Innovation, Strategy and Change Specialist | Consultant & Founder | Board Director | Workplace Diversity Advocate | Regional Development Advocate | Speaker | Facilitator

Claire Quigley is your innovation partner with a passion for driving sustainable change. She founded Launchpad9 out of a commitment to real progress and a drive to challenge the status quo. With Claire, you are guaranteed that she won’t take a ‘cookie cutter’ approach to your work. 

As a well-regarded innovation consultant and coach, Claire's approach to strategy development and execution is holistic, helping leaders and their organisations leverage networks, balance customer and business value, and embrace new technologies like GenAI. 

Hailing from Kilkenny, Ireland, Claire has over twenty years of experience in innovation strategy development, from high tech startups to economic bodies to large corporates, enhancing their strategic and operational outcomes. 

In prior roles, Claire worked with cutting edge high-tech start-ups and European research commercialisation centre in Ireland, including an acquisition journey with Red Hat.

Her other hats include, and Board Member of Hunter iF - a for-purpose organisation that strives to connect innovation with opportunity for regional development.

Claire is a proud judge for the Annual National #tech diversity awards which celebrates organisations that champion DE+I in creating a thriving technology workforce.

At the heart of Claire’s work is a deep commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion as cornerstones for regional development and innovation. Her approach views DEI as more than policies, but as essential strategies that fuel growth, creativity, and social advancement.

Championing these values, Claire seeks to transform communities, elevate marginalised voices, and pave the way for a more equitable and positive future for all.

Claire finds balance and inspiration living with her eclectic family of humans, horses, and dogs.

Digital & Data Transformation | Executive Coach | Human-Focused Strategist

Susanne blends her natural intuition and humanistic approach with extensive international experience to empower organisations through digital and data transformation. 

A social enabler, humorist, and empath, she excels in coaching and consulting roles across corporates, SMEs, and startups on three continents. 

Her focus extends beyond technology to the people and culture that drive transformation, emphasising that the true essence of change lies within human dynamics and organisational culture.

Conscious Leaders Facilitator & Coach | Fiction Writer | Communication Navigator

Ellie has been immersed in organisational development, leadership development, and influencing change for over 15 years and is fascinated with the human experience and helping people to make intentional changes.

Put simply, Ellie's purpose is to support people to get out of their own way. To gain clarity and perspective so they can consciously show up with presence, clear intention and accountability.

She uses Conscious Leaders Circles (small group coaching) because change, according to our brains, takes small manageable steps, building and stretching over time. Ellie is an expert at creating the cognitive capacity necessary to unlock capability and potential in people at all levels of the organisation. Supporting humans to thrive at work (and everywhere else in life) is her jam!

Regenerative Leadership | Change & Transformation | Equine Assisted Leadership

Francesca Varney is a seasoned Leadership Development Consultant with over 15 years of experience across Australia and Europe. Originally from Germany, she holds a bachelor's degree in business management and a master's degree in counselling. A lifelong learner herself, she has also trained in adult development coaching, agile, change management and – wait for it - equine assisted therapy.

With a modern toolbox of facilitation, advisory, and coaching skills, Francesca specialises in driving leadership growth and team evolution through the Vertical Leadership Development approach, fostering lasting learning that enhances capacity alongside capability.