I have worked with across many different sectors to support clients with Product Management, Strategic Marketing and Leadership Professional Development.
Corporate Engagements
Trinity College Dublin
I am an adjunct teaching fellow and academic programme director with Trinity Business School.
I have previously worked as a Business Mentor on the Trinity International Growth Programme – sponsored by the British & Irish Chamber of Commerce and Bank of Ireland.
I also co-designed the Trinity College, Future Factory Innovation Programme with Dublin Airport and am currently the Programme Director. This is a fantastic initiative that supports people from across Dublin Airport to think and act creatively and drive projects that reduce opex for daa or drive revenue. Check out some of this great work in this short video:
I am also currently a High Performing Team Coach on the Trinity College Executive MBA.
Enterprise Ireland – Strategic Marketing Review
I am a member of Enterprise Ireland’s Strategic Marketing Review Panel. In this role, I work with Enterprise Ireland’s clients to identify and address persistent challenges and untapped opportunities that are impacting on the business’s rate of international sales growth. I have been selected to work with multiple clients each year since joining the panel in 2017. In this podcast I chat with Enterprise Ireland about my understanding of and experience of working with clients in Strategic Marketing.
You can also listen to the experiences of some of EI clients who have undertaken an SMR.
Product Management – Technology Ireland
IntegratedThinking was selected to provide a strategic programme for the Technology Ireland called Scala CEO. As part of the programme, I worked with CEOs and leadership teams of indigenous technology companies, including startups, SMEs and larger enterprises. I helped them to discover the key strategic benefits of applying a Product Management discipline across their organisation. The programme delivered a two day workshop for CEOs in technology companies and two separate “in-house” mentoring sessions with each company. As a result of this hands-on support, companies felt empowered to apply tools and methodologies and adopt a strategic rather than tactical approach to product investment decisions. Check out the some of the client testimonials
Women ReBOOT
I was Programme Director for Technology Ireland’s Women ReBOOT programme. This programme was specifically designed to build a bridge between highly skilled women and technology employers who are actively trying to address a skills gap in the sector. The programme offered upskilling, coaching, mentoring, networking opportunities and work placements to the female participants seeking to return to the sector.
Product Management Testimonials
Criona Turley, CEO, Capella
“Siobhan is an experienced professional with a deep knowledge of strategic marketing. We were looking for a consultant who understood the world of technology scale-ups, and we found exactly what we needed in Siobhan. As well as the theory behind successful marketing and product fit, Siobhan brought a practical, commercial attitude which moved Capella forward both tactically and strategically. As we continue to grow across the Irish market and into the US, Siobhan is our North Star when it comes to strategic market consultancy.”
Rob Fox, CEO, Supplyo
“As part of a recent exercise to rebrand our business, we worked with Siobhan to maximise the success of our relaunch in 2023. Siobhan guided us through an assessment and prioritisation of our market opportunities in Ireland and Europe. She helped us to think more clearly about how we targeted market opportunity more effectively through our sales and marketing activities. As a result, we now have a clear strategic plan to drive our business in the short to medium term and to target the kinds of opportunities that are very aligned with our strategic goals”
Tom Scanlon, Director of Sales & Marketing, Farran Technology
“Farran found the SMR exercise to be very useful in finding where/how we could improve our marketing activities. It helped us to identify the gaps/weaknesses in our existing marketing structures, and gave us excellent marketing tools to help us have a better focus/direction on what was required going forward.
In particular we found the Market Segmentation and the Value Proposition activities very helpful, by concentrating our thoughts and getting to understand in more detail our various customer segments and our offerings to these segments.
In the Value Proposition exercise, we identified the perceived pains and gains of the customer and then concentrated on what our products offered as potential pain relievers and gain creators. Overall, it was a hugely worthwhile exercise, and when you review past successes, you can use the Value Prop canvas to investigate how we could use these wins to help win new customers. Using the insights gained during the SMR, Farran now have a much more focused and strategic plan for our marketing activities in the future.”
Joe Lynch, Head of Marketing & Sales, IMEC Technologies
“We completed an SMR with Siobhan, who led us through the process of analyzing each of the market segments for our products, identifying those segments where success was most likely and worthwhile. Siobhan made us question previously made assumptions about the markets we serve, making us think strategically about our business which lead to the generation of our 5 year transformation plan. I would highly recommend Siobhan.”
Stephen Nolan, Managing Director, Nutritics
“Nutritics undertook a Strategic Marketing Review with EI to challenge both our existing sales and marketing processes and to ensure that the company was ideally positioned to continue to scale. We selected to work with Siobhan (IntegratedThinking) as the consultant on this initiative.
The process was of huge benefit to the company. Siobhan ensured our methodologies were robustly reviewed and challenged, which allowed us to optimise existing best practice techniques alongside introducing new and innovative methodologies to improve our sales and marketing process. We would strongly recommend this programme and Siobhan to any company that is scaling internationally.”
Sean Lloyd, Gaelite Signs
“After selecting Siobhan for our Strategic Marketing Review with Enterprise Ireland we quickly became very comfortable with the process and how the review was structured – Siobhan was particularly strong at guiding us through the phases where we became ‘less comfortable’ with our own position – we were able to see ‘outside in’ on our own business and were left with a really positive outcome and feeling amongst our leadership team. Highly recommended and actually an enjoyable experience.”
Emma Walsh, COO FoodCloud
“Siobhan’s workshops have been incredibly valuable in informing our product roadmap and helping us to make business decisions on development internally. Siobhan also helped us to understand and develop clarity around our business case and value proposition. I would highly recommend Siobhan!”
Avril Crowley, Head of Product Marketing and Management, Sage Technologies
“Working with Integrated Thinking has been hugely beneficial to us. We now have a best-in-class Product Management function in place and are well-positioned to drive future business growth by ensuring the customer is at the heart of every product decision we make.”
Maire Hunt, Network Manager, ISA Software Skillnet
“The feedback from companies on the ISA Scala CEO programme was excellent – due mainly to Siobhan’s expertise and knowledge. The evidence of immediate business impacts on the companies involved validates the impact of such a programme and its importance to growing companies in the software sector. We have a dearth of experienced consultants and trainers in Product Management in Ireland who bring the combination of leadership of a product management function with best practice models that IntegratedThinking provides. IntegratedThinking has therefore filled a vital gap in support for software companies in Ireland.”
Des O’Mahony, CEO Bookassist
“IntegratedThinking strongly informed our strategic discussions for growth going into 2015. The structure of the CEO focused course and the thinking behind it has very much helped me in my high-level discussions with investors. Highly recommended”
John Murphy, CEO DeCare Systems Ireland
“Our sessions with IntegratedThinking have instilled our strong believe that if you understand your customers and your market then you can build products that sell themselves. The team here in DSI really enjoyed the inhouse product management sessions of Scala CEO and are continuing to apply the practices learned.”
Grainne Barry, Director, Salaso
“Having worked with IntegratedThinking we now have a much stronger link between commercial strategy and product delivery. We have a clearer understanding of the key benefits that product management can bring to a startup organization”
Jim Cuddy – Business Development Consultant at CIRCA GROUP Europe Limited
“Siobhan is an acknowledged expert and leader in Product Management. She would be regarded as an evangelist for Product Management thinking in IT companies. I’m happy to recommend her as a highly effective consultant.”
Bill Walsh – CEO @ Aspire
“Working with Siobhan enabled us to really understand the market we are addressing and the problems and needs of our customers – we learned to recognize the huge benefits that can be achieved from an “outside in” approach to product management. As a result, we have strengthened our value proposition by using customer discovery and validation techniques and applying practical tools that now enable us to manage our portfolio of projects.
We are now confident that we can focus our resources on the key projects enabling us to scale our business. Siobhan embedded herself for 2 days a week in the organization, working alongside our existing Product Manager, CTO and Head of Services to mentor and support them on this journey.
This was hugely beneficial, allowing her to immerse herself in our culture and help us to recognize not just where we needed to make change but to acknowledge the real strengths of our company. Our team now feel empowered to take the next steps on our journey with a clearer view of the benefits that a product management discipline can bring and armed with the tools necessary to make it effective at this stage of our growth.”
Joe Hogan – CTO/Founder @ Openet
“As the founder and CTO of Openet I have seen several attempts at product management in the company over our first 8 years of operations but it was only when Siobhan joined that we started to make solid progress.
Siobhan totally transformed Product Management at Openet and established it as a major function in the company, at a period in our history which was critical for us. We were expanding engineering from 50 people to 250 people, had major new business partnerships selling existing products, which were starting to bear fruit and we needed to be able to meet multi-year commitments to these partnerships in rolling predictable releases and also launch new products which were sufficiently feature rich to allow Openet to continue to expand its horizons.
While this was happening, we were also transforming engineering from waterfall to agile development. With all this change organisationally, without Siobhan’s leadership of Product Management during this time, we would have certainly struggled.
Siobhan’s clear vision on the role of Product Management within a software company, and her leadership style in building her team was well respected by both her team and at the leadership team at Openet. Other Irish and international software companies will hopefully not wait as long as we did to firmly establish Product Management and would benefit from her invaluable experience . I have no hesitation in recommending her. “
Edel Creely – Managing Director @ Trilogy Technologies and Chair of the Irish Software Association
“Siobhan’s contribution to the ISA Product Management Working Group was highly significant due to the depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise she carries in the area of Product Management. She provided a huge commitment to the group through her contributions to the development of the DIT Product Management Diploma, the launch of Product Camp Dublin, speaking at events and ultimately taking the position of Chair of the Working Group. Throughout my workings with Siobhan she has displayed an excellent range of Communication skills and has shown true Leadership ability and drive in her approach.”
Alan McDonald – Training and Development Manager @ Apple
“I have enormous respect for Siobhan, she’s a very motivating person to be around. She is an extremely smart, capable, confident and charismatic professional. She brings out the best in people and groups that work with her.”
Shane O’Flynn – GVP Product and Solution Management @ Openet
“As VP of Product Management Siobhan played a key role in transforming Openet with respect to our attitude and approach to managing products. She worked tirelessly and successfully to promote the discipline across the whole organisation, and hand in hand with Engineering took the brave step of moving us from Waterfall to Agile design and development.
She built a really solid base from which the group can further evolve as Openet continues to grow. She was a great loss to the team and I wish her every success with Integrated Thinking, her new endeavour.”
Michael O’Sullivan – GVP Engineering @ Openet
“During her time in Openet, Siobhan built up and transformed the product management function to an industry-based best practice organisation. She is very energetic, diligent and a strong leader. Excellent communication skills enable her to be highly effective both with customers and colleagues. I would have no hesitation recommending Siobhan. Top calibre.”
Paul Saunders – VP of Sales, EMEA @ Openet
“I have worked with Siobhan for 4 years in my capacity of VP of Sales EMEA and before that Global Alliances at Openet. She has always been a go-to person, willing to go the extra mile to support the needs of a demanding sales organisation.
Siobhan has a great ability to balance a technical knowledge with a deep awareness and appreciation of the needs of both existing and prospect customers. Her ability to translate technical need to business relevance and vis versus has been evident throughout the time I worked alongside her.
Siobhan’s natural ability to build relationships both internally and with the customer is also a key attribute enabling her to establish trust with the customer and secure the support of the wider internal team. Siobhan is a huge asset to any company looking for a highly experienced, competent technology professional.”
Mark Perrem – Operations Director @ Telecom Asset Management
“Siobhan made a huge difference when she took over the engineering function at Eicon, improving standards, quality and structure. She also contributed her experience and energy to the overall management of the business unit, supporting its growth in size and responsibilities and its ultimate success.
Siobhan is passionate, sets high standards and is an excellent leader and communicator. She combines a high technical competence with business understanding and excellent soft skills and is a pleasure to work with. I would recommend Siobhan to any organisation.”
Contact me @ siobhan@integratedthinking.ie for more details on how I can support you to drive high performing product and strategic marketing teams.