Meet the Team

Dr Sarah MacCurtain is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in the Department of Work and Employment Studies in Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick.. She received her PhD from Aston Business School in 2005. Previous roles include Course Director of the Certificate in HR and the MSc in HRM.

Prof. John Fahy

An award winning international researcher and teacher, John Fahy is Professor of Marketing at the University of Limerick and Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the University of Adelaide. He has a distinguished track record in the fields of marketing and business strategy and is particularly known for his work in the area of marketing resources and capabilities.

Dr. Moran Anisman-Razin

Dr. Moran Anisman-Razin, C.Psychol.Ps.S.I., is an Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology in the Department of Work and Employment Studies at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick.
She is also a Visiting Research Scholar at the Behavioral Science and Policy Center, Social Science Research Institute at Duke University, USA.
Through research and executive education she examines evidence-based ways to develop leaders, who are both effective and courageous, specifically focusing on everyday acts of courage and how we can all find our courage to achieve the things that are meaningful for us.

Prof. Michael Morley

Professor Michael Morley holds the Chair in Management at the Kemmy Business School, where he also serves as Assistant Dean for Research.
He teaches management on undergraduate programmes and international and cross-cultural management on MSc and Executive MBA programmes.

Dr. Annmarie Ryan

My research and teaching practice is concerned with understanding the complexities of the digital world with a focus on the shaping and reshaping of markets. I actively engage in transdisciplinary research and practice, which is core to the future direction and success of Higher Education. Success in external funding ( 500,000+ as PI/Lead) demonstrates my successful leadership of project managing consortium funded proposals such as the SFI Sustainability Challenge; Erasmus+ funded EULab and my 2016 IRC funded Health Research Futures Lab project.

Dr. Matthew Noone

Matthew Noone is an Australian-Irish ex-indie rocker, improviser, composer, artist-scholar and performer of the 25 stringed Indian sarode. After beginning his musical career as a guitarist and drummer in Brisbane in the mid 90s, Matthew fell in love with the sarode during a trip to India in 2003. He has studied North Indian Classical music for two decades with Sougata Roy Chowdhury in Kolkata and with UK based sarodiya, K. Sridhar. He is the Course Director of the BA in World Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick.

Prof. Patricia Mannix McNamara

Patricia is currently Head of the School of Education in the University of Limerick. She began her career as a post primary school teacher before completing her PhD in the examination of supervisory relationships from a critical theory perspective. Patricia teaches courses leadership, teacher and professionalism, research methods in Ireland and abroad at undergraduate and postgraduate levels

Dr. Helen Phelan

Helen Phelan is Director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland. As Professor of Arts Practice, she is an internationally recognised advocate for the integration of artistic methods into research cultures. She is a multi-award winning Irish Research Council recipient for her work on music and migration, including her current IRC COALESCE award (ADD: The Arts, Data Literacy and Diversity) with Professor of Biomedical Statistics, Ailish Hannigan.

Prof. Deirdre O'Shea

Prof. Deirdre O'Shea, F.Ps.S.I., C.Psychol.Ps.S.I., is Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology in the Department of Work and Employment Studies at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick.
She is a Fellow of the Psychological Society of Ireland and a Chartered work and organisational psychologist. She currently serves as General Secretary and Executive Committee Member of the European Association of Work and; Organizational Psychology

Prof. Donal Ryan

Donal Ryan is the author of three number one bestselling novels and a short story collection. He has won three Irish Book Awards, the EU Prize for Literature and the Guardian First Book Award. His debut novel, The Spinning Heart, was shortlisted for the Impac Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013 and was recently voted Irish Book of the Decade. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages and is on the Leaving Certificate prescribed and comparative lists.

Dr. Sarah Kieran

Dr. Sarah Kieran is Assistant Dean, Executive and Professional Education. in the Kemmy Business School. Prior to joining UL she worked as a Management Consultant in Strategic and Organisational Development, mostly for multinational corporations. This followed ten years in the Telecoms Sector where she held a number of leadership roles in Strategy, CRM and HRM. This experience has led to a wide range of research, consultancy and teaching interests covering areas such as strategic leadership, strategy-as-practice, sensemaking and other discourse-related perspectives of strategy and strategic change. She is also interested in HR Analytics, New Ways of Working, the HR Profession and other such areas which underpin HRM's contribution to organisational performance. She is founder of the KBS WorkFutures Lab and the recipient of a Horizon 2020 Rise award for research into the Digital Transformation of Work.

John Paul (JP) O’Meara

JP is owner and Managing Director of Scooty Initiatives Ltd., a coaching and consulting business, based in Ireland. He is also Senior Vice President (SVP), Investor Relations at Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups, a leader in supermarkets and e-commerce and a company at the forefront of sustainable retailing, based in The Netherlands. He is also Independent Non-Executive Director at Walter Scott & Partners an investment management firm with $ 80 billion assets under management, based in the United Kingdom. A member of the International Advisory Board of the Kemmy Business School in University of Limerick, Ireland, JP also regularly presents and lectures in the areas of Strategy, Leadership, Marketing, Innovation and Corporate Sustainability, and is a mentor/coach on the Wisdom in Action Leadership Experience program launched in 2023.

Karen Boylan

Karen Boylan is an Executive Leadership Coach and owner of KarenB Consulting Ltd. She has more than 30 years of global leadership experience in the MedTech industry in Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and Strategic Projects. Her prior role at Teleflex Medical was Corporate VP Global Strategic Projects, leading Merger and Acquisition integrations, the Global Project Management Office & Project Investment Board, Strategy Council, Crisis Management Committee, and Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy. She was also a leadership coach and mentor at Teleflex. Karen also previously worked at Boston Scientific Corporation at both the Galway and US MA locations. Karen studied at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, and achieved her MBA through the Open University.

Carol O' Reilly

Carol is owner and Manging Director of Redwood and Co. With a background in Marketing, she has over 30 years of Organisational Development experience working in Ireland and with global clients and brands. Carol is a highly skilled and experienced Leadership and Change Strategist, Facilitator and Executive Coach. She is currently completing a Certificate in Team Coaching (ICF Certified) and also holds a Certificate in Inquiry Driven Leadership from MIT. She holds a variety of other certifications including Practitioner in Hogan Assessments, Leadership Coach for LVI (Leadership Versatility Index), INSIGHTS Discovery Practitioner, Working Genius Facilitator and an EQ Practitioner and Assessor (Six Seconds). Carol is also a Board Member of Energy Mentors, a 501(c)(3) public charity, whose aim is to help the next generation and under-served communities shape a shared, sustainable energy future. Carol is delighted to be involved as a mentor/coach on the Wisdom in Action Leadership Experience program since its launch in 2023.