John Guinan

Human Resource Consultant - CEO ConsultingTools Ireland

Specialist HR Consultant, previously HR Director for the Bank of Ireland.

John is a graduate of University College Dublin where he studied Commerce at degree and Psychology at post graduate level. His HR career extended over 30 years in the HR Function with Bank of Ireland. During his time in Human Resources, he has had experience and management responsibility for Training, Selection, Assessment, Recruitment, Remuneration, Succession Planning, Leadership Development, Internal Communications, Strategic HR Planning and as an HR Manager.

John has a particular interest in the Strategic positioning of HR and has worked to develop the future model of HR for a number of major organisations built around Shared Services, Centres of Excellence and the Business Partner model.

John has lectured on various HR topics in both Ireland and abroad, to the CIPD Annual Conference in Ireland, the International HR Conference in Dubai and the recent IHRM Conference in University of Limerick. He is a Fellow of CIPD and lectures on HR at the Irish Management Institute and is a member of the faculty of Management Centre Europe in Brussels.

He has now set up his own HR Consultancy Company specialising in Management & Team Development, Leadership Development, Employee Relations, HR Strategy, Performance Management, Assessment & Selection, Employee Engagement and Executive Coaching & Mentoring.