My Current Project

Empowering the Next Generation of Women Leaders

From Kampala to Kamala! Shaping the Future: Leadership Training for University Women.

Would you like to be part of a movement that is empowering young women to raise their voices and step into their leadership, in order to make a bigger impact in their communities?

I have been given a unique opportunity to facilitate a unique leadership program to empower the next generation of young women leaders in Kampala by being invited to facilitate (on short notice) the  5-week foundational Module 1, as part of a year-long leadership training program called The World Academy for the Future of Women (WAWF.org) for university women across the world. 

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Projects

Current Project Aug / Sept 2024 – Leadership training in Uganda;

5weeks as a World Academy for the Future of Women delivering leadership training to 100 women in university in Kampala, Uganda.

I see an opportunity for the GUAG Leadership Journal

  • March / April 2024
    US Legacy Tour. In the footsteps of my grandfather, who was on a diplomatic mission from the new fledgling republican Government in Ireland, and toured the northeast US in 1922 speaking in support of the Anglo Irish Treaty. He died three months after my dad was born, at aged 37. I continue to be inspired by his pacifist ideals, his love for his country’s language (Gaelic) and culture, and his commitment to literacy and language as access to changing the world for the better.
  • Now featuring on podcasts, radio shows etc. in US promoting my book/story/message.
  • Working on follow-on book Embrace the Edge Life is Bigger When You Say Yes!
  • Presented Workshop ‘The Healing Power of Words’ at the Conference for Global Transformation.
  • Self published my memoire The Courage to Shine – Find Your Voice and Discover the Healing Power of Your Words.
  • Accredited Thought Leader on Wellbeing with All Ireland Business Foundation.
  • Inducted a Fellow of All Ireland Business Foundation (FAIBF) for my contribution to (igniting the spirit of) entrepreneurship in Ireland.
  • We customise the GUAG Leadership Journal for AIBF.
  • Paper (Wake up!!) published in the Journal for the Conference for Global Transformation.
  • Journey of Lights Tour with Roger Hamilton
  • Following in steps (words) of Gandhi (Delhi/India) Buddha (Kathmandu/ Nepal) and Dalai Lama (Lhasa/ Tibet)
  • We launch the GUAG Leadership Journal.
    We pblish 50 Coffee Adventure with Mark Winn
  • Australia to write The Courage To Shine (published 2021)
  • Cambodia to re-visit projects from 2008 – schools / well / Hidden Cambodia Adventure Tours.
  • Get Up and Go Inspiring Contribution Event (Sligo)
  • Wealth Dynamics Masters, Tao, South Africa
  • We launch the GUAG Gratitude Journal
  • Launch Get Up and Go Heroes
  • We co-create the EI Genius Journal with RJH and launch GUAG Genius Journal
  • GUAG with Passion and Purpose Event (Sligo)
  • IGUAGD is an Irish Times Bestseller for 8 weeks
  • Wealth Dynamics Masters, Pilanesberg, South Africa
  • ILAB Bali
  • The GUAG Diary for Busy Women is launched
  • The GUAG Daily Planner for Busy Women
  • GUAG for Your Dreams Event (Sligo)
  • Took early retirement from my medical career.
  • After 20 years putting people to sleep (as an anaesthesiologist), I was now in the entrepreneurial world of ‘waking people up’ to their own power and potential
  • We launch the GUAG Homework Journal for Schools
  • Inaugural Get Up and Go Event – For The Life You Want (Sligo)
  • ILAB in Bali
  • I see the opportunity for our publication to ‘inspire and motivate’ people worldwide
  • The GUAG Diary for Teens and Young People is launched.
  • Launched the Indian Get Up and Go Diary in Mumbai.
  • Officially launched The Irish Get Up and Go Diary
  • Appeared on Dragons Den
  • Presented the Irish Get Up and Go Diary to the US at the Milwaukee Irish Fest
  • Get Up and Go Publications Ltd is established.

  • Fundraising Cycle Action Aid for Cambodia
    Saigon to Angkor Wat (250km through Mekong Delta)

  • Several fundraising projects including an Art (painting) workshop with auction – sold
    my painting for €250 😉 (raised €6,000)

  • Invited to invest, and become a business partner, by Glenda Devlin and co-create the first Irish Get Up and Go Diary for 2007. I said Yes!

  • Fundraising for ChildAid Africa

  • Kilimanjaro (March) Everest Base Camp (November) raising €10,000

  • Visiting local schools, projects to ‘see where the money goes’.

  • Post Grad Fellowship in Toronto, Canada

  • Lots of travelling

  • Returned to Ireland

  • Settling down

  • 6 months in Lusaka, Zambia

  • Lots of travelling

  • My first venture into fundraising – a solo parachute jump for Save The Children with the Red Devils in Aldershot!! $500

  • This was followed by multiple fundraising events (Grand balls) over the years, in hospitals in England, Scotland and Ireland, raising money for necessary hospital equipment. (Any excuse for a good party!!)

  • First Solo Adventure – 6 week road trip Bangkok to Bali.
    I’m hooked on travel

  • Qualified as MD

  • Redundant after 6 months

  • Emigrated to UK.

  • Went to Bophuthatswana as a medical Student

  • Fell in love with Africa.

  • Worked in New York on J1 Student Visa

  • Drove across US

  • Discovered the big wide world out there!!!

Upcoming Event

Elevate Your Leadership

During this 60 minute training you will discover the most effective strategies to clarify your message, amplify your voice and claim your power so you can make the difference you want to make. 

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