As a writer, speaker, facilitator and consultant, she draws on her professional, educational and personal experience to connect with her audience, using neuroscience to enhance the learning experience across a range of topics. With a BSc in Psychology from Dublin City University, she began her career in neuropsychology as a technician in a start-up. Áine worked with clientele from the clinical pop
ulation as well as peak performers, working through a program focused on training the brain to encourage behavioural change. She then made the jump to the corporate world by joining the People Operations EMEA Team at Facebook. While focusing on the employee experience in her Human Resources role, Áine got involved in company culture through the Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities, in particular the Differently Abled ERG. With disability, mental health and neurodiversity the group’s core pillars, Áine joined the Differently Abled ERG committee and subsequently became Co-Lead due to her interest and education in these areas and her own affiliation with the group. Alongside her professional career, she decided to follow her passion and further her educational qualifications and graduated with distinction from the MSc in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health from King’s College London. ERGs introduced Áine to a new lens to look at mental health through, focusing on diversity of thought and emotional inclusion. This further fuelled her passion for the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for all people in the employee population. She was inspired to begin her consultancy career in Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging and use her understanding of neuroscience and psychology to drive for greater inclusion across these topics, focusing on key pieces around mental wellbeing and neuropsychology as enablers of deep learning and behavioural change. Since doing so, Áine has continued her professional development and become an accredited Facet 5 practitioner as part of her journey to becoming a coaching psychologist.
Áine is Founder and Principal Consultant of AM Learning, where her work focuses on Neuropsychological Education in Business, using neuroscience and psychology in the Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging space. Áine’s unique approach emphasis on keeping mentally healthy as a key factor in this journey for all, building from the inner work of self-care to the outer work of allyship and empathetic company culture. Alongside her own consultancy work, Áine works as a consultant with New Inclusion Consultancy group, as an also engages with projects focused on Neurodiversity Education and Neuroinclusion with US based company ‘Uptimize’.
Áine lives in Wexford, Ireland with her partner and their cat, Floki, who frequently makes appearances in her virtual sessions!
