Simple solutions for your organisation
Dermot Ryan founded Dermot Ryan Advisory to draw on his 25 years of working in senior advisory roles to assist organisations meet their goals effectively.
Dermot’s key offering is ‘getting the job done’. He has unique experience in working with strategic and visionary leaders and organisations, but having the ultimate responsibility to ensure delivery and implementation. If your organisation struggles to implement big ideas, Dermot Ryan Advisory can help you turn those ideas into action.
Among the services Dermot offers are:
Advisory Services and Organisational Support
Does your organisation have a fantastic Board with great ideas but struggles to achieve implementation? Strong Boards are made up of key players from industry and the public sectors. But what happens after your Board meeting when your Board members return to their day jobs?
Dermot Ryan Advisory can ensure that your Board decisions are implemented, supporting your Chair, Officers and sub-groups, and ensuring a culture of implementation is brought to your organisation. Working with our trusted partners or your own preferred partners, we can also provide the financial, auditing and accounting support you need.
Governance
Whether you operate a not-for-profit, a trade organisation or a local sports club, proper governance is not just a legal requirement, it is key to your culture and success. Strong governance is a reflection of your values, and shows you are accountable to your stakeholders, your clients and to the wider community. Dermot Ryan has worked in a number of regulatory environments over 25 years and can help you not just meet your statutory requirements, but build a culture of accountability, transparency and continuous improvement.
Facilitation and Training
Dermot Ryan is an experienced facilitator and trainer, with qualifications from the Irish Institute of Training and Development and the Irish Management Institute. Dermot is an approved facilitator for the Washington DC based National Democratic Institute, and has delivered training and facilitation solutions to groups in Australia, the USA and Romania, as well as in Ireland.
An approved trainer with Women for Election, he has designed and delivered a training programme for the organisation on the topic of ‘Running for Seanad Éireann’.
Dermot also delivers bespoke media and public affairs training packages in his Associate role with Alice PR & Events.
Consultation and Stakeholder Engagement
Are you bringing your key stakeholders with you as you attempt to achieve your goals? Leaving your stakeholders behind - be it your members, customers and/or staff team - is a mistake you can’t afford to make. Dermot Ryan has designed and implemented stakeholder engagement solutions for clients over many years, including an award-winning community consultation process in inner city Dublin in the early 2000s, Dermot works with a number of partners, including the project management consultancy M.CO, to deliver large scale consultation and stakeholder engagement solutions.
Conference and Events Management
Dermot Ryan Advisory can manage all of your Board and member event needs. From Board meetings to international conferences, we offer a solution for you. How you run your events reflects on your organisation. From timely notification and effective registration processes to the quality of your speaker lineup and technology needs, Dermot Ryan Advisory can deliver it all. For larger scale events, we work with our key partners Alice PR & Events, an award winning agency specialising in event management and delivery.
Online Solutions
We are adept at delivering online solutions through a range of video conferencing platforms and other tools. Covid-19 has challenged all of us to move online, and nothing frustrates your organisation more than poorly organised online events. There is no reason why your webinar, presentation, meeting, training event or facilitated session cannot be delivered to the highest standards.
Communications, including Digital / Social Media
Are you communicating with your members in the right way? Not enough emails? Too many emails? Do you have a social media profile and should you have one? We can work with you to make sure you are speaking with your members and your stakeholders in the right way. We design and implement simple solutions, not communications for communications sake. Dermot Ryan Advisory is adept at managing existing websites and can also oversee the design of a website to meet your needs.
Additional Services
Dermot Ryan Advisory can provide you with a number of additional services through partner companies. These include:
Print and digital design, including website services
Public relations and public affairs
Accounting and auditing
Leadership development