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Use Your Edge - To make a difference

About

Use Your Edge was started in 2007 by Séamus Ó Muircheartaigh. Séamus works as a trainer and coach in educational and business contexts. He works extensively with coaches, trainers, head teachers, directors of studies and educators at primary, secondary and tertiary levels as well as leaders and managers in a range of professional business contexts.

He is a certified Trainer in the Applications of NLP in Education, Coaching and Business through Christina Hall, a co-owner of the Society of NLP. See Séamus's NLP Trainer certificate.

Séamus is also also an ICF PCC certified coach and a Coach U and Corporate Coach U certified graduate. See Séamus's ICF PCC certificate.

Séamus designs and delivers a wide variety of innovative courses, programmes and trainings in Coaching and NLP for educational organisations including the Practitioner in the Applications of NLP in Education as well as well providing teacher development and mentoring services.

Séamus also works in business organisations and offers success orientated business skills training solutions tailored to each scenario and context. He is also a licensed facilitator of ‘The Coaching Clinic®’, a two-day programme in core coaching skills for managers and leaders.

Born and educated in Ireland, Séamus started living and working in Spain in 1990. He began providing general and business language training to learners of a wide variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Since 1995 he has also worked as a teacher trainer, developing and training nearly 1,500 teachers on Cambridge University CELTA & DELTA courses, as well as working with a large number of primary and secondary school teachers with a variety of governmental educational organisations.

Séamus started his coach training in 2006 with Coach U, a leading global provider of coach training programs and coaching culture change for organizations since 1992. He has trained in NLP under Owen Fitzpatrick and Brian Colbert at The Irish Institute of NLP, Kate Benson at Meta Education and Christina Hall at NLP Connection.

Séamus became a certified Trainer in the Applications of NLP in Education, Coaching and Business in January 2016 and an International Coaching Federation PCC certified coach in March 2021.

Séamus’ experience in living with another language in another culture gives him a deep insight on how to adapt to and manage change. As an expert in communication, he can see things from a wide range of perspectives and he has a keen sense of what brings people together and what makes them diverse. Séamus’s sensitivity and awareness as a second language trainer, as well as his fluency in the language, allow him to successfully coach and train in Spanish as well as in English.

You can get in touch with Séamus at seamus@useyouredge.com