Dr. Eleanor O’Sullivan

Professional Career and Life Coach

Who is Eleanor?

Dr Eleanor O’Sullivan is an experienced Professional Career and Life Coach based in Cork, Ireland. She is passionate about empowering people to find balance and fulfilment in their professional and personal lives. Eleanor has extensive experience in coaching and mentoring, specializing in career coaching, change management, non-financial retirement planning and coaching for chronic illness. She loves working with people who want to explore and identify what really matters in their lives and to take positive, realistic steps to achieve those choices.

After 40 years providing expert clinical care to complex patients in a major university hospital, she understands of need for clarity around your goals, values and priorities, the importance of having a clear direction, effective communication, conflict management and team-work. She also appreciates the personal impact of juggling the complex, competing demands of career and family life.

From her extensive work in cancer and palliative care, she understands the challenges faced by those living with chronic illness, the importance of effective self-management strategies and of finding realistic, practical, positive ways to live life to the fullest, within the situation in which you find yourself. She also understands the support needed by family/carers to help them stay emotionally strong and effective in their caring role.

Eleanor Can Help You With...

✅ Career Coaching:

• Clarify work-life goals, values and priorities, develop realistic action plans

• Develop or diversify your career and spend more time doing what you really love

• Get the right work done, reduce overwhelm and prevent burnout

• Improve time management, avoid self-sabotage and achieve work/life harmony

• Boost your self-confidence, overcome imposter syndrome and the ‘Monday Blues’

• Explore the implications of reduced hours, career breaks and early retirement

✅ Living Well with Chronic Illness Coaching:

• Find a supportive, safe space for those living with a serious illness to speak freely

• Feel seen, heard and validated by an experienced medic with 40 years clinical practice

• Explore the emotional aspects of illness and its impact on daily life, for all involved

• Identify what lies within your control, and work on accepting what we cannot control

• Feel empowered, set realistic goals to add meaning, structure, purpose and joy to life

• Enhance quality of life, avoid self-sabotage, manage conflict, improve well-being

• Explore options for meaningful human interaction, build legacy, make a difference

✅ Mid-Life MOT and Retirement Coaching:

• Explore whether your current career/role meets your future goals, values and needs

• Examine signals for change: longings, discontents, energy/fulfilment balance

• Plan your next chapter, design a life full of purpose, joy and interesting possibilities

• Ditch the old version of retirement and review all options for thriving in this phase

• Relish doing What YOU want, after decades of taking care of everyone else

• Understand what kind of lifestyle you’d like to have and why it’s important to you

• Live your ‘One wild and precious life’ to the full, making every day matter

✅ Personal Development Coaching:

• Discover the Real You, overcome limiting beliefs and unlock your full potential

• Set and achieve healthy life-style goals, improve well-being and live life to the full

• Navigate critical decisions, significant life changes and health challenges

• Establish healthy boundaries, improve communication, manage stress and thrive

• Find a safe space to explore options for managing difficult relationships

Eleanor’s Qualifications Include 👇🏼

• Certified Professional Coaching, ACT affiliated, ICF membership

• Positive Intelligence training and Saboteur Assessment

• Courageous Coaching® Certified Coach

• HSE Trained Tutor: Behavioural Change, MECC & Self-Management

• BDS, MSc. Palliative Care, MA in Higher Ed., PhD, FFD, RCSI

Eleanor is the Right Choice for You if:

• You want a fresh perspective and greater clarity on your future direction, wondering is there more to life than you are experiencing right now

• You are feeling limited or overwhelmed by serious illness and want to speak with someone who really understands to find a better way forward

• You are feeling constrained or overwhelmed by your current role, looking to develop or diversify your career pathway

• You’re considering retirement, want to review options, explore opportunities for the next chapter and avoid potential pitfalls

• You feel like your time is out of control, need to set healthy boundaries, enhance your work/life balance and time management skills

• You want to improve your confidence, communication, stress management, well-being and resilience, and really live life to the full

If any of these resonate with you, don’t let the fear of the unknown hold you back. Why not schedule a free discovery call with me to discuss your unique needs and concerns? Together we can create the right supports and strategies to help you clarify and achieve your professional and personal goals.

It is recommended that you schedule a free consultation with Eleanor before booking sessions.