Paddy Lavelle
Director Career Perspectives Ltd and Total Impact
Paddy Lavelle is a leadership and communications coach who helps mid-level managers develop and showcase their leadership capability, increase their visibility and ultimately shape their future career. Having worked for three leading Irish organisations in strategically different HR management roles and economic environments, Paddy learned the challenges of being both a manager and a leader through her own experience and through her coaching of other mid-level and senior managers.
“It’s not always easy for mid-level managers to maintain the balance between management and leadership, especially when working in a demanding role, dealing with multiple projects, priorities and teams of people.
Managing everything around you while also focusing on the bigger picture, the changes, challenges and opportunities emerging and how you and your team can make a more valuable and relevant contribution to organisational performance requires you to regularly swap focus from operational to strategic and knowing when to do that.
In addition, a lot mid-level leadership takes place behind the scenes, negotiating, motivating, influencing, getting buy-in and managing a web of relationships throughout the organisation, often with the only visible sign being a problem averted or something agreed going ahead. With this lack of visibility, mid-level managers can often become better known for their management skills than their leadership skills”.
Making a Total Impact
In order to help mid-level managers maximise their current leadership contribution and help organisations to develop their pool of future senior leaders, Paddy created Total Impact. Total Impact provides mid-level managers with the tools, skills and resources they need to increase their leadership impact with their direct reports, line management, colleagues and the senior leadership team, take their career to the next level and help the organisation maximise its potential.
Paddy’s Professional Credentials
- Masters Degree in Education, Training and Development
- Diplomas in Executive and Career Coaching
- Diploma in Business Studies, Training and Development
- Qualified and licensed to use a range of psychometric instruments including Myers Briggs Type Indicator© (Step I and Step II), OPQ, 16PF, Strengthscope®, Belbin Team Roles, Influence Styles Indicator, Thomas International and the Hogan Inventory.
- Qualified NLP Business Practitioner
- Member of the British Psychological Society
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- Member of the Professional Speaking Organisation
- Member of the Association of Coaching
- Distinguished Member of Toastmasters International (DTM)
“Paddy Lavelle has worked with the Irish Rugby Football Union for the last four years in both a training and coaching capacity, helping managers and staff to handle challenging conversations as part of their role and to present and speak with impact in more formal situations.
Her training and coaching programmes are always specifically tailored to the needs of her specific audience, are very engaging and result in instilling significant confidence in trainees in addition to providing practical skills development. I would recommend Paddy to any organization wishing to inspire and develop confidence in managers and employees in their dealings with people”.
Aileen Bailey, HR Director, IRFU
“Paddy Lavelle has worked with Sanofi for a number of years training and coaching managers of key client groups to communicate and present with impact in a variety of situations. Paddy brings significant experience and excellent people and interpersonal skills to her coaching and training and delivers and facilitates well researched, thought provoking and practical progammes specifically tailored to her clients’ needs. Paddy gets excellent feedback from her programmes and her programme participants. I would highly recommend Paddy to any organisation wishing to develop their leadership and management impact”.
Carole Cafferky, Pricing and Access Manager, Sanofi
“I have been working with Paddy for just over 2 years now. In that time she has proven herself as a highly competent and professional trainer and executive coach. She came recommended by Sport Ireland originally and we have asked her to return on countless occasions to facilitate various leadership, management and teambuilding workshops as well as her services as a coach. Paddy is passionate about what she does and give her clients 110%. I would recommend Paddy’s professional services to companies both corporate, sporting or otherwise and looking forward to continuing to work with her in the future.”
Michelle McDonnell, HR Manager, Leinster Rugby
“Paddy has worked with our team on a number of occasions and has impressed at every stage of the process. Her personal style is very engaging, endearing her to our whole team and gaining their trust throughout. She is clearly an excellent facilitator and coach. Paddy has brought a new vitality and perspective to the team which has greatly enhanced our performance. She is also working on further projects with us as a result of her previous success with our team”.
Liam Harbison, Director, Sport Ireland Institute
“Paddy is incredible. She employs an empathetic yet no-nonsense approach to helping you face your own demons and barriers to infinite possibilities.
From the initial phone call to our face-to-face meetings, Paddy and I connected right off the bat. I screened several coaches and mentors before making the investment, and I am so glad I went with Paddy. With other coaches, I came across some very inconsistent packages that didn't even include one-on-one meetings in person. With Paddy, she makes you feel like her biggest priority right from the start. Everything, from our in-person meeting locations to the type of guidance I needed, was completely catered to my individual needs.
My main objective when I reached out to Paddy was to gain insights on how to create and deliver persuasive presentations that had a strategic business focus that would lead to a successful outcome. From our down-to-earth conversations, I ended up exploring options I know I would never have thought up on my own which really helped me unleash my potential. Paddy is an absolute pleasure to work with, and I honestly feel I could meet with her indefinitely and get so much value every single session. With that being said. I would have no hesitation in recommending Paddy to any perspective clients”.
Paul Gaskin – Global Head of Customer Support at Daon
“Paddy Lavelle is a very engaging and effective communications coach, facilitator and trainer. I have worked with Paddy on a number of group training and one-to-one projects and, in particular, on creating and delivering presentations and keynote speeches for large international conferences.
Paddy has the unique ability of helping you find your authentic voice and, with it, the confidence to communicate your message in a way that resonates with others, inspires and motivates them to take action and make a lasting impact. I would highly recommend Paddy to anyone wishing to develop their communication skills, presentation and speaking skills.”
Joan Peppard - Immediate Past President European Association of Hospital Pharmacists
“Paddy Lavelle was a keynote speaker at a careers event in The Institute of Banking where she provided the audience with a practical and valuable insight into how to make an outstanding impact that connects, attracts and persuades with confidence.
Paddy's delivery and style was both highly entertaining and engaging as she showed how to relate to an audience in a way that is relevant and tailored to their needs. Her knowledge is totally relevant to today's business and job market, leaving her audience knowing exactly what to do to excel in a competitive environment. Paddy is also the person you want to know, and you want to keep coming back for more”.
Anna Kucieba, Institute of Banking
“I have worked with Paddy Lavelle on different career placement projects which required a coach who, not only had a strong professional background and experience in helping Managers to successfully transition from career to another, but who also had excellent people skills.
I have found Paddy to be a dedicated and extremely effective career coach who goes the extra mile to support her clients and enable them to achieve their career goals. The feedback from the organisations Paddy has worked with is very positive. She is very empathetic, establishes good relationships with people and gives them every support she can to enable them to achieve their career goals. I would highly recommend Paddy as a Career Coach”.