Maria Ireland
Strategic Business Consultant 360ºI am a Business Consultant with Values and 30 years of succesful management experience, exceeding targets.
My Story
I am an economist, MBA Executive of BI Handelshoyskole, Oslo. I speak 6 languages and am certified as Coach x Values and Leader x Values in 2018 (@Simon Dolan). From 2004 my base is Gerona, Spain.
I dedicate my knowledge and experience in multinationals to contribute, support, and implement solutions in all size companies.
The Common Thread in my Story is continuous learning and development of leadership and management skills.
- I started to work in Norway in Norsk Hydro thereafter Elf Aquitaine, as Cost and Planning Engineer in Oil & Gas platforms.
- In Germany, Purchaser in Volkswagen within worldwidePurchasing & Product Optimisation;
- In United Kingdom, in Currie & Brown as Senior Project Manager for the Hotel Division
- In Spain, I started in SEAT as Investment Manager, then PPG Ibérica as Sales Director and Armacell Iberia as CFO, Finance and Administration Manager.
- In Ireland, Norway and Scotland, I was partner and European responsible for Production, Purchasing and Distribution of fish and seafood to the wholesale markets of Spain, France and Italy.
- In 2018, I established myself as a Strategic Business Consultant offering solutions and Value to my clients, among others: Frit Ravich, Casa Westfalia, Valkiria HUBspace, Transportes Codina, RGB Audiovisual, Agirac2005.
I am passionate about the business world. It is my Vocation.
Benefits to my clients
Benefit 1 - Opportunities
I introduce concrete, simple and measurable proposals to reduce, eliminate or transform pains into short, medium and long term opportunities. To do so, I analyse the organisation, processes, the financial data and KPIs, studying the smalldata.
Benefit 2 - Wellbeing
I increase theprofitabilityand wellbeing in work places, matching and aligning the people to talent and positions. I analyse the optimal organisation for the achievement of objectives: KPIs, critical paths, priorities and use of time and resources.
Benefit 3 - Net Profit
Targets and Direct Impact in the Profit and Loss account. Through transversal projects with Objectives and KPIs, that are doable, clear, concrete, measurable and impact in the Profit & Loss account of the company.
I help companies to be proactive and “Make things Happen” not “Wait for them to Happen”.
My Methodology
My Methodology consists in identifying the origin of pain points in the company, support and contribute with transversal solutions to the processes that could be limiting its growth and development.
Methodologies adapted to the client´s challenges:
- Coaching x Values: to look into Communication, Organisation and Leadership.
- Leadership by Values: introducing Self-knowledge, Self-Leadership and Leadership of teams.
- Business Canvas: for Business Model analysis
- La Marel©: own methodology, developed with Veronique Barlagne (Baruch Consulting) to resolve cultural and generational conflicts in the teams.
The most Important challenge for me is to reach profitable and sustainable solutions for my client that give wellbeing to the people, organisation and ecosystem.
What do clients say about me?
Bob Sikking
Managing director Casa Westfalia
The job: To prepare a fully new concept for market launching within 10 months. The concept: A complete range of high quality level frozen ready to heat products, for the horeca professionals.
To do: To describe the concept, the needed products, propose the final selection, find the right suppliers, make the first agreements for deliveries, prepare salesteam for launching.
To bring this project to a succes, to do the job in the right way, Maria must be and was:
Analytic, practical, hands on, able to convince suppliers and salesteam, efficient and kept always the helicopter view.
She is to the point, well informed and always looking for improving her output in favor of her client.
Iolanda Triviño
Founder IFF Institute For Futures & Valkiria Innovation Hub
Maria es, además de una gran persona, si cabe una mejor profesional, totalmente adaptada a los nuevos modelos de Talento, que necesitan las organizaciones enfocadas a la innovación y al Futuro del Trabajo. Es resiliente por naturaleza, muestra una gran empatía con los equipos, y se adapta con rapidez a los retos de las estructuras organizativas, siempre con una visión desde fuera como “ousider” la mejora exponencial de procesos y perfiles para alcanzar la máxima productividad. María colabora desde hace años en proyectos en los que estoy inmersa entre ellos: Valkiria Hub Space, Institute for Futures, Global Future of Work Foundation. Sus contactos a nivel de redes nacionales e internacionales definen su expertise y un gran conocimiento. Las empresas que apuestan por su talento siempre resultan beneficiadas y sobretodo nunca restan indiferentes, empiezan a fluir mejor en el cambio hacia la Transformación.
Xavier Torrents
Socio fundador en Innova Projectes/Gastonomía & Food service
María fue vital para llegar a buen fin en el nuevo modelo de negocio del Restaurante “La Caléndula”, proyecto en el que trabajamos juntos. Como persona y como profesional es un diez. Mis mejores recuerdos de un proyecto donde nos demostró trasmitir confianza al equipo, con mucha profesionalidad, y con una muy buena gestión de los tiempos. En los 5 meses que tuvimos la oportunidad de poder compartir coaching gastronómico en este proyecto fue todo un lujo tenerla en el equipo. Es una persona con una gran visión del negocio. (Uno aprende día a día de los colaboradores). Hoy por hoy solo me queda dar las gracias y decirle que volvería a trabajar con ella con los ojos cerrados. Gracias Maria por hacer equipo, sumando talento en este proyecto. “El Talento gana partidos, pero solo el equipo gana campeonatos”.
Iolanda Bustos
Chef y divulgadora de cocina biodinámica
Ha sido maravilloso tener a María auditando y asesorando mi proyecto estos últimos meses. Nunca imaginé que un profesional externo pudiera ser tan implicada y responsable, manteniendo el equilibrio del equipo, con todos los valores alineados. Ireland es sin duda una consultora de visión holística. Según mi experiencia con otras consultorías, había visto como personas expertas se dedicaban a poner parches en las ruedas pinchadas. Sin explicar cómo evitar el pinchazo en otras ocasiones. María ha resuelto y ha aportado métodos para la sostenibilidad y crecimiento de calidad de forma eficaz y medible en sus resultados. Gracias por tu dedicación y compromiso.
Simon Dolan
Creator and leader of the “Leading, managing and coaching by values” concept, methodology and tools.
María was the project manager for a global summit planned for Barcelona in 2020. She did a superb job and we were very happy with her professional work . What a pity that due to COVID -19 we had to cancel the event at the last minute. I’m in contact with Maria and should we plan other projects, there is no doubt that she will be in my shortlist.
María Saló
HR management FRIT Ravich
María, I love your energy, the passion in what you do and your profile “doer”, on top of your people focus and interest for all related to talent and leadership.
Mercè Vilà-Clara
Commercial and PR Director, La Costa Golf and Beach Resort
Maria is a great team leader. She knows how to motivate the people and how to bring out the best in everyone. She is versatile and organised in her work. She helps whenever she has a chance and she loves teamwork, where she contributes and allows to contribute to the others. It’s been a pleasure having worked with you!