Our Faculty

Christine is an expert people professional with a wealth of experience across multiple sectors. She spent several years in the financial services sector in Ireland supporting senior leadership across several jurisdictions working on local and global employee development and change initiatives.

Christine is accredited in several psychometric tools for use in personal, team and leadership coaching and development, as well as selection processes. She is an accredited coach, holds a Masters in Organisational Psychology and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. As a perpetual learner, she is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London.

Christine’s areas of interest include leadership development and gender equality. This includes the experiences of women in Executive and Board level positions and how their experiences can enable a greater understanding on the impact of behaviours to inform the development and progression of women into executive roles.

Aoife is an experienced client relationship manager with 18 years’ experience in the financial sector working in both retail and corporate banking. Throughout her career she has excelled in building strong relationships with her clients across a wide variety of sectors & backgrounds. She is an experienced change agent, with extensive project management and facilitation experience including in the area of “Lean Six Sigma” in which Aoife holds a Level 9 University qualification. Aoife has extensive experience in sales and customer relationship management having led and managed direct and indirect sales teams. She is a Herrmann HBDI ® Certified Practitioner and qualified financial advisor.

Aoife is particularly interested in using her experience and skills to provide an exceptional customer experience for Making Shift Happen’s clients.

David is an experienced financial professional with over 15 years’ experience in senior leadership roles within Corporate, SME and Real Estate Banking and Corporate Finance sectors.

David has significant people management and leadership skills with commercial experience in strategic planning, operations, restructuring, transaction management, and real estate.

David has led a number of major re-organisation and transformation programmes from design phase to activation and full operation. He is a change agent having had responsibility for change management and culture change initiatives within a number of teams.

David is particularly interested in helping individuals and teams unlock their potential and believes that the working environment can bring out the best in people and organisations. David’s experience coupled with his listening, questioning and grounded commercial skills helps people and organisations to make the shift needed to improve performance and increase satisfaction in life and work.

Audrey Burke-McCarthy has over thirty years’ experience in roles that include international marketing, senior management, performance improvement, coaching and general management (latter was in the education sector).  

Audrey’s work spans multinationals, state/semi-state bodies, SMEs, professional services, non-profits, and call centres across sectors like finance, health, technology, engineering, manufacturing, construction, pharma/biopharma, retail, environmental, ICT, and automation.  She provides both individual coaching for leaders and executives, and team coaching services.

Qualifications – Graduateship in Marketing (Marketing Institute of Ireland), Masters in Business Administration, IITD certification in Training and Development, an Advanced Diploma in Personal and Executive Coaching, Prince 2 Foundation in Project Management and EQ-i 2.0 & EQ-i 360 Certified.

Professional Memberships – Professional Fellow designation with the Institute of Coaching (McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate), EMCC Practitioner (European Mentoring and Coaching Council), and an Associate Member of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel Development).

Currently volunteering as secretary on the CIPD Southern Region committee.  She is also volunteering with the EMCC Global Research Centre for Excellence as the Research Learning & Development Lead to promote evidenced based & ethical research practices in coaching, mentoring, and supervision.

Lucy is an award-winning businesswoman and global Executive Coach specialising in women’s leadership development. With 20+ years in corporate (from pharma manufacturing to finance) and experience coaching 500+ leaders across organisations like Google, MSD, Pfizer, PwC, and McKesson, she helps women in senior leadership lead with strategic confidence, executive presence, and impact — without burning out or missing out on life.

Triple-certified in coaching, including positive psychology, Lucy partners with both individuals and organisations to build the skills and resilience needed for long-term success, wellbeing, and retention. She delivers through 1:1 executive coaching, the 3SIXTY Leaders Club membership, and corporate training and keynotes.