PERFORMANCE NERDS - Key Persons

Since childhood, Brian has been fascinated by people and ferociously curious about why we do what we do, about what makes us tick. For more than 25 years Brian has been grappling with the issues of leadership, being human and developing performance. Through a career in industries as diverse as logistics, construction, commodity brokerage and tropical agribusiness, across the globe, he has learned and experienced a lot. Based on a belief that leadership is, too often, broken, he is working with leaders to create high performance cultures that are transparent, accountable and share a common language from top to bottom. Brian has come a long way since starting his first business at 18 while in college. This experience in business, in sport and in life are integral to how he works. While he started out studying accountancy, Brian is now a certified coach, a trainer, a master trainer, certified in a variety of psychometric tools, neurolinguistics (to master trainer level) and behaviours. Since 2011 his sole professional focus has been developing performance and how to lead it well. For fun, Brian loves to climb big mountains, adventure travel and spending time with his family.

John's passion for people and human excellence shines through in everything he does. He is deeply curious and brings huge energy and enthusiasm to his work. As co-founder of Performance Nerds he gets to work with many amazing organisations and people across Ireland and the UK. He is an accredited executive coach, with a QQI Diploma as well as an Advanced Diploma in Coaching with Neuroscience. John is accredited by the International Coach Federation (PCC) who are the global standard bearers in coaching and is a WIN PRO Coach with the World Association of Coaching with Neuroscience (WACN). John is an accredited trainer and practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming from John Grinder. John graduated from Limerick Institute of Technology with a BA in business. Post college he spent 10 years in corporate, progressing to senior sales positions with the Smurfit Group and Symantec Corporation. John has spent the last 11 years immersed in all areas of human performance and development. In his spare time John is an ultra-endurance runner.