Join our networking event: ‘On the Job: Creating a career to love’ in Cork City

If you were to write your fantasy LinkedIn profile, what would it say? What would you do? And what sort of side-hustles, initiatives, charity work and boards would you wish to align with?

Now, make that a reality. At a very special IMAGE Business Club Live, we’ll be bringing Career Psychologist Sinead Brady to Cork for a night that will be sure to get you thinking… and planning for next year and beyond.

Sinead has helped women turn the switch in identifying just how to create a lifelong career profile that grows and develops with us, making space for the family years, as well as how to accelerate when the moment is right. Sinead’s style is smart, empathetic and wise, offering plenty that can be easily implemented in carving a rewarding future.

We’ll also speak with a panel of outstanding female entrepreneurs and leaders about how they evolved their careers and took the brave steps involved in creating businesses and a way of working that has become truly fulfilling, as well as successful. Our panel will feature fashion designer and retailer Sinead Keary; Lucy Hagerty, founder of La Bougie candles and fragrance; and Evelyn Moynihan, CEO of the Kilkenny Design, in conversation with IMAGE contributing editor Melanie Morris. All women are truly best-in-class (as well as being of Cork heritage!), and we’ll get to learn about some of the key moments and challenges that shaped them for success.

Join us on Tuesday, December 3 at Castlemartyr Resort for prosecco, canapés, networking and a chance to evolve into 2025. We’ll also have gifts for all attendees and a chance to meet the IMAGE team and our speakers.

If you’d like to extend your evening, Castlemartyr Resort is offering a special B&B rate of €190 for single occupancy and €210 for double occupancy. Contact reservations at reservations@castlemartyrresort.ie or 021 421 9000, and mention the IMAGE Event to receive your discount.

This event is open to members of the IMAGE Business Club, with limited tickets available to readers on a first-come-first-served basis, priced at €55 each.

Schedule

6pm – 7pm: Network over prosecco and canapés

7pm – 8.30pm: An information conversation with our experts

8.30pm – 9pm: Meet the speakers and network further

Gifts

Each attendee will receive a gorgeous gift bag.

When & Where

When: Tuesday, December 3 at 6pm

Where: Castlemartyr Resort, Castlemartyr, Cork, P25 X300

Tickets

Tickets are priced at €55 incl.VAT, however, IMAGE Business Club members receive access to one COMPLIMENTARY ticket. (Join the club for €243 ex.VAT now to claim your complimentary ticket!). Each attendee will enjoy drinks, delicious canapés and a gorgeous gift bag.

Places to this event are available on a first-come first-serve basis and are limited. 

Please book early to avoid disappointment. If you cannot attend the event, we kindly ask for a minimum of 48 hours’ notice.   

Meet the speakers

Sinead Brady, Career Psychologist and Founder of A Career to Love

Sinéad Brady is Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer at &SineadBrady™. She lives in Cavan and works globally as a speaker and workplace consultant. As a British Psychological Society-accredited psychologist, she has worked in law, education, and industry over her 20-year career. Through her work, she advocates for an ideal workplace that is fair, equitable and human-centred, one where everyone has the opportunity to thrive, flourish and progress.

A regular keynote speaker and corporate trainer, her areas of specialism include the future of work, friction-free flexibility™, managing boundaries between work and life, cognitive triggers, sustainable career development, and returners to the workplace. Her thought-challenging and progressive style recently earned her a place on stage at Google’s The Compass Leadership Summit.

She contributes widely to media on the world of work, careers and leadership including The Marian Finucane Show, The Last Word with Matt Cooper, The Nicky Byrne Show on 2FM and Jen Zamprelli on 2FM. She also regularly contributes opinion pieces to The Sunday Business Post, The Irish Times, Irish Tatler, IMAGE.ie, The Irish Independent and others.

Her clients include AIB, Bank of Ireland, New Ireland Assurance, MUM Talks, AVIVA, All 4 One, The Institute of Bankers, Accountancy Ireland, University College Cork, University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, Skillsnet Ireland, IBEC, GE Capital, LinkedIn, McDonald’s, Ogilvy, Accenture and Google.

Sinead Keary, Founder, Designer and CEO, Sinead Keary The Label

Sinead Keary is the Founder of Sinead Keary the Label, a luxury fashion label of capsule wardrobe essentials. Sinead kickstarted her career as an in-store personal shopper across luxury retail department stores and brands, before setting up her own personal shopping business.

She works with women all around the country to help them build their own capsule wardrobes, while finding confidence and fun with their style in the process. It was the combination of Sinead’s time working with global luxury fashion brands and spending time in women’s own wardrobes that the idea for her eponymous fashion brand was born. Sinead Keary the label removes the “wardrobe full of clothes but nothing to wear” conundrum.

Lucy Hagerty, Founder and Perfumer, La Bougie

Having previously had a career as a royal chef in the UK, Lucy Hagerty now has an equally creative one as an expert perfumer. After she married an Irish man, had children and settled in Kinsale after a life abroad, she set out to create the perfect candle. The perfume world is a closely guarded one, but she spent seven years learning its secrets and how to create the candles herself.

La Bougie launched in the summer of 2012 in a converted outbuilding on her farm in County Cork, starting with three fragrances which remain as bestsellers to this day. Fast forward to 2024 and you can find these candles being made in a 5,000 sq foot factory in Kinsale by a hardworking and dedicated team, many of whom have been with La Bougie from the start. 2023 saw the opening of their first boutique in Lymington on the south coast of England, which serves the large UK web business and showcases the brand.

Every brand takes a family to raise and La Bougie is very much a family business. Lucy’s husband Peter recently came back out of retirement where he had taken up farming to help run the marketing and financial side of the business. They are helped by their daughter Tabitha who has been in the business since leaving school seven years ago and looks after the 200 stockists across Ireland. This allows Lucy to continue her creative life, launching new perfumes and creating custom fragrances for luxurious properties and Hollywood royalty… and this is where she is at her happiest.

Evelyn Moynihan, CEO, Kilkenny Design

Evelyn Moynihan is the CEO of the Kilkenny Group, champions of premium Irish craft and design, operating across 21 retail outlets and a growing e-commerce site.

Evelyn has worked for Diageo and Musgrave Group in the past and joined Kilkenny Design in 2019, stepping into the role of CEO in April 2021. She oversees all retail, e-commerce, buying, marketing, supply chain, finance and IT operations at the luxury retail group.

Passionate about delivering commercial plans that disrupt the market and deliver growth, Evelyn has a track record in building strong brands, understanding and acting on consumer needs, and leading high-performing cross-functional teams.