Business Works Ireland

marina bleahen, founder and ceo of businessworks, is an accomplished professional business coach and trainer with a passion for helping business leaders and their teams succeed. marina, a former global brand director in pharma, has spent the last two decades helping organisations transform their success from “good” to “great” using the philosophy from the good to great – a book by author jim collins. bleahen and the businessworks team focus on igniting the passion in business leaders and their teams, to demand more from themselves driving the message ‘the good is the enemy of great and we were put on this planet to be the very best we can be, mediocrity is not an option.’ working within a cross-section of industries & organisations during the last recession as the managing director of actioncoach, bleahen found that some leaders and teams get ‘stuck’ and find it difficult to execute the business plan and strategy. this motivated her to research why some organisations excel and other