Testimonials

Chief Executive officer (Anon)
"The away day is an excellent journey in re-discovering one's personal assets and liabilities. It's in depth and the focus is on you. The key is on getting to very practical outcomes. After four exhausting hours, you have a much clearer idea what makes you tick, how to better utilise your strength and prevent liabilities from getting in the way of your career. However, this is not just soft stuff. Ciarán sees that you end up with very practical actions that are based on the day's work."

Corporate Finance Consultant
"Many thanks for your time yesterday. I found the Away Day session really interesting - it was enlightening to get your take on the bio and I think we made some good progress on getting to an outcome which I certainly would not have got to without your help."

Corporate Finance Consultant
"I found the away day instructive and illuminating. The Fenton model helps to identify and build on strengths whilst capturing and dealing with areas for improvement. The analysis and results provide a sound basis for developing a business plan to achieve my objectives."

Entrepreneur
“The Away Day had the potential to be not really my 'scene' - a probably overdue time-out (or landing after a long-haul flight, as Ciaran called it) for reflection, analysis and planning in relation to myself as a business. Yet, it was actually an invigorating experience, thanks to a well thought out process and Ciaran's expert guidance and facilitating skills. The structured approach made decision-making seem easier and I felt we made excellent progress towards a first draft career business plan. I am now excited about working that up and then starting to implement it.”

CEO, Retail
"Thank you for a fantastic day. Thought provoking, honest, motivating, helpful and full of insights. The key though was you got me to make the realisations and conclusions!!"

Andy Start
President
"Thank-you for today. You really are impressive in these 1:1 sessions! You cut straight to the core of my strategic challenge!"

Vice President
"Ciaran, I have finally had time to review the "Career Business Plan" summary that you developed based on our discussion at the away day. I think the overview accurately reflects our discussion and confirms my belief that the discussion was a very worthwhile exercise.

In summary I found the "away day" to be very useful. I have found your methodology and insights to be of real value in helping me to develop some clarity about the type of role I should be aiming for and, importantly obviously, that I am suited for. To date I am satisfied that your support is really helping to develop the structure and focus that I need after such a significant time with one company, to help me on my path to finding a new role."

Venetia Howes
Specialist in corporate brand and communications management
Dear Ciaran
Thank you for an excellent morning. You do what you do very well. As a fellow professional I salute you!
Venetia.

Brian Heathcote
Vice President / Managing Director 
"Ciaran
 
Thank you for your help during our day together Monday. I found the process of looking back into your life and career extremely useful to help understand, articulate and document my key strengths and weaknesses. Once these points are very clear it becomes so much easier to decide how and where to target a marketing campaign. I am looking forward to working with you on the next stages and am already forming a view that the more proactive and individual approach you have is considerably more helpful than traditional coaching.

Regards
Brian Heathcote"

Douglas Le Fort
Vice President of Commercial Operations & Business Development, EMEA
"Team Fenton,

................and the good news is I have just signed and accepted the role as VP Commercial Operations & BD, EMEA for Convatec!! and I could not have done it without team Fenton!

Thanks to you all for your tireless persistence and support over the last 7 months; I will look forward to coming up to thank you in person at some stage soon. I know this has ultimately come from someone I have known for some time, but please trust me that I could not have done this without all your support and advise. It has been a very hard emotional road for the whole family and I know I would have taken an easier route, if it was not for having you all behind me. Please accept my profound thanks! I am absolutely delighted!"

Nigel Lambe,
Executive Chairman at Small Batch Coffee Company & Chairman & Chief Executive at WJ King
“At a critical decision point in my career I engaged Ciaran Fenton to help me through a process to define my objectives and then put in place a strategy that led me to securing a senior position with Capita PLC which was my number one target employer.”

Roger Wilson
President
“Through the contacts from Fenton I have had now contacted over 100 head-hunters, recruitment agencies and more recently interim companies and had around 20 or so direct meetings as a result.

Further to that we have made direct approaches to around 10 companies and it seems likely some project work will come from two even if no luck on a permanent appointment initially. Anthony has been very supportive on the advertised roles we have been progressing and has provided specific input on CVs, follow-up communications and interviews which have been very useful. I, beyond all this, have found it really valuable to have the sounding board opportunity and to have a series of people consider other creative options in my search for a new role.”

Professor John Mullins
Associate Professor, Chair - Entrepreneurship at London Business School
“Ciaran has been mentoring graduate student entrepreneurs in the Entrepreneurship Summer School at London Business School for several years. His work is terrific and he gets very good reviews from his mentees.”