Simon brings over 30 years’ senior leadership experience within global manufacturing organisations, offering extensive practical insight into the realities, challenges and complexities faced by today’s business leaders. Throughout his career, he has led large-scale operational, supply chain and business transformation initiatives, building a reputation for developing high-performing teams, solving complex challenges and delivering sustainable results.

He specialises in leadership coaching, team development, conflict resolution and organisational transformation. As a qualified coach and accredited mediator, he helps individuals, leaders and teams unlock their potential, navigate change and overcome the barriers that can limit performance. His approach encourages people to move from certainty to curiosity, creating the conditions for better understanding, stronger decision-making and meaningful growth.

Having experienced the transformational impact of coaching first-hand, he is passionate about helping others gain clarity, confidence and purpose in their leadership journeys. He brings significant mediation expertise, supporting organisations to resolve interpersonal, strategic and industrial relations challenges while preserving important relationships and enabling positive outcomes.

Peter brings over 25 years’ commercial leadership experience across FMCG, B2B and not-for-profit sectors, with a strong track record in sales leadership, capability development and people-focused performance improvement. Throughout his career, he has gained extensive experience leading commercial teams, building customer relationships and helping organisations achieve sustainable growth.

A qualified ICF Coach (International Coaching Federation) and ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management) Online Master Trainer, he combines professional coaching expertise with deep commercial experience to help individuals and teams unlock their potential. His warm, compassionate and engaging style creates an environment where people feel supported, challenged and empowered to grow.

He specialises in sales effectiveness, leadership development, coaching and commercial capability. He brings practical insight from decades spent operating in demanding business environments, helping teams translate learning into action and build the confidence, skills and behaviours required for success.

Peter combines a genuine passion for people with a practical understanding of what it takes to deliver results in complex commercial environments.

Marc brings 24 years’ FMCG commercial experience, having built a successful career in sales leadership, customer management and negotiation. His final corporate role was Head of On Trade for Wadworth & Co, the renowned brewer behind 6X beer, where he developed deep expertise in customer relationships, commercial strategy and delivering growth in competitive markets.

Over the past nine years, he has applied his commercial experience across a wide range of sectors including food, metals, publishing, cosmetics, fitness and drinks. He works with organisations to strengthen sales effectiveness, improve negotiation capability and unlock greater value from customer partnerships. His broad sector experience enables him to quickly understand different business challenges and translate commercial principles into practical action.

Marc specialises in negotiation, sales performance and value creation. He combines structured commercial thinking with a strong focus on relationships, helping teams move beyond price-based discussions and adopt a total value approach that benefits both organisations and their customers. He has supported clients as a retained negotiation expert, helping them secure significant new business opportunities by applying a value-led approach and focusing on the behaviours, preparation and thinking required for successful outcomes. He brings a distinctive blend of commercial discipline, energy and practical experience to every engagement.

Malachy has over 20 years’ experience in the highly competitive grocery retail sector. Having held senior commercial leadership positions across some of the industry’s most demanding environments, he brings deep expertise in customer strategy, negotiation, category management and commercial capability development.

His career spans leading retailers including M&S, Dunnes Stores, Superquinn, SPAR, Aldi Ireland and Tesco Ireland. As Buying & Marketing Director at Aldi Ireland and later Fresh Foods Commercial Category Director at Tesco Ireland, he gained first-hand experience of the challenges facing retailers, suppliers and commercial teams operating in fast-paced, customer-driven markets.

Drawing on his retail leadership journey, he helps organisations strengthen commercial performance by combining strategic thinking with practical tools and behaviours. He specialises in negotiation, supplier and buyer relationships, commercial strategy and capability building, helping teams understand how to create better outcomes through stronger collaboration, sharper insight and customer-focused decision making.

Where clinical excellence meets commercial outcomes, Louise energises professionals to turn expertise into exceptional customer experiences, confident conversations and meaningful business impact.

A Registered Veterinary Nurse, qualified executive coach and commercial learning specialist, her background gives her an unusually deep understanding of the patient pathway and the critical moments where customer needs, professional expertise, recommendations and commercial outcomes intersect.

Working across European and Global markets, she has delivered experiential trainings, consultative selling champion-led capability and sales effectiveness programmes for multinational organisations. She supports and guides people build the confidence to apply new behaviours where they matter most, creating meaningful learning that lasts and translating strategy into measurable operational performance.

Curious, commercially minded and highly collaborative, Louise combines coaching with practical business insight to enable organisations strengthen customer experience, embed lasting behaviour change and unlock the full potential of their people.

Jonathan is a founding partner of Uspire and brings over 30 years’ international business experience across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia Pacific. A Chartered Systems Engineer by profession, Jonathan has held senior roles within global food and pharmaceutical organisations, combining technical expertise with deep commercial insight to help businesses solve complex challenges and deliver sustainable growth.

Jonathan specialises in commercial capability, negotiation strategy and behavioural change, helping teams understand the thinking, behaviours and preparation required to achieve better outcomes. He works with commercial teams to transform negotiation from a transactional process into a structured, strategic discipline, creating robust negotiation plans that deliver value for both organisations and their customers.

With 10 years’ experience leading grocery and wholesaler account negotiations across the UK and Ireland, Jonathan brings first-hand understanding of the challenges facing commercial teams when managing complex customer relationships. His approach combines practical experience, analytical thinking and a deep understanding of procurement, supply chain and commercial dynamics.

An internationally experienced business director, Jonathan is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (MCIPS), a qualified engineer (MIET) and holds an MBA in General Business from Henley Management College. Throughout his career, he has worked with and developed a range of international FMCG businesses, and now applies this experience through the companies he has founded, co-founded and supported as a board member.