EXECUTIVE COACHING www.ceotodaymagazine.com 43 The CEO’s Caddy Conor O’Malley We speak with Conor O’Malley - a Scot with an Irish name, an English accent, who is now an Aussie. He’s also an executive coach who has two grown-up children with his wife Paula. We hear more about how he helps leaders develop themselves, and lead more effectively, in today’s changing landscape of leadership, as well as his views on what coaching is, and is not. and I realised that my story of needing to be a CEO was not serving me well. I stepped away from executive leadership at the age of 51 and decided to take my life in another direction. What that was, I wasn’t sure – I knew it was not in a leadership position and not in consulting. I thought it could be in some form of coaching or mentoring, as that is something that was core to how I tried to lead – so I went to find out about a new world. After many cups of coffee, making new connections, building new relationships and hours of research into the world of coaching, I came across ontological coaching and that is where I took my first leap. In December 2019, after 18 months of learning and ‘going back to school’, I graduated from the world-renowned Newfield institute with a Graduate Diploma in Ontological Coaching and in parallel set out to become a credentialed coach with the International Coaching Federation, the gold standard in Tell us your story and what brought you to coaching? My professional, and in part personal, story up to five years ago was that “unless I am a CEO of a multimillion or even billion $ company then I, and my career, are not a success”. This at times served me well and at other times did not. Now, my purpose is to be a ‘beacon for others’. I do this professionally by being in service to my clients, and personally by being a good human, a good husband, Dad and mate to my family and friends. I left the corporate world of executive supply chain leadership five years ago, having been on executive teams leading supply chain and logistics functions in third-party logistics, retail, wholesale and FMCG in the UK and Australia. I was tired physiologically and mentally
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