Who, What & Why

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Talent Impact Lab is led by Ciara D’Arcy, a business leader and executive coach with a proven track record in driving business results through people. 

Prior to setting up Talent Impact Lab, Ciara was HR Director with Accenture Ireland, during a time of rapid headcount growth and considerable expansion of the service offering to clients. 

Before that, Ciara spent 10 years working with Google, during a time of unprecedented growth and maturation. Ciara was influential in the successful scaling of the Dublin operation, and the development of leaders at local, EMEA and global levels. 

Ciara has been  a trusted advisor to many leaders, and is skilled in talent strategy, talent management, organisation change, high performance cultures and resilience.

With a background in employee relations and employment legislation gained from 9 years working with IBEC, Ciara is also a qualified executive coach, MBTI practitioner and Strengths facilitator. 

As trusted advisors, the philosophy at Talent Impact Lab Commercial is to firstly build understanding, of both you and your business. We then partner with you to design an agile and commercially driven people plan to meet your talent needs.

A few of our core principles include:

• Growth mindset: real impact is achieved when people have an open mind, continuously learn and are focused on the outcomes of their work. We will work to embed this mindset. 
• Outsight: being focused on the day-to-day can make it hard to take a step back so we can help bring a new perspective and insight that will help you think about your business differently and for the longer term. 
• Bold questions: our intent is to optimise your talent, so will ask challenging questions when needed to move you and your teams forward.
• Sustainability: achieving business success and continuing to drive high performance requires stamina so we work to build resilience and develop sustainable work habits. 
• Measurement: as the saying goes, what gets measured gets done so we will embed a metric driven approach to your talent agenda.

Businesses leaders and their teams spend time and effort building business plans, and defining their goals and targets all too often, they don’t take the same time to ensure that their people are aligned to those goals.  

We are passionate about closing the gap between the business strategy and the people plan. 

People are at the heart of every business, never more so than in this digital age, so it is vital to ensure that your business has the right people, in the right roles, both now and in the longer term and that the employee experience is one that will ensure you can continue to attract and retain the talent you need to achieve your commercial goals.