About us

Dr. Colm Murphy founded Dynamic Leadership Development in 2008, after over ten years global experience in leadership and executive development within the I.T. and Professional Services sectors.

As a coach and trainer, Colm is passionate about assisting leaders and their teams to achieve meaningful behaviour changes that drive business results through focused and engaging coaching and training interventions.

Colm is a strong advocate of focusing on people’s strengths and passions in order to help them be truly distinctive and impactful in all aspects of their lives. He uses recognized psychological frameworks in helping clients obtain long lasting changes.

Colm lives in Dublin with his wife and triplet sons.  

He is former Head of Coaching Programmes for UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School and is a faculty member on their Executive Development and MBA programmes.  He is also a senior faculty member of the Global Team Coaching Institute.

Colm has a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from the Universty of Portsmouth with reaearch entitled 'The contribution of team coaching to team effectiveness: an Action Research study’. He holds Postgraduate Diplomas in Executive Coaching, Systemic Team Coaching and Coaching Psychology as well as in Training & Development. He is a certified Myers Briggs, Birkman Method and NLP facilitator.  

He also has a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Masters in Accounting and was a qualified chartered accountant for a number of years.

Colm is a Master Accredited Coach with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and adheres to their code of practice (www.emccouncil.org).  He is also a member of the Interntional Coach Federation.