Muireann Ryan is an experienced transformation leader, management consultant, and leadership educator with over 20 years of industry expertise delivering large‑scale organisational change across global, highly regulated, and complex environments. As a Director of Management Consulting, she leads global business transformation initiatives that support senior leaders in achieving strategic, operational, and cultural change outcomes. Muireann brings deep, practical experience of navigating multi‑stakeholder environments, influencing C‑suite decision‑making, and delivering sustainable transformation programmes across commercial, scientific, operational, and pharmaceutical domains.

Alongside her consulting work, Muireann is an experienced executive lecturer at Griffith College Dublin, teaching on MSc modules including Strategic Leadership, Change Management, and Big Data Analysis, as well as leadership‑focused programmes in pharmaceutical business operations. She also contributes as a leadership mentor with UCD Michael Smurfit Business School’s Global Leadership Development Programme and Mentor Her, supporting emerging leaders to build confidence, capability, and strategic impact.

Background spans senior transformation roles in multinational organisations including Novartis, Uniphar Group, Kent Athlone Pharma Group, and United Drug Group. Her work has included driving culture and organisational effectiveness programmes, leading market‑entry and commercialisation strategies, building new business units, designing and executing change methodologies, and influencing industry‑wide strategic development. She brings rich experience in organisational behaviour, leadership development, coaching, and talent growth—ensuring her facilitation is grounded in both theory and lived executive practice.

Her academic grounding includes an NFQ Level 9 Master’s in Business Leadership and Management Practice, postgraduate qualifications in Organisational Change & Transformation, Finance, and Strategy & Growth (UCD Smurfit), and advanced qualifications in training, L&D, coaching, and professional facilitation.

With her extensive leadership, consulting, and education experience, Muireann brings an impactful blend of strategic insight, transformation expertise, and people‑centred leadership to the Professional Diploma in Leading Change & Transformation, ensuring participants gain practical tools, critical thinking, and confidence to lead effective organisational change.​