In 2017, I founded de Burgo. With over three decades professional experience, I am now supporting award-winning clients to make positive change and formulate goals that align with long-term learning and development aims as well as bringing clarity to the priorities, strategies and opportunities within their role to optimise performance and engagement. Combining legal and commercial expertise with insights from change management, psychology, and neuroscience, I offer clients a holistic approach to personal growth. By supporting clients to understand the behaviours that shape our thoughts and actions, we unlock potential and create positive, sustainable change in their careers and lives. 

I am also a Change Management specialist and strategic advisor with a background in law, international relations, leadership development, technology and consulting. My clients include lawyers, senior executives and professionals in a range of areas including banking & finance, legal, technology and public sectors. 

Now based in Ireland, I previously worked in the EU, UK, US and APAC regions as a lawyer, senior executive and consultant. This included 10 years at a Global Elite law firm building and leading large teams of lawyers and legal technologists in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Shanghai and Sydney. I held senior leadership and client consulting roles at both boutique and large legal consulting firms - advising a number of world’s largest law firms and most complex corporate legal teams in a range of sectors from banking to fashion. 

I am currently an Advisory Board Member at Pickering Pearce (Legal Consulting). 

Professional

Founder & Director | de Burgo Advisory Limited, Ireland (since Nov 2017) 

Advisory Board Member | Pickering Pearce, London, UK (since Jul 2023) 

Managing Director & Industry Expert | Morae Global, London, UK (Jul 2020 - Jun 2022)  

Associate Director | Janders Dean Consulting, London, UK (Nov 2017 - Jul 2020) 

Director of Alternative Legal Services | Herbert Smith Freehills, Australia & APAC (Mar 2008 - Dec 2018) 

Project Manager | Potter Farrelly & Associates, Melbourne, Australia (Aug 2006 - Mar 2008) 

Professional Trainee | Center for Equal Justice, New Orleans, USA (Oct 2005 - Apr 2006) 

Operations Manager | Office for Public Management (OPM), London, UK (Dec 2001 - Oct 2005) 

Project Manager International Organisations | EXPO 2000 Hannover, Germany (Jun 1995 - Dec 2000)  

Qualifications

UCD Professional Academy | Change Management Diploma

Irish Lifecoach Institute | Advanced Diploma in Personal & Business Coaching

Diploma in Personal & Business Coaching

(QQI Level 6 (Distinction) / ICF ACSTH accredited)

Certificate in Career Coaching

Certificate in Relationship Coaching

Certificate in Addiction Coaching

Legal Practice Board of Western Australia | Practising Certificate Issued (Jun 2010)

The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn | Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Jul 2005)

Bar Vocational Course | BPP Law School, London (Sep 2003 - Jun 2005)

Postgraduate Diploma in Law | BPP Law School, London (Sep 2001 - Jun 2003)

Master of Arts German - M.A. (Hons) | University College Dublin (Oct 1993 - Aug 1994)

Bachelor of Arts French & German – B.A. (Hons) | University College Dublin (Oct 1988 - Aug 1992)