A Brief Solution Focused Coach

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Services I Provide For My Clients

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1:1 Coaching

Brief Solution Focused Coaching, Team Coaching, Career Coaching

Face to Face Coaching

Career Coaching, Team Coaching, Solution Focused Coaching
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CV Creation

Support in creating tailor made CVs

Tailor Made CVs

With over fourteen years of experience as Job Coach, I have wriiten hundreds of successful CVs. Let me help you!
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Team Build Events

Proud to Partner with Ireland's Premier Team Building Events Company

Teambuild.ie

What better way to observe your preferred styles of working and possible leadership qualities than a Team Building event? As a stand alone or in conjunction with Team Management Systems training
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Interview Preparation

Practice and support to be the very Best Version of you on the day

The Best Version of You

Preparation shows, and for all the right reaons. I can work with you to be prepared to tell your stories that demonstrate your competencies
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Team Management Systems

A globally recognised leader in teamwork science

Team Management Systems

Whether individually with Coaching or as a Team Training and Event, Team Management Systems Profiles will provide you with shared language and insights to truly excel
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Training Workshops

Team building, Solution Focused Team Talk and more

Tailor Made Workshops

Talk with Darren Priest about Team Building, Solution Talk, as well as appreciative enquiry to build on what is already working
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Bringing your organisations a powerful blend of evidence-based team development and accredited coaching expertise

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— About Me

I help individuals access the best version of themselves

I’ve spent the past two decades supporting individuals, teams, and organisations across the community, education, and employment sectors.
My experience includes training staff, guiding long-term jobseekers, supporting young adults, and mentoring professionals.

My approach to coaching is based on the Brief Solution Focused model — a conversational method that’s practical, client-led, and efficient.
It’s not about analysing your past; it’s about creating forward momentum.

My values:
✔️ Respect for your autonomy
✔️ Belief in your capacity for change
✔️ Emphasis on what’s already working

Whether you’re facing a career decision, a transition, or just need to talk things through — I’d be happy to help.

Darren Priest

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Results I have helped create

Hear out what people say about me.
Darren has the wonderful ability to facilitate one on one, and in a way that solves practical issues facing people. He also, has perhaps a more important quality, in that, he unselfishly brings people together to add even more benefit in the wider context. It's called Authentic Leadership Coaching and we need more of that.
Hugh O'Donovan
Hugh O'DonovanCoaching Psychologist & Author
Darren, gave me job coaching assistance to help me find suitable employment. He is a great mentor and he wants everyone who is a client to succeed. He helps you to only take the positives from any Interview that you may have. He has excellent planning and strategies to cope with even the most difficult interview.
John Roche
John RocheIT Specialist
I was forwarded to Darren's service after being made redundant and looking for a new position. Darren a showed a genuine dedication to helping and I get the impression worked tirelessly to get a result. The communication was clear and frequent and the coaching was invaluable. His coaching made me realise what the real priorities in my search were and boosted my confidence.
Barry O'Brien
Barry O'BrienPrincipal Architect OT at Armis
Darren has most definitely got what it takes to be a very effective career coach. His detailed knowledge of what employers want to see and his unstoppable enthusiasm are sure to give even the most nervous job seeker new confidence in the face of what is proving to be a very challenging labour market at the moment. Darren is doing some very valuable work, and it is obvious to anyone who talks to him that he is doing it 200%
Liam Anderson
Liam AndersonRegional Director SE Asia - Omningage
Darren’s warmth, humour, openness and honesty made it an absolute delight to work with him during our time together at the University of East London. His Masters in Occupational Health Psychology combined with his education, knowledge and skills in the Career Coaching arena meant he had a wealth of experience to share and from which I benefitted. He naturally recalls and draws upon theoretical models and I was particularly impressed with his technical ability to work with clients in a solutions focused way. I consider Darren as high potential and I happily recommend him as a coach within the corporate, educational and government environments.
Mags Whelton
Mags WheltonSenior Career Coach
I would highly recommend Darren for his expertise on life coaching as well as encouraging you to find the answers within to seek a new direction in your career. His method of asking questions in a manner to get you to come to your own conclusions about the path you should take is like a lightbulb moment. When I first worked with Darren I wanted to change the direction in my career, and through Darren's strategies and coaching I was able to get clarity on what it was I actually wanted to do. Here I am a couple of years later, teaching people how to prepare safe foods and working with the best in the field of Dysphagia and Swallowing Difficulties. I will now never have to work again because I love what I do, it will never be work. I am forever grateful!
Niamh Condon
Niamh CondonOwner of Dining with Dignity
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CONTRACTING

Establishing a partnership by collaboratively defining what you want to achieve, how you will know you've succeeded, and what Darren's role is in helping you move forward toward their preferred future.

TRUST

You are the expert on your own life and hold the necessary skills and resources to achieve your goals. By asking powerful, future-oriented questions to help you co-construct your own solutions, emphasising your strengths, past successes, and desired future, rather than focusing on the problem itself.
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I have now encountered Elvira Kalmar’s thinking in three different ways: first through Go Beyond: Solution-Focused Pocket Mentor for Work Evolutionists – Book 1, then through Go Beyond: Solution-Focused Organisational Development and Design – Book 2, and most recently through her conversation on the Toward Solutions Podcast. Listening to the podcast felt less like encountering a new set of ideas and more like hearing the

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Why This Podcast Resonated So Deeply With Me

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Mirrors my journey Every so often I come across a podcast that doesn’t simply teach me something new—it helps me understand my own professional journey more clearly. Recently I listened to Toward Solutions Podcast – Episode 13: Neurons, Agency and Going Slow featuring Professor Emeritus Gil Greene in conversation with Deon Singh and Jason Pascoe. It is one of those rare conversations that I found

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Why I Coach the Way I Do

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Following the Questions: My Journey to Brief Solution Focused Coaching There is one question that has quietly guided my professional life for more than twenty years. Why do some people, after experiencing unemployment, illness, disability, workplace stress or major setbacks, rediscover their confidence and move forward, while others—equally capable and often equally supported—remain stuck? I’ve never believed the answer was as simple as intelligence, qualifications

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Go Beyond: Solution-Focused Organisational Development and Design – Book 2 Support the Evolution of Complex Systems by Elvira Kalmar

March 29, 2026 No Comments

 Having read and reviewed this book’s predecessor, I approached Book 2 with both expectancy and, if I am honest, a measure of caution. Book 1 drew me in at the level of interaction—conversations, reframing, practical tools I could immediately use with individuals and teams. Book 2 moves decisively into the territory of Organisational Development and Design. It is the next stage of the journey. And

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