About

Ciarán Fenton is a leadership consultant, board facilitator, and writer on managing relationships at work, ESG, and creating sustainable organisations, with over 20 years of experience working with CEOs and senior leaders across all sectors.

He helps CEOs be the leaders they can be, especially at points of inflection, and how to manage unresolved conflicts, an absence of a shared purpose and updating rather than decision-making at senior leadership team (SLT) meetings. He facilitates improved decision-making by exploring the interdependence between personal and organisational purpose, strategy, and behaviour (PSB).

During his early career, he held senior business leadership roles at Hachette, ITN, Pearson, and The Guardian Media Group, where he was involved in significant change programmes. Ciarán is a mentor at London Business School’s Entrepreneurship Summer School, a visiting leadership lecturer at London Business School, London School of Economics, Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, Queen's University Belfast and was a faculty member of the LBC2 Programme for senior in-house lawyers.

In 2022, he was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma, had extensive chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, leading to remission. He believes the experience changed him, his purpose, and his approach to work, including his recently published book,  The Modern In-house Lawyer: Optimising Relationships for Growth & Success in an ESG Environment (Globe Law & Business, 2023, https://tinyurl.com/2mhb458w), which he wrote during his treatment. He is writing his next book live on Substack (https://tinyurl.com/3ts3ncr6): Most Mondays: How to Find Peace & Joy at Work Most of the Time or What's the Point? 

Ciarán holds a degree in business from the National University of Ireland, Cork. He is married to the writer Marian Garvey. They live in Northern Ireland and have two adult children.