experience
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Revenue operations consultants to unlock scalable growth
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Workplace wellbeing coaches to foster psychologically safe environments
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Fractional CFOs to ensure financial sustainability throughout transformation
This multidisciplinary approach means we address every angle of your organisational journey, not just surface-level challenges. With us, you don’t just get an organisational change consultant — you get a team that understands how every part of your business connects and evolves.
Every framework we use is grounded in research and science, yet always applied with human understanding. Your transformation is both scientifically sound and deeply personal to your organisation’s unique needs.
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