Alan Brereton

Alan is a senior lecturer in coaching and mentoring and is the course designer of the EMCC and ICF accredited Professional Diploma in Team Coaching. He also designs and delivers continuing professional development content for accredited coaches, with a strong focus on the understandable application of competencies and ethics, and the practical behaviours that make a confident and effective practitioner.

For organisations with established coaching programmes, or ambitions of a coaching culture, Alan provides expert advice and consultation on design, implementation and quality assurance. Having worked in this way with enterprise level organisations such as AIB, ESB, Irish Defence Forces, Local Government Management Agency, Tusla, and Paypal, Alan brings multiple perspectives and insights into sectors such as government, military, finance and technology.

Alan has also designed quality assurance procedures for internal coaching programmes, including the performance evaluation of existing internal coaches, ensuring continued alignment to ICF and EMCC competencies and ethics.

The language of coaching and mentoring is an area of particular interest for Alan, and he considers the client gaining a better understanding of how their brain works, as a key enabler. He can be seen delivering a keynote on this topic at the Coaching and Mentoring Conference

Coupled with education and experience in HR, law, and media, Alan brings a curious and creative mindset to all levels of coaching and mentoring strategy.