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CPD Course Speaker
PRSI Consultancy Ltd
Brendan Casey
Brendan Casey has been practising as a lecturer and a PRSI Consultant since retiring from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection over 10 years ago.
Brendan advises on PRSI liability issues and is an expert on all of Welfare’s contributory benefit and pension schemes.
Brendan advises on PRSI liability issues and is an expert on all of Welfare’s contributory benefit and pension schemes.
OmniPro Tax and Legal
John Murphy
As a Director of OmniPro Tax and Legal Limited, John relishes problem-solving to help accountants develop innovative client solutions and sharing his technical knowledge on tax, company law, financial reporting and auditing.
A Chartered Tax Adviser, he advises clients in practice on a range of issues from income tax, tax planning, restructuring to exit planning as well as advising on company law in relation to these and many other matters. In addition, he provides support on financial reporting, auditing and company law; conducts company valuations and advises on pre-sale restructuring. He is also an insolvency practitioner who acts as liquidator in members voluntary liquidations and is a Registered Auditor.
A Chartered Tax Adviser, he advises clients in practice on a range of issues from income tax, tax planning, restructuring to exit planning as well as advising on company law in relation to these and many other matters. In addition, he provides support on financial reporting, auditing and company law; conducts company valuations and advises on pre-sale restructuring. He is also an insolvency practitioner who acts as liquidator in members voluntary liquidations and is a Registered Auditor.
MK Brazil
Lauren Greene
Lauren Greene (CTA, ACA) started her career with PwC before joining MK Brazil’s tax department in 2018 where she provides support tax consultancy to other professional advisors. Lauren has worked with students for various bodies such as ACA, ITI, ICD and ATI, and lectures regularly on tax issues.
Brass Tax Consultancy
Morna Canty-Ahern
Morna is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Consultant, working as an Assistant Lecturer in Taxation with TUS formerly Limerick Institute of Technology. Morna is owner of a boutique tax advisor firm Brass Tax Consultancy which is based in the Mid-West. Morna is Vice-Chair of the Mid-West Chartered Accountants Society.
Morna has over a decade of experience in the Finance sector, having started her career in practice, she has worked for a number of high-profile companies across the public and private sector. Morna is technical editor for a series of tax publications and enjoys advising on tax education.
Morna has over a decade of experience in the Finance sector, having started her career in practice, she has worked for a number of high-profile companies across the public and private sector. Morna is technical editor for a series of tax publications and enjoys advising on tax education.
Crowe Ireland
Michael O'Scathaill
Michael is a director in the firm’s tax department. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the NUI and is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and an AITI Chartered Tax Advisor.
Michael manages a varied and interesting portfolio of corporate and personal tax clients from a range of sectors including food & beverage, retail, insurance, construction and waste management. He has a strong relationship with his clients and works closely with them to deliver a service that meets their commercial as well as their taxation requirements.
Michael manages a varied and interesting portfolio of corporate and personal tax clients from a range of sectors including food & beverage, retail, insurance, construction and waste management. He has a strong relationship with his clients and works closely with them to deliver a service that meets their commercial as well as their taxation requirements.
Lovell Consulting
John Lovell
John has over 30 years’ experience as a capital allowances specialist. John trained with the accounting firm Arthur Andersen and helped found the capital allowances team. At the time, Andersen’s were the first accounting firm to set up a capital allowances specialist team and employ chartered surveyors and train them in taxation. John later formed Lovell Consulting, which for the last 21 years specialises in capital allowances. John qualified as a chartered quantity surveyor with McBains. John qualified as a member of the Association of Tax Technicians. John was educated at Reading University where he gained a First-Class honours degree in Quantity Surveying. He gained a scholarship to Oxford University Green Templeton College and attained a Master of Philosophy degree in Management Studies. John is a Chartered Surveyor.
OmniPro
Sinead Gortland
Sinead joined the Corporate Consultants formations team in OmniPro in 2016 and built up her experience and knowledge before moving into the Company Secretarial team and is the current Head of OmniPro Company Secretarial.
As a key member of CPD Stores speaker team Sinead’s focus is Beneficial Ownership, Annual Compliance and Corporate Governance. Sinead is passionate about making company secretarial and company law accessible and approachable to agents and accountants.
As a member of the Corporate Consultants team Sinead is also responsible for carrying out; Section 343 applications, High Court Company Restorations, Annual Compliance, Company Law Compliance and AML. As well as this Sinead delivers bespoke training in the areas of corporate governance and compliance.
In her previous roles Sinead spent time in education and ESG and has a MSc from Maynooth.
As a key member of CPD Stores speaker team Sinead’s focus is Beneficial Ownership, Annual Compliance and Corporate Governance. Sinead is passionate about making company secretarial and company law accessible and approachable to agents and accountants.
As a member of the Corporate Consultants team Sinead is also responsible for carrying out; Section 343 applications, High Court Company Restorations, Annual Compliance, Company Law Compliance and AML. As well as this Sinead delivers bespoke training in the areas of corporate governance and compliance.
In her previous roles Sinead spent time in education and ESG and has a MSc from Maynooth.
ESG Consultant
Benjamin Okpara
Benjamin is a senior climate change and sustainability consultant with EY Dublin where he works on a broad range of sustainability advisory and assurance engagements. His core expertise are in ESG strategy, sustainability assurance, GHG Accounting, net zero strategy development, CSRD reporting and ESG integration. Prior to joining EY, Benjamin worked with PwC Nigeria and has previous experience in the academia.
He is a published author with over 10 scientific articles in field of ecotoxicology and environmental forensics. Ben is a certified ISO 14001 Environment Management Systems Lead Auditor and has a certificate in business and Climate change from Cambridge University.
He is a published author with over 10 scientific articles in field of ecotoxicology and environmental forensics. Ben is a certified ISO 14001 Environment Management Systems Lead Auditor and has a certificate in business and Climate change from Cambridge University.
Technical Executive
Lungi Sepotokele
Lungi trained with PwC in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of mining companies. She completed part of her training as an academic at Wits University where she completed her Master of Commerce degree. Lungi has worked in external audit in Canada as an audit senior and Ireland as an audit manager.
Outside of her accounting qualifications Lungi is a hobby baker who volunteers by baking for the homeless in Dublin City
Outside of her accounting qualifications Lungi is a hobby baker who volunteers by baking for the homeless in Dublin City
OmniPro
Colm Owens
As a member of our Practice Support team, Colm’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, prepare for monitoring visits and assist with post-monitoring visits follow-ups.
Having spent the 6 years prior to joining OmniPro as a quality reviewer with Chartered Accountants Ireland Colm has a unique insight into how firms operate, the challenges facing firms and how firms are responding to current issues facing them and the profession.
Having spent the 6 years prior to joining OmniPro as a quality reviewer with Chartered Accountants Ireland Colm has a unique insight into how firms operate, the challenges facing firms and how firms are responding to current issues facing them and the profession.
Friel Stafford
Tom Murray
Tom qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) in 1997 whilst working with Chase Manhattan Bank. Tom has over 20 years experience in accounting and business roles.
He is one of Ireland’s most experienced corporate recovery and turnaround practitioners and was one of the first Personal Insolvency Practitioners licensed in Ireland.
He also is an experienced Corporate Financier with particular interest and expertise in the area of equity and debt fund raising, and the buying and selling of businesses.
He is heavily involved with the ACCA accountancy body and is a past President of ACCA Ireland. He represented ACCA Ireland at the ACCA International Assembly in 2011. He was nominated in January 2021 by ACCA to represent it on the the CCABI insolvency Committee.
He is authorised to act as a Personal Insolvency Practitioner by the Insolvency Service of Ireland.
He is one of Ireland’s most experienced corporate recovery and turnaround practitioners and was one of the first Personal Insolvency Practitioners licensed in Ireland.
He also is an experienced Corporate Financier with particular interest and expertise in the area of equity and debt fund raising, and the buying and selling of businesses.
He is heavily involved with the ACCA accountancy body and is a past President of ACCA Ireland. He represented ACCA Ireland at the ACCA International Assembly in 2011. He was nominated in January 2021 by ACCA to represent it on the the CCABI insolvency Committee.
He is authorised to act as a Personal Insolvency Practitioner by the Insolvency Service of Ireland.
OmniPro Strategic Solutions
Lindsay Webber
As a head of Strategic Solutions at OmniPro, Lindsay’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, providing in-house training and technical assistance in audit and financial reporting.
Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.
Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.
Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.
Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.
Appletree Marketing Consultancy
Chantal Cornelius
Chantal Cornelius left the corporate world in 2000 to set up Appletree Marketing. It was the second best decision she’s ever made.
Since then, she’s filled her time helping hundreds of service businesses, including accountancy firms, to grow their businesses. Her marketing advice is straight forward, practical and down to earth. She’s written three books and the third one all about StandOut Strategies – how to really outshine your competitors – was published in October 2024.
Chantal is a Fellow of the PSA UK where she was National President for 2023-24. When she’s not speaking, training or handing out marketing advice, you’ll find her riding her horse, growing vegetables in her garden, or whizzing down a ski slope – but not all at the same time!
L2 Cyber Security Solutions
Liam Lynch
Liam has over 30 years of experience working in IT, originally as a programmer way back in the 80s before moving into networking, infrastructure and security in the 90s. He has worked with people at all levels and has the ability to explain scary technical topics and boring legal subjects in a language that most people can relate to and understand.
Liam founded L2 Cyber Security Solutions in 2016 and it's maxim is #SecuritySimplified. This matches Liam's desire to bring easy to comprehend, cyber security awareness to everyone. Liam specialises in helping micro, small and medium businesses, and charities, as they usually don't have the in-house IT or cyber security support which larger corporates do.
L2 Cyber Security offers up-to-date, fun and easy to follow cyber security awareness training and GDPR awareness training. Since the HSE incident in May 2021, our cyber security assessment service has been very popular. We can also help organisations plan and prepare for the worst with our business resiliency planning.
Liam founded L2 Cyber Security Solutions in 2016 and it's maxim is #SecuritySimplified. This matches Liam's desire to bring easy to comprehend, cyber security awareness to everyone. Liam specialises in helping micro, small and medium businesses, and charities, as they usually don't have the in-house IT or cyber security support which larger corporates do.
L2 Cyber Security offers up-to-date, fun and easy to follow cyber security awareness training and GDPR awareness training. Since the HSE incident in May 2021, our cyber security assessment service has been very popular. We can also help organisations plan and prepare for the worst with our business resiliency planning.
Emotionise AI
Marie Toft
Marie Toft is a pioneering AI innovator, founder, strategist, and communications expert, bringing a rare cross-disciplinary perspective to AI education. As CEO and Founder of Emotionise AI, one of Ireland’s first startups to work with OpenAI in 2021, Marie has hands-on experience building AI models, including leading the creation of the world’s first domain model trained with emotional intelligence at its core.
With over four years of experience building and leading AI engineering teams, Marie combines technical expertise with her background in journalism and communications—having worked with BBC, RTE, and SBS Australia—and her training in psychotherapy. This unique combination enables her to translate complex AI concepts into clear, actionable insights that are accessible to leaders, non-technical professionals, and policy influencers.
Marie’s work focuses on human-centered, emotionally intelligent approaches to AI adoption, strategy, and leadership. She specializes in making AI engaging and actionable, helping organizations implement AI responsibly while navigating its ethical and societal implications.
With over four years of experience building and leading AI engineering teams, Marie combines technical expertise with her background in journalism and communications—having worked with BBC, RTE, and SBS Australia—and her training in psychotherapy. This unique combination enables her to translate complex AI concepts into clear, actionable insights that are accessible to leaders, non-technical professionals, and policy influencers.
Marie’s work focuses on human-centered, emotionally intelligent approaches to AI adoption, strategy, and leadership. She specializes in making AI engaging and actionable, helping organizations implement AI responsibly while navigating its ethical and societal implications.
Founder and CEO of Kanso
Stacy Franklin
What if Lean wasn’t just for factories?
Stacy Franklin has built her career answering that question—demonstrating how Lean can simplify and improve the way people and teams work across healthcare, tech, retail, and other service-based sectors. As the Founder and CEO of Kanso —named for the Japanese concept of “simplicity”—she redefines what Lean can do by focusing on the people behind every process.
Raised in a family business, Stacy learned early how clear, intentional processes empower organisations and fuel real growth, especially when focused on their most valuable asset - people. After earning her Lean Black Belt at the University of Limerick, she applied those principles to leadership and frontline roles across the service industry. Throughout her career, Stacy has helped organisations save millions in the cost of resources —and she’s just getting started.
A recognised expert voice in Ireland’s Lean community, Stacy speaks at industry events, guides companies in adopting a Lean mindset, and lectures on the University of Limerick’s Master Black Belt programme. Clients value her fresh approach, meticulous eye for detail, and her habit of challenging assumptions or outdated processes by asking “Why?”—to reveal untapped opportunities.
Through tailored Lean training and consultancy, Stacy shows individuals and organisations how Lean can truly transform the way they work—creating clarity, uniting teams, and driving people-focused, measurable progress. Whether fostering a culture of continuous improvement, streamlining workflows or boosting customer satisfaction, she brings Lean to life in ways that truly resonate with today’s workplace.
www.kanso.ie
Stacy Franklin has built her career answering that question—demonstrating how Lean can simplify and improve the way people and teams work across healthcare, tech, retail, and other service-based sectors. As the Founder and CEO of Kanso —named for the Japanese concept of “simplicity”—she redefines what Lean can do by focusing on the people behind every process.
Raised in a family business, Stacy learned early how clear, intentional processes empower organisations and fuel real growth, especially when focused on their most valuable asset - people. After earning her Lean Black Belt at the University of Limerick, she applied those principles to leadership and frontline roles across the service industry. Throughout her career, Stacy has helped organisations save millions in the cost of resources —and she’s just getting started.
A recognised expert voice in Ireland’s Lean community, Stacy speaks at industry events, guides companies in adopting a Lean mindset, and lectures on the University of Limerick’s Master Black Belt programme. Clients value her fresh approach, meticulous eye for detail, and her habit of challenging assumptions or outdated processes by asking “Why?”—to reveal untapped opportunities.
Through tailored Lean training and consultancy, Stacy shows individuals and organisations how Lean can truly transform the way they work—creating clarity, uniting teams, and driving people-focused, measurable progress. Whether fostering a culture of continuous improvement, streamlining workflows or boosting customer satisfaction, she brings Lean to life in ways that truly resonate with today’s workplace.
www.kanso.ie
NFP HR Solutions
Laura Reidy
Laura Reidy leads a team of experienced HR Consultants at NFP HR Solutions offering specialist, tailored and effective human resources solutions to over 500 clients throughout Ireland.
Laura and the team at NFP HR Solutions provide a full spectrum of HR, employment law, and workplace solutions designed to support your organisation at every stage of the employee journey. From shaping HR strategy and managing change, to ensuring compliance and navigating workplace disputes, we provide practical, results-focused guidance combining legal knowledge with people-centred solutions Laura and the team provide a range of services for clients from drafting of employment contracts and employee handbooks, conducting compliance audits and assisting with all employee relations issues including absence management, performance management and investigations.
NFP HR Solutions also provide relevant, accessible, and interactive training solutions, covering all aspects of people management.
Laura and her team regularly attend Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court hearings on behalf of their clients and are experienced in all aspects of employment law.
Laura has a Bachelor of Arts in Human Resource Management from the University of Limerick and a Higher Certificate in Hotel & Catering Management from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.
Prior to joining the company in 2016 Laura worked in various operational management roles in the hotel industry, before specialising in HR Management.
Laura and the team at NFP HR Solutions provide a full spectrum of HR, employment law, and workplace solutions designed to support your organisation at every stage of the employee journey. From shaping HR strategy and managing change, to ensuring compliance and navigating workplace disputes, we provide practical, results-focused guidance combining legal knowledge with people-centred solutions Laura and the team provide a range of services for clients from drafting of employment contracts and employee handbooks, conducting compliance audits and assisting with all employee relations issues including absence management, performance management and investigations.
NFP HR Solutions also provide relevant, accessible, and interactive training solutions, covering all aspects of people management.
Laura and her team regularly attend Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court hearings on behalf of their clients and are experienced in all aspects of employment law.
Laura has a Bachelor of Arts in Human Resource Management from the University of Limerick and a Higher Certificate in Hotel & Catering Management from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.
Prior to joining the company in 2016 Laura worked in various operational management roles in the hotel industry, before specialising in HR Management.
Edel Walsh Coaching and Consulting
Edel Walsh
Edel Walsh is the owner of Edel Walsh Coaching and Consulting.
She specialises in mental health and well-being coaching and workplace well-being coaching.
Edel is also a student mentor and coach supporting professional accountancy students through their exams. Edel supports her student clients get their exams as quickly as possible while maintaining balance and prioritizing their well-being.
Her corporate career started in KPMG where qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. From there, Edel moved into professional education where she held senior lecturer and examinership roles within the professional accountancy bodies.
She specialises in mental health and well-being coaching and workplace well-being coaching.
Edel is also a student mentor and coach supporting professional accountancy students through their exams. Edel supports her student clients get their exams as quickly as possible while maintaining balance and prioritizing their well-being.
Her corporate career started in KPMG where qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. From there, Edel moved into professional education where she held senior lecturer and examinership roles within the professional accountancy bodies.