Trainer Profiles

Frank is a Senior Training Associate at Optimum Results for over a decade. He has been involved in management and business development for almost twenty years during which time he has worked with some of the country’s largest businesses. Frank is a widely experienced Trainer, Consultant and Executive Coach as well as being Chairman of a number of Companies, for example Botanic Inns Ltd in Northern Ireland. He has been involved in facilitating and developing strategies for many substantial organisations including a US owned manufacturing company with $1 billion turnover in Europe. He is also retained by a number of UK and Irish based companies and organisations to provide ongoing strategic support and advice, some of these for over 15 years. Frank has lectured extensively and been involved in the delivery of many programmes for organisations including The Irish Times, University of Ulster, Invest N.I and Enterprise Boards.

Dee Murphy MBS, BSc (Hons), MIA H. Dip is an Organisational and Career Strategist – helping people discover what excites them, developing their brand and giving them the tools to build a life around what they enjoy doing in a unique and valuable way. A senior training consultant with Optimum Results, Dee holds an MBS in Management & Organisational Consultancy from the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD, a BSc (Hons) in Psychology with Psychoanalysis (PSI Accredited) and an MIA in Public Relations and Communications. She has extensive experience in training and development across a range of corporate and educational settings from working with people in top-tier Management, MBA and at under-graduate level to those from challenging backgrounds and disadvantaged communities. With published and awarded research on gender biased teaching practices and their effects as we move into adulthood, Dee is a champion of “women in the boardroom”, aiming to help debunk stereotypical discriminations.

Andrew is a Senior Associate Consultant at Optimum Results. His training & consultancy style blends seamlessly with the 20 year old philosophy of our company “a company is only as good as its people and the better the team perform the more successful its business performance”. Mostly specialising in the Retail & Service sector, he engages with the key stakeholders to develop and deliver early and significant results. He boasts strong leadership skills, decisiveness and clarity in communication as part of the success of his career in Management Training, Consultancy, Coaching and Mentoring. He has accumulated a wealth of business knowledge and experience from across many sectors in home and foreign market places. Andrew is a Member of the Irish Institute of Training & Development and the International Coaching Federation. He is a Qualified Executive & Business Coach and Project Manager.

Halala Ahmadi holds a first class honours BBS degree in Marketing with languages and a Masters in Business Studies (Entrepreneurship and Marketing) from the Dundalk Institute of Technology. Now on a path to achieving a PhD and a Business Development Intern at Optimum Results, she is making excellent use of her cross-cultural expertise and her passion for languages which include English, Kurdish, Arabic and Spanish. She is a past finalist in Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur competition and has developed excellent leadership and interpersonal skills through supervising and coordinating multi-cultural projects. Halala has a particular interest in bringing ‘international best practices in SME Development Services to emerging economies through the use of Online & Blended Learning technologies which is the main focus of her work with Optimum Results.

Founder of the Irish based businesses Optimum Results (Business Skills Training) and Customer Perceptions (Consumer Research) in 1995. Aidan has over 30 years of wide ranging management experience across many sectors and known for the design and delivery of highly results focused, practical and cost effective services to “Improve the performance of an organisation through improving the performance of its people”.Originally a Commerce student in his native Cork, Aidan has an MSc in Executive Leadership, two ‘Business Counseling’ qualications and a formally qualified trainer. He’s a Graduate & Fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland and the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants & Business Advisers, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership & Management and is prominent in a number of other business organisations in Ireland and overseas.

With over 15 years’ experience working in adult education and training, Lorraine is a Senior Associate Trainer / Consultant with Optimum Results. She is a talented and accomplished Executive Coach, Soft Skills Trainer and Special Projects Consultant who heightens awareness of existing skills & resources and facilitates clients to identify the strategies needed to succeed. Lorraine has experience of working in several countries and across public, private & SME sectors. Her aim is to create a safe environment for professional and personal development, and then to offer powerful support and direction so that real results are achieved. As well as her work with Business Managers and their staff, Loraine has led several initiatives in the field of developing the competencies of Women in Business / Female Entrepreneurship and was recently awarded the Global Essence Entrepreneur Award 2015. Lorraine is formally qualified as a Trainer and in Mindfulness Therapy, holds an MA Adult & Community Education, a HDip Adult & Community Education, a BA Hons Applied Languages and a Diploma in Executive & Life Coaching.