Ricky Drain

Ricky is an experienced Executive Coach and facilitator and draws on an integrated range of coaching tools including GROW, Gestalt and NLP. He is also a skilled business strategist with a background in Law, Accountancy, and Commerce.

As a qualified Executive Coach Ricky has also been responsible for the design and delivery of leadership development programmes – one of which has been shortlisted for an IITD National Training Award – and has carried out research identifying desirable leadership behaviours, which positively influence the culture of an organisation.

He was involved at a senior level with an international high value manufacturing industry necessitating bespoke customer interaction and exporting. During this time he engaged with senior leaders from China, Europe, Singapore, Korea, Japan, America, Australia, Canada and Thailand. Previously, as director of the local main dealership for a high value international motorcycle brand, Ricky’s focus was on bespoke customer delivery and a strong brand value adhering to stringent franchise requirements and targets.

His experience includes front line high value sales, tailored finance, and retail management.

Ricky specialises in Executive and Leadership Coaching and aims to enable clients to assess their existing capability, increase their own self awareness, and develop the required competence, capability and commitment to ‘be the best version of themselves’ – to enable improved performance and business results, adjust to new organisational realities and become inspirational as leaders. His methods involve appropriate challenge around limiting beliefs and narratives, and encouraging clients to hold themselves accountable in respect of commitments made.

Ricky is Accredited in Emotional Intelligence Profiling and is a member of the Association for Coaching in Ireland.