Executive coaching, business auditing & operational consulting for small and medium business owners.
Clarity under pressure. Decisions that hold up. Outcomes that endure.
Cor Consultancy is the practice of Cahal O'Reilly — a management consultant built for the moments when the stakes are high and the path forward isn't obvious yet.
With a track record across sport, the British Army and business, Cahal has spent his career leading change in environments where clear thinking is non-negotiable. He partners with small and medium business owners to diagnose root causes, design practical strategy, and stay the course through delivery.
His reputation is built on the hard part: making sound decisions when information is incomplete, the room is anxious, and the easy answers are wrong. That capacity for cool-headed judgement under stress sits at the centre of every engagement — operational turnaround, live business crisis, or coaching a founder through their hardest quarter.
Cahal made a full recovery from a catastrophic accident — hit by a car at 70mph while cycling London to Dublin. Four years and multiple operations later, recover he did. His story became part of the MIB national campaign on uninsured driving.
Every engagement is shaped to the client — but each one starts with one of these three.
For founders and senior leaders.
One-to-one work with founders and senior leaders carrying the weight of the business. A confidential thinking partner for crisis decisions, difficult conversations, and the calls that don't fit anywhere else.
A forensic look at how the business actually operates — finances, processes, team, market — to surface the underlying constraint that everything else depends on. Findings written in plain English.
Hands-on engagement to design and deliver the change — from breaking through a growth ceiling to steering a business back from the edge of liquidation, or standing in as interim operating lead.
“I would have no hesitation in employing him in an executive capacity again. In my view he combines the forensic skills of a barrister with the decisiveness of a surgeon. He is a good man to have by your side in a crisis”
Each engagement was shaped to the client. The thread is the same: clarity, then delivery.
A live crisis, an operational puzzle, or a quieter sense that something isn't working — a 30-minute call usually clarifies whether I can help.