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The coach

About

Who is behind Chief Executives — Linus Murphy, executive coach and former CEO.

Chief Executives is a booking agency for C-suite coaching. The featured coach is Linus Murphy. Facts below are taken from his published biography on linusmurphy.com/about. This page does not invent board seats, coaching credentials, or a client roster.

Coach

Linus Murphy — executive coach, former CEO, and Irish national champion cyclist.

He helps CEOs and C-suite teams turn vision into consistent execution. He has spent 25 years as a multi-country CEO, scaling businesses across more than 20 countries, and later turned that operating experience into executive coaching.

He describes the work as confidential, practical, and without fluff: an outside perspective for leaders who already carry the P&L.

Career highlights

Published on linusmurphy.com:

Years Role
2006–2019 CEO, Keystone Education Group. Grew the firm from a start-up to an education-technology company serving 4,500+ institutions, with published annual growth of about 45%.
2001–2005 Group CEO, Creditsafe. Expanded the business-information provider internationally; the published biography cites a 48% yearly revenue lift.
1995–2001 Divisional CEO, Rentokil Initial Nordics. Published figures: revenue from €30 million to €280 million over six years.
1992–1995 Sales Director, Rentokil Initial Ireland.

Alongside those roles he has lectured at European business schools on innovation and entrepreneurship. The published biography does not name those schools here, so they are not named here.

Credentials, as published

  • Executive and leadership coach, trained in advanced coaching methodologies. No ICF level or certificate number is published on the source page, so none is claimed here.
  • Guest lecturer on leadership and entrepreneurship at European business schools.
  • Keynote speaker at international leadership summits — events are not named on the source page.
  • Winner of the Irish National Cycling Championship; competed internationally.

His published coaching model is Inside-Out Leadership™: identity, beliefs, values, rules, emotions, skills, communication, relationships, environment, goals, and actions.

Location

Dubai, UAE. A street address is not published.

What this page will not do

It will not invent testimonials, client logos, faculty, prices, or case-study results.

Next step

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