Building strength in leaders
We build strength in leaders by helping them to address the core issues that prevent them reaching their full potential. Our commercial and mediative experience enables us to quickly and fully understand their business challenges, then present practical and effective solutions.
About Core Leadership
Carson Mulholland and Jeremy Gardiner formed Core Leadership in 2015. They were determined to help companies and other organisations get the very best from their leaders.
They recognised that there were often barriers, both real and psychological, that prevented leaders within companies from achieving their full potential – barriers that could be removed through effective and expert coaching. Their overriding aim is to make a tangible and significant difference to people’s lives, releasing the best that is already within them.

Why work with Core?
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Partners
We work in partnership with you. Great results will only come from working together with a shared purpose. Our success is measured by your success.
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Strategic
We gain an understanding of your context and strategic priorities before we work with your people.
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Experienced
We bring years of commercial experience. We’ve managed and led teams. We’ve been in your shoes.
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Impactful
We bring our commercial and people experience, making a positive difference to individuals, teams and organisations.
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Trust
Trust is foundational to success. We create environments in which your people feel safe to engage in honest dialogue, finding solutions, creating new possibilities.
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Courageous
We take risks in stretching you to your maximum potential, because we believe we owe it to you to do so.
Our Experts
As a company that specialises in getting the most from other organisations’ people, it is naturally our own people that are the key to delivering that.
Carson Mulholland
DirectorCarson is a highly commercial and experienced facilitator and Executive Coach having managed senior teams during his 20 year career within professional services, banking and manufacturing sectors. Carson began his career with PWC, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant. He has led and managed senior teams across a number of functions including finance and operations. He brings strong financial, commercial and strategic experience to the development of high performance teams. Carson has recently worked with leadership teams globally, including CDK Global, Allen & Overy, An Post, White’s Speedicook, Natures Way Foods and Spire Healthcare.
Carson is married to Alix and has two children. A keen, if not slow footballer who avidly follows Manchester United. Escaping often to the tracks in the Mourne Mountains.