Dominic Mahony
Client Services Director
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Dominic is Client Services Director at Lane4. He draws on his background as an Olympian and his experience with elite performers in business and sport to recognise, uncover and maximise talent in individuals and teams. His operational experience in the Army as well as his leadership role at Lane4 mean that he intuitively understands the pressures and responsibilities that senior leaders in business face, challenging himself everyday at Lane4 to be the most effective leader and coach he can.
1:1 Coaching
Dominic is an EMCC accredited performance coach with extensive experience of coaching at senior executive levels across a number of industries and sectors. These have included executive board directors in large retail, banking, health and aviation industries, mainly focused on individual and team development, leadership and organisational change. He has a particular interest and experience in coaching leaders transitioning into challenging new roles, and is literate in a broad range of business challenges faced by leaders in non specialist roles. Dominic also supervises coaches to ensure coaching quality and best practice and to provide education and support to the internal coach.
Coaching for Performance
Dominic is responsible for the strategic design and implementation of coaching for performance programmes across a range of industries in both the public and private sector. He has helped client companies to successfully develop coaching cultures and internal coaching capability during periods of significant change and business transformation. This has included delivering internal coaching accrediation programmes within many organisations. He is particularly interested in assisting clients in developing their own professionally accredited internal coaching resource.
Leadership and Team Development
Dominic has extensive experience in the field of leadership development, regularly designing and delivering programmes that are a key part of organisational engagement and performance strategies. He challenges senior leaders to participate and share their experiences within the process thereby integrating learning and development with delivery of performance. Through Return on Investment (ROI) measures he has demonstrated how leadership development impacts on organisational engagement and performance in a number of industry sectors. He has worked with teams at all levels of business to help clarify their purpose and engender authentic relationships and maximise complementary team skills. This has included facilitating off-site events, team development programmes and Action Learning for top teams in the aviation, banking and holiday sectors as well as the public sector.
Organisational Change
Through his Masters Degree in Organisation Consulting Dominic has had the opportunity to integrate leading edge theory in Complexity and Dialogue, Appreciative Inquiry and Organisational Change into his consulting practice. He is particularly interested in personal transitions inherent within organisational transformation, and working with key leadership populations to engage with the shadow side of their organisation in order to lead change. These 'moments of leadership truth' have included post-acquisition integration, sustaining performance during hostile takeovers and the loss of key executives at critical moments.
As a coach and consultant Dominic is informed by frameworks from cognitive-behavioural psychology as well as complexity theory, Gestalt practice and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). He is a licensed NLP practitioner and certified in a number of developmental and diagnostic tools.
Work at Lane4
Dominic Mahony draws upon his experience of elite performance sport to specialise in the fields of Leadership Development, Organisational Change and Understanding Team and Individual Behaviour. He is Lane4's Client Services Director and balances his management responsibilities with coaching at Senior Executive level.
Clients include:
Leadership Development
IND
Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust
UK Atomic Energy Authority
Post Office
SEGRO
Bradford & Bingley
Executive Coaching
Deutsche Bank
Royal Mail Group
LGC
Safeway
Sainsbury's
Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust
Enagaging Employees Through Sponsorship
BT
Coca-Cola Enterprises
Coaching for Performance
Microsoft Advertising - >>More Than Programme
Post Office -Inspire Programme
Royal Mail Group - Coaching Accreditation
Organisational Change
LGC
Sainsbury's
UK Atomic Energy Authority
Coca-Cola Enterprises
Bourne Leisure Group
Action Learning Facilitation
Post Office
The Home Office
Sainsbury's
Background
Between 1983 and 1994, Dominic served as an Army Officer in The Life Guards, which included active service in Bosnia and two years as a Leadership Development Instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
Dominic has remained very much involved with Modern Pentathlon since his retirement. He plays a lead role in the implementation of the lottery funded World Class Performance Programme for the sport in the UK and has been Team Manager at three Olympic Games. Dominic has close affiliations with the British Olympic Association and was a member of the team that designed the development programme for Team Managers at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens .
Dominic was an international Modern Pentathlete for 12 years, competed in two Olympic Games and won a team bronze medal in 1988. He also won a World Championship bronze medal in 1987.
Before joining Lane4 full-time in 1998, Dominic worked in major event marketing specialising in media management and accreditation. He is now a member of the Lane4 Board and Director of the Europe Practice. Dominic has a Degree in Economics and Political Science from the London School of Economics, and an MSc in Organisation Consulting from Ashridge Business School/ Middlesex University. He is married with three daughters and keeps horses at his home in Oxfordshire.
