success should feel different than this.
The system is a performance.
I’m not here to fix the corporate machine. I work with people who've figured that out and don't know what comes next.
the problem
‘I’ve run out of levers and I don’t know if I trust what I’m being told.’
’I’ve tried the ‘go viral’ stuff. It doesn’t work.’
‘Sales and marketing are pointing the finger at each other, and I don’t know which one is the problem.’
‘I’m going round in circles, and my mates are sick of hearing about it.
’I don't want to climb higher. I just want to do the job well, get paid, and keep my actual life intact.’
because everything starts with you.
Ultimately I help individuals and companies cut through the noise, identify the root issue and find a way from A to B - starting with what you’ve already got.
Enough is plenty.
But you have to do the work….
I see the thing people can’t.
The one thing I have always been able to do is ‘read the room’ - any room - boardroom, business, personal - and see exactly what’s happening before anyone’s finished explaining it.
Call it a sixth sense - pattern recognition. Combined with my ‘dulcet’ Belfast straight talking approach - I WILL tell you what I see - not what you want to hear.
I know the cost of the performance personally - and I choose to live differently. I know exactly what it’s costing you - and I will say it out loud.
I’ve tried all the stuff that doesn’t work, so I won’t sell it to you. I don’t do sales emails. I don’t have a framework. I won’t be creating a 60-page deck. And I have nothing to upsell.
the skills are the same.
I was on the exec team that took a company from $2.5M to $100M in four years. I’ve led eight acquisitions, closed a $300M deal with a Fortune 100 and run a $1BN pipeline.
I also made my Sindy’s clothes out of kitchen paper as a child - because getting new outfits only came at Christmas…life in the 70s.
It’s the same skill: Here’s what we’ve got. Here’s where we want to get to. How do we create the connection with what we have.
‘Ciara is the real deal… If you need to see change and you need to see it rapidly – she’s your woman.’
it all starts with a conversation.
CEOs, businesses, people at a crossroads - I work with all of you - just differently.
Sometimes the answer’s in the numbers. Sometimes it’s in the mirror. But there is always an answer and I always find it.
No obligation beyond that. So let’s start there.