Fergal Brophy

DRIVEN BY PASSION

30 YEARS OF INNOVATION, CREATIVITY & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Fergal held brand & NPD roles with Kellogg's, Nivea and Pepsi before co-founding and ultimately selling Open, a fintech business in 2014. He then joined UCD Innovation Academy where he facilitates high-impact in-person and virtual innovation programmes for ESB and EXL amongst others.

Fergal’s corporate clients include PayPal, Linkedin, Adobe, Roche, Bayer, PwC, BDO, World Rugby, BT, Vodafone, William Fry, Colgate-Palmolive, Irish Distillers, Glanbia, Primark, Glen Dimplex, MetLife, Bank of Ireland.

His public sector clients include EIT Health, Enterprise Ireland, An Garda Siochana, NTMA, Environmental Protection Agency, Competition & Consumer Protection Commission.

He facilitates innovation on Go Global 4 Growth, a Government-sponsored management development programme for high potential SMEs.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

“The PwC Innovation Challenge efficiently combined 4 instructional emails, 16 bite-sized learning videos and 4 short in-person coaching engagements. The experience was a wonderful opportunity for our Interns to engage in critical thinking and complex problem-solving on important challenges in our business. Participants nurtured their empathy, creativity, communication and collaboration.”

Sarah Madigan
Graduate Recruitment Manager, PwC

Fergal designed & delivered an on-demand Creativity & Innovation module for our MSc. FNH (Online). The feedback from our virtual learners has been overwhelmingly positive. They integrate material from Food & Nutrition sources with design thinking to solve problems on a range of real-world issues. Fergal encouraged and supported our online community with empathy and kindness

Dr. Aideen McKevitt
Programme Manager, MSc Food, Nutrition Health, UCD School of Agriculture

Fergal is a dynamic and highly experienced facilitator and educator...his grasp of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship comes from his own first hand experience in the business world, combined with his extensive network of fellow entrepreneurs and innovators. This one has genuinely walked the walk and is now sharing his learning in an exciting and creative way.

Professor Suzi Jarvis
Founding Director, UCD Innovation Academy

“We had a brilliant live online innovation experience with Fergal. His enthusiasm for creative problem solving and imaginative use of video conferencing tech made for a super learning and networking event....the group were just as engaged as we would be face to face.”

Amy Synott
Learning Solutions Project Manager, Novartis

In 17 years of working at Amdocs, the Sprint that Fergal facilitated was the best day I have had in terms of fun, team bonding and learning about how to innovate. He creates a safe psychological space for problem-solving and pushes teams to think differently, prototype and test ideas and ultimately outperform expectations.

Dan Palmer
Global Business Lead - GL, Amdocs (leading global software provider)

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