Brendan Mc Guinness

Coach, mentor and team facilitator

Brendan McGuinness is a coach, mentor and team facilitator who supports people and businesses in raising self-awareness and development. Achieving clarity and moving individuals and teams towards potential within systems are key abilities. Other areas of interest and activity include building work relationships, creating environments that include psychological safety and maximizing effect and capacity within diverse workforces.

Having completed the Professional Women’s Network (PWN) Male Allyship programme in 2026, Brendan has taken on the role of volunteer Programme Co-Ordinator for the PWN. He is an EMCC accredited coach at senior practitioner level and holds an MSc in Executive Coaching from Smurfit Business School, UCD. He is also a graduate of the Military College with an MA in Management, Leadership, and Defence Studies from Maynooth University.

Brendan served in the Irish Army for over 40 years to March 2026. Before completion of his service in March 2026, his role was General Officer Commanding the Defence Forces Training Center, Curragh Camp. During his military career, he gathered experience when serving with the UN, EU, NATO PfP and, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in a wide range of military and non-military roles. A key area of work during service was the seeding, stewarding and development of formal coaching and mentoring programmes within the Irish Defence Forces. Military appointments included, Commander of Joint Task Force and School Commandant, Infantry School and Director of Infantry, Headquarters Support Group Commander, KFOR (Kosovo), Officer Commanding the 51st Infantry Group, UNIFIL (Lebanon) and Officer Commanding 7th Infantry Battalion and Cathal Brugha Barrack, Dublin.