Welcome


Patrick Gilhooly offers you practical, results oriented solutions to help you develop and grow your business primarily by focusing on three key areas - Business Improvements, Developing People, Taking Opportunities.

My own experience plus access to a team of seasoned executives will provide you with the support needed to meet your business challenges.

Business Improvements

Some of the critical areas in which we can contribute to deliver improvement in your businesses:

  • Strategic Planning - putting the right plan together, communicating and ensuring effective deployment throughout the organisation
  • Business Process Improvement - review and benchmark your processes, simplify and ensure optimum use of technology to reduce your cost of doing business
  • Cost Reduction and productivity improvement - evaluation of your cost structure, identification and implementation of opportunities and introduction of proven cost and productivity improvement programmes
  • Restructuring - support in all areas from identification of opportunities, communications internally and externally, negotiations, implementation and readiness preparedness of the new organisation

Developing People

Your success will only be achieved through competent and motivated employees. In addition to your focus on people, the following particular expertise will be available:


  • Mentoring and leadership coaching-practical , experienced advice and feedback
  • Training and Development - ensuring that the right plan is in place to develop and empower your people
  • Communications-clear, regular and effective two way communications is essential to the organisation's health and development in this fast moving and transparent world
  • Succession Planning - reviewing the organisation both to ensure talent is identified/developed and to ensure smooth succession on departure of key personnel
  • Interim Management - providing on site experienced support in appropriate positions as required
  • Union Negotiations - developing and implementation of negotiating strategies to optimise results for the business

Taking Opportunities

We can bring critical experience to enable you to examine the internal and external environment for a game changer, for example:


  • Operations improvements - unlocking the added value potential in operations, manufacturing and sourcing
  • Strategies to ensure your plans/strategies are bought into by Corporate headquarters
  • Growing your business - looking at all market opportunities including globalisation
  • Company Start-ups and expansions - feasibility studies and advice
  • Programme Health Checks - critical and impartial review of real status of your programmes and readiness to advance