About Evolve

Evolve is a training consultancy company founded in Dublin in 1997. Currently we have offices in both Dublin and London. We provide high quality, inspiring training and consultancy to service and manufacturing sectors. Clients come to us when they require bespoke tailored learning solution for specific organisational goals, problems, performance gaps, or targets. While we work most aspects of organisational development, we have developed expertise in the areas of Sales, Management, Communication and Innovation.

At Evolve, we don’t hire trainers, we don’t do generic training, nor will we accept a training request without fully understanding your business issues.

We hire business consultants who are expert in the area of training, coaching and mentoring, and business development. Every consultant on our team has extensive experience of working in industry not just training and development. They were subject to rigorous vetting before they were invited to join the Evolve team, and they are constantly updating their expertise via ongoing education. Furthermore, they have undergone extensive internal training so that they understand our vision and philosophy, our way of working and approach to developing and managing relationships with our clients. In addition, every member of the team has a business development sales target. We feel that this only right given that one of our areas of expertise is in the area of training people to sell!

We are sufficiently experienced to have worked through both good times and previous recessionary times.

We believe in partnering with clients as opposed to providing them with a service. We guarantee satisfaction with all our work once we accept a commission. This guarantee is the quality assurance we offer each and every client of our company: our training programmes aren't off the shelf; neither are we.

Meet Our Team

Conor Morris

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Conor Morris is the Managing Director of Evolve Consultants – the company he started back in 1998. Prior to this Conor worked in the training and mentoring industry for four years after he left the Jefferson Smurfit Group.

Over the years Conor has been involved in designing sales process and training in many of Ireland’s leading organisations, including GE, O2, Digicel Caribbean
Royal Sun Alliance, Eircom Enterprise Markets, Bank of Ireland, Halifax, GSK, Motorola, EMC, Tesco Group, Three Mobile, Hibernian etc. Conor also advises on aligning training functions for more commercial impact and to that end he has been central to setting up internal Training Academies for a number of our clients.

Conor is also the current Chairman of the professional body for Sales Professionals in Ireland – The Sales Institute of Ireland. ( http://www.salesinstitute.ie) and he is Ireland’s only 'Master Trainer' with Motorola University where he lectures extensively throughout North America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

In more recent times Conor specialises in coaching and mentoring at an executive and board level and he is a member of Enterprise Ireland’s National Coaching Panel.
He is a regular on the Irish business speaker circuit and has been conference host for the CIPD National Training and Development Conference for the last four years in a row.

Conor holds a Masters Degree in Organisational Behaviour - specialising in the area of organisational change. He is a member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, the CIPD, and the British Psychological Society.

David Malone

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David Malone is an Executive Director at Evolve Consultants. He has spent over a 15 years in training and education industry. Prior to working with Evolve he was a training manager with both Esat Telecom Group (BT Ireland) and Irish Permanent plc (now Permanent TSB).

More recently, at Evolve, David specialises in management development, personal development, and sales / service training. His client base is here in Ireland, the U.K., and mainland Europe.

He is also widely regarded as one of Ireland’s best training programme designers and does a lot of work in this area for clients. He is a member of the CIPD and British Psychological Society and a certified NLP practitioner. He holds an honours degree in business studies and a number of third level qualifications in the area of training and development and public relations. He regularly speaks on the Irish business circuit.

David is a native of Dublin, and his passion outside of work is his family, sport and cooking!

Brian McIvor

MA, BSc, MusBac, ARIAM, HDipEd, BPS Level B Inter Plus
Brian is our Human Resources and Outplacement services associate expert. He has over 30 years experience in the public service and financial service sectors as well as with Third World governments. He has been involved in training activities since 1978 when he joined the Management Training Unit of the Institute of Public Administration in Lansdowne Road as Training Specialist.

For five years he was a staff member of the Annual International Career and Life Change programme run by Dick Bolles, author of the best-selling career planning book “What Colour is Your Parachute”. He has been a consultant trainer to the Retirement Planning Council of Ireland (since 2006). He regularly runs career and life planning workshops both in Ireland and in the USA. We believe Brian is uniquely positioned to consult organizations’ on talent management and outplacement services. We are delighted to have Brian on our Associate panel.
His areas of expertise include -

• Career planning and development
• Pre-retirement planning
• Designing an outplacement programme

Patricia Morris

Patricia Morris specialises in Financial Accounting, Management Accounting and Financial Management at Evolve. She also specialises in presenting courses in ‘Finance for the Non- Financial Manager’. She lectures with Institute of Technology, Tallaght since 1995 in the area of Accounting having trained and qualified as an Accountant with PCW.  Patricia has extensive practical experience in small to medium sized enterprises having previously run her own business.  She holds a Bachelor of Business Studies (1983) from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Professional Accounting from Dublin City University (1984). She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Karen Belshaw

Karen is our stress management consultant here at Evolve. Karen holds an honours degree in Psychology. She is a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and the British Psychological Society (BPS) and bound by the code of ethics of PSI.  She is a regular demand from the Irish media and makes regular appearances of national and local radio stations. She also appears on RTE’s The Afternoon Show, and TV3’s Good Morning Breakfast Show, (discussing the impact of stress and stress related problems) from time to time. Currently, she is the expert behind the “Ask the Expert: Stress” website, for VHI Healthcare.  

Peter Robbins, Senior Innovation Consultant, Evolve

Peter Robbins is one of Ireland’s foremost experts in innovation and new product and service development. Until recently, he has been the global head of innovation excellence for GlaxoSmithKline where he was responsible for creating the worldwide, new product launches for Lucozade, Aquafresh, Sensodyne, Panadol, Ribena, alli and NiQuitin.

Peter was also responsible for creating a common global approach to innovation within GSK and this role involved designing and delivering significant internal training programmes with various stakeholders within the organisation, including the R&D commuity.

Peter specialises in creating, incubating and implementing new business ideas for clients. In essence, Peter helps businesses grow through innovation. Most businesses will have innovation as a key priority but many need help translating the priority into a tangible, actionable, commercial innovation roadmap for their business.

Peter lectures in small business (SME) programmes for the IMI; he is a part-time lecturer in Innovation in DCU and is a visiting lecturer in NUI Galway and UCD. Peter has trained in the renowned Stanford D School, he is a graduate of London’s What-if creativity programme and is currently (2010) completing a PhD on the topic of Innovation Teams.