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Former Skillnet Ireland CEO joins Futurus Consulting

Press release, Dublin, May 20th:

Futurus, the organisational change consultancy known for supporting leaders and their teams deliver high performance in an increasingly challenging and complex business environments, has announced that Paul Healy, former Chief Executive of Skillnet Ireland, has joined the firm as a Partner.

Paul brings over 20 years of senior leadership experience across the private and public sectors, most recently leading the transformation of Skillnet Ireland into a cornerstone of Ireland’s enterprise strategy. During his tenure, the agency more than doubled its national reach, expanded its influence in EU and national policy and built deep cross-sector partnerships that now enable over 90,000 workers and 24,000 businesses each year to become future-ready.

“Futurus brings something different to the table,” said Healy. “Clients need clarity, judgement and support they can trust. What drew me to Futurus is seeing an organisation that walks with leadership teams through their real pressure points, aligning people, structures and delivery in challenging, fast-moving environments. We are looking forward to introducing Futurus to more clients”.

Futurus has grown steadily in Ireland and internationally, supporting leaders and their teams across international financial services, pharma, medtech, government, education and transport. Its strengths lie in its ability to get beneath the surface with clients, realign their organisations, drive performance and engagement, and move forward with confidence.

“We co-create with our clients the solutions that are best suited to the challenges that confront them”, said Neville Bourke, Partner at Futurus. “We work with our clients to build the clarity, leadership cohesion and organisational alignment needed to deliver results at pace, and we stay close throughout implementation. Paul’s track record in developing Ireland’s greatest asset, its workforce of the future, makes him a natural fit for Futurus.”

Futurus is known for its systemic, people-powered approach to performance and change. Every engagement is shaped by experience, its partners having led large transformations including restructure, scaling and growth, mergers, acquisitions and divestments, culture, regulatory reform and culture, and technology shifts.

“At Futurus, we are experts in work, in people and in people at work” said Ronan Myler, Partner. “Who leaders are and what they do impacts everyone in their organisation. Our brand promise, “Work Made Better”, means helping leaders create working environments where individuals and teams operate with more alignment, more confidence and greater impact.  We help leaders to have systemic influence, unlocking performance and higher levels of engagement across their business.”