About

Howard O’Donnell, CEO and Lead coach

Background
As the CEO and founder of Live Learning, Howard has spent the last twenty years supporting individuals, teams and international companies to strengthen performance by enabling personal and collective success whilst delivering sustainable business improvements. His interventions are designed to transform and revitalize the world of work.
He partners with organisations that are looking to develop their leaders, team dynamics and performance. He focuses on supporting professionals in complex, transnational cultures and has coached and trained leaders from middle management to C-Suite board level as well as coaching 300 + teams, giving keynote speeches and creating corporate learning events in Europe, Asia and North America.
Howard’s professional background includes being a successful entrepreneur as well as working in the music industry, talent development and hospitality industries.

Unique Style
Renowned for his dynamic, interactive approach, Howard creates safe learning spaces where everyone can express themselves, experiment and evolve. His caring attitude and communicative energy encourage risk-taking and the emergence of new skills. A creative entrepreneur at heart, he quickly forges genuine bonds with participants and stimulates their commitment every step of the way.

Howard’s international expertise
Leadership & managerial transformation
Creativity & intercultural intelligence
He has an in-depth knowledge of the psychology of change, and regularly works in complex multicultural contexts.
An experienced coach, trainer and facilitator, he designs and leads high-level seminars on issues of cohesion, leadership and collective performance.
Based in France, he works internationally in English and French.

Client Feedback
“You are a lighthouse of empathy and have a rare gift and know how to nudge us out of our comfort zone. What you did was remarkable”.
Thorston Osbahr – Director Engineering Magna Seating, Sailauf

“Howard, you are a caring magician of people and teams’ emotions and energies ! You are my first choice for anyone who wants to foster trust and positivity in their team”.
Francois Jacquemart – Airane Group Procurement

We are engaging experiential human first led by values igniting the spark where learning lives professionally playful creatively courageous serious about learning a pleasure to partner with playful in how we deliver your learning wing(wo)men the teammates you didn’t know you needed joining forces to make learning stick !

I had the pleasure of working with Live Learning when they facilitated a leadership workshop during an event I coordinated. Their professionalism, guidance, and fantastic positive energy played a key role in the event's success. Everyone who attended greatly appreciated what they'd learnt thanks to their ability to engage and inspire them. I look forward to working with them again.

I wanted to thank you personally for all your creative ideas, workshops and training sessions. Our executive team really appreciate your input and mediation for the difficult part of our job. Executive Communication and leadership skills are my favorite sessions. See you soon in Hamburg, with an anniversary cake to celebrate partnering together 6 great years.

One of the standout aspects of working with this coach is their emphasis on personal agility. Through his insightful guidance, I have gained a deeper understanding of my strengths and blind spots. This has served as a foundation for personal growth and provided extra depth of insight to help me navigate my first year in a new leadership role. If you are looking to enhance your leadership impact, improve communication skills, and develop executive presence, I highly recommend their services.

You made such a positive impact on my whole team these past two days. I cannot find any good words to thank you enough. You created the right vibe and space for me to be the best possible version of myself. That is super rare in our corporate worlds. The feedback afterwards was unanimously positive saying it was the best ever such team event they’d ever experienced in 30 years.You created the space for all of us to be ourselves, letting go of any worries and really kindle a sense of team. I strongly recommend them if you want to take your team to the next level of collaboration.

Creativity, agility and great moderator skills. With his broad experience and out of the box ideas he consulted the agenda creation, preparing a successful and well perceived event. He facilitated the show and connected really well with the audience. He was able to spontaneously adjust the agenda to ensure a good experience for the audience, sticking to the schedule and delivering meaningful results. It was a pleasure to work with Live Learning and I can warmly recommend their strength as a great Facilitator.

Live Learning led the facilitation of our team booster and we all went home inspired and he made it seem effortless! You were instrumental in making us laugh, reflect and build lasting trust among our leadership group. You constantly influenced and even shaped our group's mood in the best way possible to support our goals, while introducing chunks of knowledge for us to apply and grow all through the year. You are a caring magician of people and teams' emotions and energies ! You are my first choice for anyone who wants to foster trust and fun in their team.

Howard O’Donnell, CEO and Lead coach

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