I’ve spent my career working with leadership, teams, and on delivery, often operating as a trusted second-in-command and sounding board to senior leaders, while staying closely connected to the experience of management teams and employees.

Over my career, I’ve come to deeply understand:
• How leadership pressure shows up in behaviour and impacts results
• Why unclear roles strongly drain performance and morale - and how to fix this
• How strong employees struggle inside poorly defined systems
• Why misalignment drains businesses of time, energy, and talent
• How emotional intelligence directly affects commercial outcomes
• What happens when responsibility is carried by too few people for too long

Ask Orla exists because I’ve seen how often organisations focus on strategy, targets, and outputs, without giving enough attention to the people dynamics that ultimately determine whether any of it succeeds.