Family Business Unit

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Family Business Unit

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    The Family Business Unit is a consultancy dedicated to small to medium sized family owned businesses. We typically work with Business Owners, Family Members, Professional Advisors and Management and with each consultancy we bring the benefits of 25 years of practical experience with family businesses in Ireland.

    Training and development is available in the following areas :

    • Family Conflict Reduction & Resolution
    • Family Meetings, Retreats and Learning
    • Succession Planning and Generational Transition
    • Contingency Planning
    • Family Charter and Business Rules
    • Governance and Board Development
    • Sustainability Planning
    • HR Consultancy
    • Strategic Coaching of Senior Family Members
    • Developing Living Values and Vision
    • Coaching for Future Leadership

    In addition to the consultancy outlined above we provide a range of Executive and Management Development courses for Family Business as follows;

    • Leadership Development 
    • Team Development
    • Coaching and Mentoring Skills
    • Survival of the Business (Contingency Planning)
    • Introduction to Succession Planning
    • Conflict Resolution
    • Governance and Formalisation
    • Developing Living Values and Vision

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    Meet the Team

    Karl Hyden

    With 27 years’ experience in management, supervision, training & development disciplines, Karl works as a business mentor, strategist, consultant and master level coach with 17 years’ consultancy, coaching and mentoring experience with SME clients. To date, Karl has supported 1,000+ small and medium businesses owners from 27 countries.

    Karl has Masters Degrees in both Human Resource Management and Performance, a primary degree including Interpersonal Communications (Psychology), advanced studies in Organizational Transactional Analysis (Psychology) and qualifications in Mediation and Business Coaching.

    He is a Chartered Fellow with the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) a Fellow with the Irish Institute of Training & Development (IITD) and a Member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the Institute of Directors (IoD).

    To read more about Karl click here

    Paddy Ryan

    Over the past twenty-five years Paddy has worked in HR T&D at Director and Executive level. He has worked in heavy Industry, in Hi-tech, Medical Devices as well as Software reselling and Construction; leading teams across Europe, the Middle East and Asia for Global and international businesses. Most recently he headed up the Human Resources Department Mercury Engineering a major Irish based international business.

    Throughout his career the one constant driver has been the development of people. The senior positions filled in, the UK and Ireland with British Steel and Smith & Nephew and mainland Europe with Software Spectrum and Insight, US multinational and global companies have focussed on best practice HR and leading edge Training and Development.

    To read more about Paddy click here

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