On Camino Once More: 7 Keys to Embrace the Freedom of Joy

Ann McGarry is a human development consultant, trainer, coach and author. Since 2001, she has provided programmes on leadership, management development and personal effectiveness, designed to meet personal fulfilment, whilst also delivering on organisational goals. Her clients are both the public and private sectors, from SME to multinational corporations. She also has a private coaching practice.

Ann has also provided quality consultancy services internationally to the highly regulated pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors. Prior to setting up her consultancy practice, she held senior quality assurance roles in the pharmaceutical and allied sectors for twenty years, where staff development formed a significant part of her role.

Her lecturing experience includes universities, both in Limerick and Galway, Ireland, delivering on human resource development, supervisory management, quality management and related subjects.

Ann is a strong advocate of lifelong learning. In 1977, she graduated with a BSc in Chemistry, and over the next ten years, obtained additional technical qualifications: a Diploma in Industrial Management and a Certificate in Total Quality Management. She then expanded her studies to personal development, to include a Certificate in Stress Reduction and Relaxation Counselling, Diploma in Training and Development, Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Diploma in Professional Coaching. In 2012, she graduated with an MSc in Work and Organisational Behaviour from the University of Limerick, with her thesis centring on the development of leadership effectiveness. She has gained qualifications as a practitioner and teacher in a number of holistic therapies.

Her passion for the development of human potential and capacities inspired her writings – Care of Leadership: A Practice for Developing Leadership Effectiveness (Orpen Press, 2017); Power of W: Women Thriving in Their Third Act (Orpen Press, 2023), and now her third book, On Camino Once More: 7 Keys to Embrace the Freedom of Joy.

In her late sixties, with the publication of Power of W, her more recent focus has been redirected to the Third Act and living life to the highest potential, as she describes it – the Authentic Self. Her more recent training programme, “REIGNITE: Rewire not Retire”, echoes the theme of living a meaningful and fulfilling Third Act.

On Camino Once More: 7 Keys to Embrace the Freedom of Joy continues the deepening of this theme to grow and evolve.

Living between Ireland and Portugal, she pursues her passion for contribution and communication as a writer, delivering personal development programmes and seminars, coaching, and as an artist. She regularly walks Caminos in Northern Spain. On these Caminos, she is blessed with inspiration for her writings, programmes and seminar offerings.