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Ciarán Fenton  Ciarán Fenton is a leadership consultant, board facilitator, and writer/speaker on managing relationships at work, ESG, and creating sustainable organisations.  

He facilitates improved decision-making on senior leadership teams and boards by exploring the interdependence between each member's personal purpose, strategy and behaviour (PSB) and that of their organisation. 

 During his early career, he held senior business leadership roles at Hachette, ITN, Pearson and The Guardian Media Group, where he was involved in change programmes.   

Ciarán is a visiting lecturer on leadership, creating sustainable organisations and influencing skills, is a mentor at London Business School’s Entrepreneurship Summer School, and is a faculty member on Paul Gilbert’s LBCambridge2 senior in-house counsel programme.   

In 2022, he was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma and had extensive chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, leading to remission. He feels that experience changed his purpose and approach to his work, speaking and writing, including his recently published book The Modern In-house Lawyer: Optimising Relationships for Growth & Success in an ESG Environment (Globe Law & Business, 2023).   

He is writing his next book,  Most Mondays: How to Find Peace at Work Most of the Time from Your First Job to Your Last.    

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