Act Now: Achieve through Coaching & Training

About Act Now

We are a company dedicated to helping individuals and companies to maximise their untapped potential and achieve success in a variety of areas. This is done through powerful coaching techniques on an individual and group basis and with a range of quality and highly practical seminars and training programmes.

Our services are designed to provide the clarity and skills required to help people grow. Even more importantly we motivate people to take the actions and make the changes necessary to achieve success in their business and life goals.

Act Now is a FAS approved training organisation. We have also received FETAC Accreditation. Therefore we offer a range of programmes that will lead to FETAC awards from level 3 to level 6.

Profile of Mick Rock

Mick is a qualified Executive and Life Coach and a Motivational Speaker who has helped hundreds of people to set up their own businesses, obtain greater work life balance and achieve a wide variety of goals. He is extremely passionate about his role in helping people achieve success in life and business. And with over 20 years business experience, he understands the increasing challenges that people in business face.

Before setting up Act Now he held various management roles including 5 years as Training and Development Manager within the financial services sector. In this role he was responsible for the training and development needs of 300 staff. He applies his consulting and coaching skills in working with people at all levels to develop within their chosen career, set up their own businesses, improve key relationships and achieve a wide variety of business and personal goals. He has researched Personal Development topics for a number of years and has completed and delivered many programmes in this area during that time.

Mick is an accomplished public speaker. He is an experienced member of Toastmasters International, an organisation promoting the development of public speaking and communication skills. Mick has competed in and won a large number of speech competitions run by this organisation. These successes include reaching the top 5 speakers from Ireland and the U.K in their humorous speech contest. He delivers talks to various organisations on topics relating to Personal Development.

Mick also holds a range of professional qualifications including a diploma in Executive Business and Life Coaching accredited with the Life and Business Coaching Association of Ireland (L.B.C.A.I.) and a Certificate in Training and Development from NUI Maynooth. He is an approved FAS trainer

Mick is also an Internationally Certified user of Thomas International’s Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) and its related instruments.

His business qualifications include Fellowships of both the Chartered Insurance Institute and the Pensions Management Institute in London. He is also a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Pension Managers.