About Us

Dr. Melissa Sayer – President

Melissa is the Managing Partner and one of the co-founders of 6 Team Conditions. She specializes in working with Senior Leadership Teams, and is an Adjunct Professor at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin.  

Melissa’s role as Managing Partner is to provide leadership for the scaling of the organization and to partner with client organizations to shape organizational development solutions. She has significant global experience of working with teams across a broad range of industries. She combines her early commercial background with expert scholar-practitioner knowledge and experience when working with executive teams. Melissa works in collaboration with clients across a diverse range of industry sectors and adds value at a strategic level by focusing on the team effectiveness of C-Suite, Senior Leadership and Mission Critical teams as the means to deliver organizational change, learning, and constructive behavioural change. Sector clients include; property, finance, pharma, technology, consumer goods, energy, professional services, healthcare, textiles and education.

Melissa began her career 25 years ago as a chartered surveyor in a top firm in London, gaining considerable experience in the client relationship management of key accounts and leading multi-disciplinary teams. She accelerated quickly and joined the senior management team responsible for a department of 135 people dispersed nationally, with responsibilities for a sizable investment property portfolio. You can learn more about Melissa at http://www.6TeamConditions.com and at linkedin.com/in/melissajsayer

Shashi Sopirala – Chief Operating Officer

Shashi, originally from India, has made Ireland his home for over two decades, crafting a career spanning 25 years across an array of industries. His professional journey encompasses pivotal senior management and leadership roles in Technology, Telecoms, Investment Banking, Healthcare, and Pharmaceuticals. Currently at the helm of a Consulting and Coaching company based in Ireland, Shashi extends its services throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Advocating introspection’s power, Shashi underscores its role in personal growth, liberation, and fostering global harmony. As a transformational enterprise coach well-versed in Scaled Agile methodologies, Coactive, and Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC), he guides individuals toward personal and professional development. Embracing the role of a Sherpa Coach, he navigates life’s challenges alongside others, enabling them to uncover hidden potential and conquer their personal ‘Everest.’

Beyond his professional pursuits, Shashi cherishes adventure and challenge. Skydiving, conquering the highest peaks, cycling, and even embarking on Antarctic expeditions fuel his explorative spirit.

A staunch advocate for diversity and inclusion, Shashi actively amplifies diverse voices, ensuring equitable representation for all perspectives. As Chief Operating Officer, he strives to fortify administrative and operational functions, overseeing internal affairs, finance, accounting, and IT systems management.

Shashi’s educational journey encompasses two postgraduate degrees—a Master of Computer Applications and a Master of Business Administration—coupled with a bachelor’s in Accounting and Business Law. This diverse educational background enriches his leadership approach, blending business proficiency with a profound understanding of human behaviour and organisational dynamics, shaping him into a multifaceted and empathetic leader.

David O’Grady – Director, Learning and Development

David O’Grady is an Executive Coach, Team Facilitator, and Founder of David O’Grady Coaching, a practice focused on helping organisations translate behavioural insight into practical, sustained change.
With over 20 years’ experience in senior HR and leadership roles—including with global organisations such as 3M and HubSpot—David brings a grounded, systems-aware understanding of organisational life. He is Ireland’s only dual partner for Everything DiSC® and Insights Discovery, supporting HR and L&D teams, coaches, and consultants to become certified and to embed these frameworks effectively across leadership and team development.

David specialises in behavioural integration and rapid team alignment. His signature Fast-Forming Teams™ system helps teams establish strong behavioural foundations in their first six weeks, ensuring early momentum compounds rather than drifts. His work draws on a broad psychometric toolkit, including Everything DiSC®, Insights Discovery, CliftonStrengths®, Hogan, and The Five Behaviors®, to create shared language, clarity, and alignment.

A recipient of the ICF Ireland Rising Star Coaching Award, David holds an MSc in Work and Organisational Behaviour, where he was awarded the Outstanding Scholar Award. He is known for a coaching style that is calm, structured, and human, building the trust and behavioural credibility required for sustained performance.

Egle Holton – Director of Partnerships & Community

Egle Holton is a Team and Leadership Development Strategist with 20 years of experience in Business and HR Operations across the tech sector, combined with over a decade as an ICF Accredited Coach and Google PeopleDev faculty member.

At Google, Egle has held multiple progressive roles across People Operations, L&D, and Talent Acquisition, where she designed and delivered coaching programmes, led the Google Coaching Fundamentals initiative, and organised a global symposium for a community of 2,000+ internal coaches. Currently, she leads AI strategy implementation across HR Business Operations at Google — translating emerging technology into practical, human-centred operational change.

In her role as Director of Partnerships & Community, Egle is passionate about strengthening the coaching profession in Ireland and beyond — building meaningful connections between ICF members, organisations, and the broader community that make coaching culture thrive. She believes in bringing coaching communities together at scale, creating ripple effects of impact through engaged interconnected networks. She brings this vision to life through the Team Coaching Circle, which she founded — now a vibrant, active community of 850+ members spanning coaches, leaders, and facilitators from around the world.

Fred Wilson – Director Of Membership

Fred is a leadership and transition coach fueled by curiosity and grounded in global experience. Having lived and worked across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, he brings a cross-cultural lens to leadership, growth, and change.

Fred spent 15 years building and leading programs in the environmental NGO sector, advancing organizational growth and large-scale initiatives. After relocating to Cairo, Egypt, in 2015, he shifted his focus toward global HR and began coaching clients navigating career transition.

He began formal coach training with iPEC in 2022 to deepen his practice and strengthen the coaching communities around him. Shortly thereafter, he returned to Washington, D.C., to continue his work in HR and joined the U.S. Department of State’s Leadership and Management School as an adjunct coach.

Fred holds an MBA from American University and a BA from the University of Missouri–Columbia. He is also a Certified Scrum Master and holds a Diversity and Inclusion certificate from Cornell University.

A recent arrival to Dublin, Fred still considers New Orleans home. In his spare time, you may find him in search of live music and record stores or exploring the outdoors by bike trail or with his pup on a hiking trail.

Lindsay Brady – Director of Marketing and Communications

Lindsay Brady is a Life and Leadership Coach, a certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator, and the Founder of The Big Life Project. With 20 years of experience leading fast-moving global organisations at LinkedIn, Lindsay brings the perfect blend of strategic thinking and hands on execution.

Lindsay’s corporate career includes over a decade working at LinkedIn Dublin, where worked from data analyst to a highly respected Global Analytics Director. During her time at LinkedIn, Lindsay was recognised for her exceptional people leadership, her ability to bring teams together and thrive during moments of change and her seamless approach to leading big scale impactful projects.

In 2023, Lindsay pivoted from her corporate career to launch The Big Life Project, a practice dedicated to supporting individuals and organizations navigating significant moments of change. Lindsay is best known for her warm authenticity and her ability to unlock growth in her clients through curiosity, play and exploration, in place of perfection and “shoulds”. 

Lindsay holds a First Class Hons degree in Applied Computational Linguistics from DCU. She is a committed volunteer career coach and mentor with Work Equal, supporting those returning to the workforce after employment gaps. She is passionate about demystifying coaching and making Ireland a global leader in the future of coaching. You will find her posting on socials and speaking at events with a consistent energy of real talk and practical, actionable tips. You can join her 3k followers on LinkedIn & growing audience on Instagram.

Susan Creedon – Associate Board Member

Susan Creedon is a qualified Executive Coach (2013) and Personal Development & Coaching Tutor (2014). With some 30 years’ experience leading strategic communications in fast-paced organisations, she has supported CEOs and leadership teams through periods of growth – and change.

Her insight into organisational dynamics and the opportunities and pressures they create underpins her focus to support individuals to stay strong and realise potential that might go untapped.

Throughout her career, including employee engagement leadership roles with PwC, Microsoft and Sodexo, Susan has contributed to internal coaching programmes, supporting individuals at all experience levels and across geographies. Her coaching work spans leadership development, career “fitness”, communication effectiveness, personal brand, mindset and resilience. Susan has a down-to-earth style and focuses on coaching for positive effect on the performance of individuals, and in turn organisational success.

In 2025, Susan established her coaching practice, marking her move fully into coaching with individuals and organisations.

Drawing on her experience in Communications, Organisational Transformation, Coaching and Training, Susan has a uniquely integrated understanding of people – and supports individuals to think clearly, see and make the most of opportunities and adapt confidently to change. She strongly believes that, because self-efficacy underpins success, coaching should be a mainstream benefit available to all employees to support their personal development and build career agility and resilience for today’s evolving workplaces.

She is currently undertaking an MSc in Coaching at University College Cork (UCC), where her research will explore the impact of coaching interventions and managers’ emotional intelligence in hybrid working environments.

Colette Henry – Associate Board Member

Colette Henry is a Leadership Coach, Team Facilitator and Strategy Consultant. She builds on a 20 career in leadership roles in the Creative Communications, Corporate and Social Impact sectors. 

She led Global Communications Strategy with multi-disciplinary agile teams to develop brand campaigns and create internal organisational change. She has designed consumer and stakeholder insights and innovation projects to steer C-Suite decisions and new product development.  This on-the-ground industry experience has given her deep insights into the different worlds, from global tech and finance, to national governments, local retail and NGOs.  This all helps her to understand and empathise with clients from diverse backgrounds.

She trained as a Coach with Animas in London in 2017, and has built her practice working with leaders and organisations driven to make a positive impact.  She draws on different coaching tools, and her coaching style moves between structured and goal-oriented, to more empathetic and energised, depending on the client’s needs.  

She holds a first class Masters in Social Cognition from University College London where she focused on social neuroscience, behavioural economics and cognitive psychology. She conducted a meta-analysis of cognition and meditation, and ran experiments to explore how mindfulness influences creative thinking. She also holds a Masters in Advertising from TU Dublin where she won the prestigious Conlon Memorial Medal as well as a recent PostGrad from DCU in Sustainability Management. She is on the Board of Directors of Leave No Trace, an environmental organisation, and is an avid dancer and musician.