The Mentor's team
The Mentors’ team consists of business leaders who have been executives and board members for multiple SME and multinational companies. Whether you are a start-up, an existing business or a family business our mentors can help you and your business in developing new markets, restructuring operations, reaching new target audiences and achieving all your goals.
Gerardine Lally
Gerardine has 30 years’ experience providing training & development and consultancy advice to companies, executives, business owners, senior site leadership teams and senior strategists from a broad variety of multinational organisations and SMEs across Ireland, Europe and the USA. She has an innate understanding of how to deliver internal and external communication projects and has a proven track record of successfully implementing communication strategies for companies across all industrial sectors and professional services.
“I am committed to helping companies recognise and overcome the obstacles they feel are professionally holding them back. Sometimes, all it takes a second pair of eyes and a fresh perspective”.
Experience
Gerardine is a highly recgnised and trusted communications expert, working with companies to revise, redesign and restore whatever communication strategies best fit their business landscape. In 1990, Gerardine established her own bespoke communications consultancy to specifically provide training across various communication projects. Since its inception, the firm has gone from strenght to strengh, she has gone from strength to strength and is known as a thought leader in communications. The breadth of communications projects Gerardine has led include stakeholder & community consultations, reporting & analysis results presentations, crafting key company messages, design of communication plans in times of acquisition / restructuring and change management.
Key Attributes
- Proven track record
- Ability to make technical information accessible to diverse audiences
- Thought Leader in Communications
- Experienced media handler
- Ability to motivate, drive and lead a diverse team to success
- Unique style of writing and speech crafting for keynote speeches and all hands meetings
- Proven successful communications formula for companies across all industrial sectors and professional services.
- Fast turnaround time, reads an audience, understands a brief quickly and maximises time available
Gerardine firmly believes in the importance of helping and mentoring clients tailor impactful and dynamic communication strategies to best fit their motive. Gerardine has consulted and worked with hundreds of high-profile clients across multiple synergies including professional services, medical device, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and technology. The experience gained by Gerardine from working on large scale local and international projects with industry experts places Gerardine in a unique and unrivalled position.
Key Skills
- Communication Strategy
- Communications Training
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Change Management
- Brand Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Management Buyouts
- Expert Witness Preparation
- Bid Management
- Presentations
Sectors
- Professional Services
- Infrastructure
- Medical Technology/ Devices
- Entertainment
- Retail
- Manufacturing