Virtual CPD Update – Thriving Through Resilience and Reinvention (ROI/NI) On Demand

This course was recorded in September 2024 and is suitable for accountants, and other business professionals, at all levels and from all sectors, given the scope, agenda and fast-moving pace of the sessions.

Barry Doyle - President, Chartered Accountants Ireland

Beyond Resilience: How to Use Adversity as Fuel for Growth (Brian Pennie, founder of Change is Possible)
Learn how to use life's challenges to our advantage, and ultimately, using adversity as our fuel for growth. By combining his own lived experience of turning anxiety into a superpower, Brian will deliver a series of evidence-based tools to help you to transform life's inevitable challenges　into a way to learn and grow.

Stronger Together…building resilience through a network (Maria O’Connell, Experienced NED and Board Governance Consultant)

In this session you will hear how building solid relationships and nurturing a strong support network were key enablers in developing resilience to successfully carve out a highly rewarding and fulfilling career. Maria will relay her personal experiences and career progression, all filtered through the lens of resilience and reinvention…detailing the many challenges she has overcome, and how she overcame them.

Applying Resilience and Reinvention in the Real World: A Case Study: (John O’Neill, Tickets.ie)
John returns to this year’s Virtual CPD update session after speaking about the challenges his business faced during the pandemic at our 2021 conference. In this year’s session John will provide an update on his business activities since 2021, the challenges and obstacles overcome and what he had to do to ensure his business continued to survive.

Embracing Reinvention: Take That Leap and Achieve Your Highest Potential (Charlotte Rose Keating, Act On It Coaching)
Pursuing a goal, embarking on a new challenge and stepping out of your comfort zone brings excitement, but let’s face it—can also be terrifying. Becoming all that you are meant to be involves an element of risk. Scary stuff, right? Instead of leaping recklessly into the unknown or waiting for that proverbial net to show up before you make your next move, what if you could be your own safety net as you take charge of your future?  Join us for an empowering session where we'll explore how to take control of your journey, become the architect of your own safety net, and transform your dreams into reality with courage and confidence!

Maria O’Connell

Experienced Non-Executive Director & Board Governance Consultant. Maria is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland with extensive experience in asset management and investment funds developed over a 30 year career. She qualified with PwC, working in Ireland and Italy, before moving into a managerial operational role at JP Morgan in Milan, Italy in 1992. This move marked the start of a successful career journey in financial services which rarely followed the traditional accountancy career pathway. Maria has held Senior Executive, Leadership and Regulatory roles in global facing organisations, including State Street Global Advisors, Irish Funds and Bank of Ireland Asset Management. She is an experienced Non-Executive Director and has a highly successful track record in effective and efficient Board Governance design and implementation. Maria has considerable experience in successfully leading on regulatory, governance, strategic and business critical initiatives, working alongside Boards of Directors, CEOs and C-Suite Executives. Her most recent role was Vice President - Business Strategy and Governance at the State Street Global Advisors Europe Limited. Maria is a committed and enthusiastic mentor and a firm believer in the power of our networks in building and fostering resilience throughout our career journey.

James McSporran

James McSporran has 15 years of qualified facilitation & coaching experience across all leadership levels. His unique method blends ideas from psychology, executive education and performance coaching, allowing for genuine personal and team development. He regularly works with executive leadership teams to deliver workshops, keynotes & 1:1 coaching. With a relational style, he helps clients explore issues while intelligently offering challenge, provocation, and an alternative perspective. Clients include BP, Nestle, YPO, Barclays, NHS, RBS, Sellafield, Alvarez & Marsal, Grant Thornton, Caffè Nero, Scottish Water, Sainsburys, Queens University Belfast. Half of his work is also in the creative industry, working closely with talent in TV, Film, Media, Music and Advertising

John O'Neill

John is the Founder and CEO of Tickets.ie/Oshi Software Limited, which specialises in the development of innovative and highly scalable ticketing software solutions. He is an Internationally recognised expert in ticketing technology and pricing discovery and optimisation systems. He is also technical adviser to a number of start-ups in fintech, live streaming and ecommerce

Brian Pennie

Charlotte Rose Keating

Charlotte Rose Keating is an FCA. She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a Law degree and then trained as a Chartered Accountant in Deloitte. Since qualifying, she has enjoyed a mix of experience across a variety of sectors in Ireland and the United States, as well as working as a professional actor.
Charlotte is the founder of "Act On It Coaching" and, as an accredited coach (IAPC&M) and certified trainer (QQI, Level 6) and speaker, she works with individuals and organisations to support personal and professional development journeys. She also volunteers with the International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring as Resolution and Relationships Manager.
Charlotte is particularly passionate about supporting people working in the Chartered Accountancy profession to reach their full potential and feel fulfilled in what they do, from trainee to newly qualified and beyond!