Marina Bleahen, Founder and CEO of BusinessWorks, is an award-winning Business Executive Coach, Trainer, and Engagement Strategist, with a passion for helping business leaders and their teams succeed.

With over 25 years’ experience in the fields of business, marketing and communications, Marina works with business owners and their teams to build sustainable, highly profitable enterprises.

Previously a Global Director of Strategic Marketing with Elan Pharmaceuticals, Marina studied radiography in University College Dublin and ran a successful private clinic before joining Elan. Marina went on to become Managing Director of ActionCoach Ireland, with ActionCoach being the largest and most successful business coaching franchise in the world.

Having spent the last two decades helping organisations transform their success from “good” to “GREAT” Marina prides herself on creating a truly engaged workplace, where employees love to come to work, where future leaders are nurtured, and teams are more productive, purposeful and profitable than they’ve ever been!

Now, the current President of the North Dublin Chamber of Commerce, and the CEO of a leading consultancy that transforms the prospects of other businesses, Marina has her finger on the pulse of industry interests and challenges. Her signature skill is in transforming managers, at all levels of business, into highly agile and engaging leaders, where the key message is

‘Good is the enemy of great and we were put on this planet to be the very best we can be’.

While working within a cross-section of industries and organisations during the last recession, Marina found that a huge number of leaders and teams get stuck, or plateau, and find it difficult to execute the business plan and strategy.  This motivated her to research why some organisations excel and others don’t and quickly discovered the answer to the problem, is “CULTURE”!

Marina fast became a leading voice with other global experts in Culture and Leadership. As the exclusive licensee for Partners in Leadership* across Ireland and the UK as well as an exclusive partner with Engage & Grow, and DOOR International Training & Consulting, Marina’s reach and expertise goes far beyond these shores.

“Our expertise is in designing and delivering bespoke local and global training solutions for your clients.”

She goes onto say that

“either your culture is working for you or against you. Our Virtual training programmes are designed to help you engage your team and actively manage culture to deliver high performance and success.”

Marina, together with her highly skilled team at BusinessWorks, guarantee to accelerate your team performance through building a culture of positive accountability and leadership to achieve results.

“As employees continue to work remotely from home, their kitchen tables and spare rooms, more than ever it is so important that business leaders manage culture as virtual working has become the norm”

Marina goes onto say that “either your culture is working for you or against you. Our personal and virtual training programmes are designed to help you engage your team and actively manage culture to deliver high performance and success.”

For more information on how we can build bespoke solutions for your business get in touch with

*Partners In Leadership work with half of the Fortune Top 50 companies, helping them deliver success through optimising culture.

Get in touch with BusinessWorks Team today!