Liam Sheedy is to take on a senior role within Teneo, having stepped down last October from his role in Bank of Ireland, where he led the Munster Division of the Bank.

He will develop and lead the Irish operations of its new global Teneo Performance business.

Teneo Performance will help companies successfully navigate the long term social and business impacts brought about by the events of the last 12 months as the world gradually adjusts to new concepts of how work is undertaken and done every day.

Specifically, the new business will help CEOs improve performance across all levels of their organization through programmes and organizational changes, built around changing attitudes toward diversity, inclusion, purpose and sustainability.

Among the areas that will be covered are corporate purpose development, culture transformation, organizational alignment and talent strategy.

It will also combine proven development models with experiential content to create both in-person and virtual workshops.

Team

The team in Ireland will also include Teneo Senior Managing Director Mary Dunphy and performance advisors James Bowen and Brian MacNeice, who joined Teneo last year through the acquisition of Kotinos Partners.

Sheedy will also take up the role of Vice Chairman of Teneo Ireland, which employs over 70 employees across a range of disciplines including strategic communications, public affairs, and management consulting.

Teneo Performance, which is being launched initially in Ireland, will be led by Chairman of Teneo International Chris Wearing and will leverage expertise from across Teneo as well as a number of the firm’s Senior Advisors which include Ursula Burns, former Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation, and sports leaders such as Irish and Lions rugby captain Brian O’Driscoll.

Sheedy is a long time friend of Teneo Founder Declan Kelly. They hail from the same village of Portroe in Tipperary and teneo has been the main sponsor of the Tipperary Hurling and Football teams since 2018.

The company is headquartered in New York and is a strong player in the Irish sports sponsorship sector. The company partners with Sport for Business each year for our signature Sporting Year Ahead event.

Ambition and Expertise

“The ambition and expertise of Teneo, with its focus on CEO advisory services and particularly now on helping CEOs and organisations navigate the specific challenges of today, is such that the opportunity to build and lead the new Teneo Performance offering in Ireland is something I relish,” said Sheedy.

“With 18 years in senior roles in the Bank of Ireland until November of last year and three decades in sports management, I’ve spent most of my working and sporting life focussed on creating winning teams.”

“With that experience, I’m really looking forward to marrying those experiences with the expertise of the Teneo Advisor network from the worlds of business and sport and the capabilities of the company’s wider CEO advisory services. This will evolve into a programme that will enable CEOs and organisations triumph in the face of what are considerable, fast-moving and evolving challenges today.”

“Teneo Performance is going to be an enabler for CEOs and businesses around the world to develop a high-performance and winning mentality in a hugely challenging and rapidly changing environment,” said Declan Kelly, Chairman and CEO of Teneo.

“We are delighted to welcome Liam to Teneo. I have known him both personally and professionally for many years and know he will provide our clients with truly unique insights into leadership and creating winning teams and cultures.”

“This is a really exciting appointment for Teneo Performance as Liam brings a winning mentality into organisations, which is what this Teneo Performance offering will essentially be about,” added Chris Wearing, Chairman of Teneo International.

Winning Strategies

“He has an innate understanding of what it takes to develop winning strategies and cultures and the ability also to make courageous and quick decisions in a fast-changing environment – attributes that were never more necessary than in the life of CEOs and their organisations today.”

“It has been fascinating working with Teneo over the last number of years as a senior advisor and seeing up close the work advising CEOs and senior business leaders all over the world and helping them navigate complex issues,” said Brian O’Driscoll.

“I am greatly looking forward to working with Liam and others in the new global Teneo Performance business and helping companies improve performance across all levels of their organisation as they emerge from the upheaval brought about by the unprecedented events of the last 12 months.”

“Bringing together the expertise Teneo has at the highest levels of business and politics and combining this with the valuable lessons from elite high-performance sport, will help leaders make decisions in pressurised circumstances and build a winning team culture.”

It is an exciting departure for both Sheedy and the company. One that we will follow with interest over the coming years.

 

Sport for Business Partners