David O'Connor
Helps senior and commercial teams sharpen the decisions that drive growth, grounded in twenty years in finance.
David O'Connor spent twenty years in finance, the last of them as Global Reporting Director at Rothschild Trust, running growth and transformation across Dublin, London, Sydney, and Zurich. Then he changed the work to developing the leaders who do it.
He is Director of Custom Programmes at the University of St. Gallen Executive School, where he designs and teaches bespoke executive leadership programmes. He is also the founding partner of his own Zurich boutique, Integral Consulting. He holds an Executive Master's in Positive Leadership, Strategy and Transformation, is a certified teacher of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, and is a Fellow of the Irish Chartered Accountants, a reminder of where he began. His two frameworks, The Resilient You and The Transformative Team, have been refined across hundreds of workshops and more than a thousand hours of executive coaching. Clients meet a manner that is direct and empathetic at once. His coaching pairs naturally with a 100Facets read of a team, bringing the evidence it surfaces together with his own human-first delivery. Over his career he has worked with clients such as UNICEF, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, UBS, Vontobel, Siemens, Vorwerk, and Metrohm.
What David helps with
David works with senior leaders and their teams, often in large, complex organisations. His Resilient You work helps a leader hold up under pressure, by building personal resilience and self-leadership on neuroscience-based foundations. His Transformative Team work helps a team work better together, by treating it as a living system and improving how it decides and collaborates. And because he measures cultural change rather than just claiming it, he can show an organisation that a transformation actually happened. His coaching meets the read of a team, so the human view and the evidence point the same way.