Entrepreneur. Mother. Changemaker.
Business Consultant.
INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION
Margaret Valette O’Connor is an award-winning Irish businesswoman, Business Consultant, and an Executive Life Coach. She is the former Managing Director of Quigleys, Café, Bakery, Deli – a bakery and coffee shop chain based in the Republic of Ireland which Margaret and her team grew from one location in 1988 to eighteen, employing 195 staff on the back of sales of €9 million.
Margaret stood down from her role at Quigleys in June 2019 and has completed her Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Dublin and is now a part of the UCD Alumni Network.
Margaret can be contacted on: margaret@margaretvalette.com
Helping you to be the best you can be!
If you’re reading this, it means you are hungry for change, hungry to learn and hungry for growth.
Margaret Valette O’Connor has devoted her life to growing her business with her team all whilst raising her four children. She has experienced both the joys and the hardships that running your own business brings and knows all too well that the two often go hand-in-hand.
Margaret’s approach to business is authentic, transparent, up-front and refreshingly candid, avoiding the jargon and cliché’s that can be found in business text books.
Learning from Margaret is like getting a ticket to history! She’s been through the tough challenges, the economic booms, the recessions, changes in legislation and dealt with tricky family issues including divorce. If she’s spent 25 years figuring out how to do something, it means that you don’t have to spend 25 years learning what she’s got. It’s an amazing time to be in business with more resources open to you than ever before so take advantage of all the tools available to you. Learn from them, adapt them to your needs, and make them work for you in your style, your essence.
Think of Margaret as someone who is “outside the forest while you are inside the forest.” Most business problems are not new. They have happened to someone else at some time. Margaret could help move you closer to your goals more quickly by asking new questions and bringing new thinking. Contact Margaret today for advice, consultancy, or business coaching in areas including: Entrepreneurship, Retail, Customer Service, Retail Interior Design, the vital importance of managing yourself and Family Businesses – do’s and don’ts.
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