Why Choose Elevate Bureau - Best in Class in Ireland

Why Choose The Elevate Bureau - Best in Class in Ireland

At Elevate Bureau, we understand the power of the right experience and expertise to help transform your thinking and team. Our meticulously curated, expert-led panel features industry leaders, innovative thinkers, and captivating storytellers, each here to help you, and your people, learn from their experience allowing you to make something happen.

With our commitment to personalised service and a deep understanding of diverse business needs, we ensure that each specialist that we recommend is not just a choice, but the perfect fit for your learning and development goals.

Choose Elevate Bureau for an experience that lives long beyond the engagement and where every event becomes a landmark discovery that allows you to make something happen.

Questions & Answers - See Who Knows How

How can you bring culture and joy to work and understand what young people want today?

Zainab Boladale

Zainab Boladale is an emerging young national television star who knows what young people want today and can tell you what they really think. Naturally, bringing joy to work is the perfect starting point. But if you are not connecting to the issues that matter to this highly creative generation then it will be hard to succeed. What company does not want to bring joy to their employees and colleagues? What company does not want to know what Zainab thinks, and sees.

In a fast moving technology climate, do you know what is coming and how it will affect your business?

Jordan Casey does. Jordan is a 24 year old technology entrepreneur and software engineer who has been at the forefront of emerging technologies and startup businesses for the last 15 years. Jordan has already spoken at over one hundred conferences across the globe and having founded several digital startups in gaming to cryptocurrency to education to AI, Jordan knows the answers to the questions you have not asked.

Crime intrigues all of us. But crime can teach us how we can better protect ourselves. But how do we know? What does it take to really understand how they think?

The answer is going undercover. Paul Connolly is an investigative journalist with a story more thrilling than the best fictional novel. Paul also knows a lot about communication as a journalist, TV presenter, and media trainer. But Paul is also fearless, and his incredible stories, communications expertise, and media knowledge will educate you, inform you and intrigue you.

We think we understand trauma, but we do not. Yet, we will all experience trauma to a greater or lesser degree, in our lives. And what profession do you think might be at the forefront of dealing with trauma?

Dr. Derek Hrabovsky

Dr. Derek Hrabovsky is an emergency helicopter doctor with a deep interest in the effect of trauma, its management and how to deal with it. Moreover, his story about life as an emergency doctor will surprise you about life at the sharpest end there is.

The most common question asked is “What are they really like?” Our innate curiosity about some of the most famous faces on the planet is a perpetual source of wonderment and who knows more about their real lives?

Paul Kimmage is an enigma. From competing in the Tour De France at the highest level, and competing with remarkable athletes, Paul’s story is a riveting ride. But, like all elite athletes, there comes a time when you need to dismount and find a new path. A chance meeting and opportunity has led Paul to recognition as one of the best journalists and writers of our time. With a little black book overflowing with superstars, Paul will tell you what they are really like and much more.

What is it like to manage a huge team? How do you motivate them to do extreme high risk work? How do you lead in an exceptional crisis?

Dr. Patrick Leahy

This well-known professional knows all about the risks to your business and how criminals think. Do you?

Dr. Patrick Leahy rose to the highest ranks within An Garda Siochana, and managed some of the most dangerous events in recent times. This huge bank of deep expertise and experience will expose your thinking to what you never thought about. His story, his advice, his experience, brings a world into sharp focus, a world 99% of us never know.

Fraud, cybercrime, money laundering, are ever changing, and every business ought to know what’s coming. Do you?

This man does. Pat Lordan is a former head of the Garda’s National Economic Crime Bureau.

Would you like to get inside the mind of a performer? A Chieftains performer who has played the biggest global stages?

Alyth McCormack and Tiona Marshall

Stop right there. The last question is the most important one. How do you prepare? Isn’t that the secret of anything remarkable that looks easy? Meet Alyth McCormack, singer, The Chieftains. Meet Triona Marshall, Harpist, The Chieftains. Now look further and see how they can teach your people what it is like to be ‘Inside the mind of a Performer.’ You never know, maybe you will get to sing too.

What do we really understand by leadership? What is sustainable and courageous leadership? Who is better qualified than this amazing man?

Vice Admiral Mark Mellett

Vice Admiral Mark Mellett has encountered all of the above and much more. Mark is a former Chief of Staff of Ireland’s defence forces and a highly decorated leader. If you want to hear real and relatable stories of leadership, courage, facing danger, and motivating men and women into the darkest corners of the earth then it will be impossible for you to leave his company without many powerful moments you will learn from and reflect on for years to come.

Real collaboration can take you into the world of art and art your colleagues can take home. Want to know how?

John Nolan is one of Ireland’s most successful and recognised contemporary Irish artists. Like everything that ‘looks’ easy, behind that is skill, imagination, and a passion for playing with colour. If you would like all your team(s) to follow John, then you will quickly understand how art can really help your colleagues to work together and maybe take home a masterpiece.

What woman captained a boy’s football team in Tipperary and went on to be the first woman to command an Irish Navy battleship? If inspirational stories of leadership and excellence inspire you then this is someone who will add enormous value to your team

Commander Roberta O’Brien

Commander Roberta O’Brien clearly had natural leadership qualities early in life. In a career that has taken Roberta to many situations, countries, and more, there is so much to learn from listening to her story and understanding how leadership really works in a highly disciplined and intriguing environment.

What is vision? Jonathan Swift said, “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others” Add the word ‘entrepreneur’ and you will see that all successful entrepreneurs could see what you and I did not see, especially this one

Pádraig Ó Céidigh

Pádraig Ó Céidigh is the epitome of what it takes to being an entrepreneur. From teaching to law and from law to single handedly building Aer Arann an extraordinarily successful regional airline. Padraig knows more than most about the pitfalls and opportunities. The highs and the lows and from restructuring business to restructuring ourselves. If you want to know more about the meaning of enterprise, this is a story that will make you think.

Have you asked anyone below the age of 25 when they last bought a newspaper, subscribed to a magazine, or watched the evening news? The answers are not just amusing, they are revealing. The world of information is changing forever. Want to know more?

Conall Ó Móráin

Conall Ó Móráin has been in media from a young age. In his college days, he ran a feisty and engaging campaign to become president of the student’s union but that overshadowed his gossip laden college publication that taught him much about the audience. From broadcasting to media, Conall was an early adopter of podcasts and saw the changes now taking effect. It is today’s norm but not for you if you do not know how, where, and why. If this is a fit for your marketing strategy, then this is the go-to man.

How will policies on Sustainability, Global Citizenship, Racism, Inclusion and Equity, benefit your business?

Emer O’Neill is a TV Presenter and a passionate advocate and expert in global citizenship, racism, inclusion, and diversity. A teacher, Emer has a deep interest in educating companies about the need to create meaningful strategies around her passion for these subjects. Bright, articulate, and on a mission to raise awareness, Emer brings energy, humour and expertise to all of her talks, workshops, and events.

If you sank deep into a heroin addiction, do you think it would be possible to become a neuroscientist?

Dr Brian Pennie

Would you like an incredibly intriguing answer?

Dr. Brian Pennie is a story of diving into the deepest dark space of addiction and rising up to graduate with a PhD in Neuroscience. For years, Brian was in the grip of heroin but in one day, all that was about to change. Today, a hugely successful speaker, Brian has gone full circle to teaching at our foremost universities and sharing his incredible journey. This is a story that will leave an indelible mark on you.

Have you ever been to a restaurant where, despite your angry mood and bitter complaint, the server was calm, patient, professional, confident, and polite? Do you know why, and how?

David Scott is an actor with many successful roles under his belt. David is also an actor teacher and a long-time collaborator with many businesses. And what is it that David does? Of course, it is obvious when you know how. David teaches us not to act, not to pretend, not to keep learning, no. David teaches people how to get into character. That is quite different from being the character. It is a fun training day but behind the fun, there are exceptionally powerful lessons that will serve for life.

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