About
Who is Phillip
Phillip Matthews combines a track record of leadership and achievement across a wide range of industries, education and sport, with a sincere interest in helping others to grow and achieve their business and personal ambitions and objectives.
Phillip provides executive coaching, team coaching and leadership development to clients in a variety of industries.
Early Career & Accomplishments
A former captain of Ireland’s national rugby team, British & Irish Lion and captain of the Barbarian’s, Phillip spent 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry before heading up UCD Smurfit Business School’s Executive Education function followed by his six-year tenure as President and CEO of National College of Ireland. In 2017 he established his leadership consultancy practice.
Clients
Phillip’s clients span a wide range of industries including multinational corporations (MNC) Financial Services, MNC High-tech/Electronics, MNC Manufacturing, MNC Social Media, Professional Services, Public Sector, MNC Pharmaceuticals, Construction, Energy & Utilities and MNC FMCG. Across these sectors, Phillip has worked with CarTrawler, Pfizer, PEI, CubicTelecom, Suntory GB & Ireland, Plantronics, Irish Life, Cpl, Jackson Square Aviation, Orix Aviation, Dale Farm, Twitter, MSD, GSK, Glen Dimplex, Flynn, PTSB, MSD, Legal & General, Energia, Uniphar, FexCo, VW Financial Services, VLE and SSE Airtricity among others.
Practice & Experience
Phillip is also an Associate Faculty member of the Irish Management Institute (IMI) where he programme directs their flagship Professional Diploma in Leadership. Phillip holds a BSc and a PhD in Zoology and he is a qualified Executive Coach having completed UCD Smurfit’s Diploma in Executive Coaching and Diploma in Advanced Executive Coaching, both of which are recognised by the EMCC.
He is also a Senior Partner of Dynamic Partners (www.dynamicpartners.ie) a group of like-minded associates with years of experience in the design and delivery of transformational leadership programmes.
He has completed Novum PB Coaching & David Clutterbuck’s Team Coaching Programme as well as Team Coaching International’s (TCI) Masterclass Series. He is certified for the use of the TCI Team Diagnostic™, RocheMartin’s ECR360 Emotional Capital Report and Table Group’s Working Genius assessment report.