Niamh (‘Neev’) McElwain

Coach and Facilitator, EMEA and APAC

Niamh brings more than 20 years of international experience in the field of education and learning & development. She spent 16 years at Google, working in Learning & Development based in Ireland, Poland and the US.  Niamh specializes in topics such as inclusive leadership, impostor syndrome, wellbeing & career development. As a learning designer and facilitator, Niamh uses her background in music & theater, to infuse playfulness, improv, and dynamism into her facilitation style, which energizes participants and ensures engagement!

In her time at Google, Niamh designed many acclaimed development programs including Stretch, a women’s leadership program, which over 8,000 women globally have attended to date. This sparked the creation of #iamremarkable, an initiative that celebrates and empowers under-represented groups. Niamh was also one of the early founders of g2g, a peer-to-peer learning program, which currently powers 80% of learning programs globally at Google, with an extended faculty of over 10,000 employees who teach, share and learn from each other.

Niamh graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a Bachelor in Music Education, and earned her MBA from Reims Management School, France. She is a CPCC certified executive coach, and an MBTI and Immunity to Change certified facilitator. Niamh worked in the Middle East and the Caribbean as an orchestral director before entering the corporate world. In her spare time, Niamh loves hiking, listening to podcasts and being outdoors.

"Niamh was knowledgeable and successfully created meaningful group discussion/engagement with the [workshop] attendees. I learned from the lecture and learned even more from the discussions."

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"Niamh was knowledgeable and successfully created meaningful group discussion/engagement with the [workshop] attendees. I learned from the lecture and learned even more from the discussions."

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