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Kirstin O'Donovan

Professional Coach (ICF PCC)

Verified by Kyan

“Real change starts with the person, not the strategy”

  • Stress
  • Personal growth & self-awareness
  • Self-esteem & confidence

Online

Session languages: English

About Kirstin

I work with entrepreneurs, founders, professionals, and business owners who want greater clarity, stronger focus, and a calmer way to perform. The day is running them. The calendar is full, the important work keeps slipping, and a week that starts with intent ends in other people’s priorities. Habits are not sticking. They want to manage stress and feel more in control without giving up ambition. They are tired of running on willpower.

I support individuals seeking greater clarity, balance, and meaningful impact in their personal and professional lives. My work focuses on mindset, habits, and self-awareness as foundations for lasting change. I help clients build confidence, strengthen inner alignment, and lead with intention. My style is calm, direct, and reflective. Sustainable productivity, as I have come to see it, is mindset, habits, decision-making, energy, self-leadership, and the systems around how someone works and lives.

I am originally from South Africa, and I have been based in Spain since 2007.

How Kirstin works

A system will not hold if the mindset behind it is overwhelmed or working against itself. My coaching is direct and warm. I do not use a generic framework. The work is built around who you are, what your days look like, and the accountability and systems that fit that life.

The path I lay out has four parts. First I diagnose, with a productivity audit and a look at the workflow, so we find the bottleneck rather than the surface symptom. Then I design habits, routines, and the shape of the week around how you actually think and work. Then we create the change: personalised coaching on the patterns that get in the way, and a turn from insight into action. Then we sustain it, with weekly coaching, accountability, and implementation support.

The focus can be habits, stress, productivity, emotional mastery, or something else you name. What I aim for is greater clarity, meaningful shifts in habits, and a way of working that feels calmer and easier to maintain.

What happens in our first session?

Our first conversation is a focused 1:1 to map where you are, where you want to go, and what is actually in the way. There is no pressure and no pitch. We use it to see whether coaching with me is the right next step. If we continue, we start with an audit of your habits, workflow, and time, then a debrief, then weekly private sessions. We set the focus and rhythm together.

Who do you work with best?

I work with entrepreneurs, founders, professionals, and business owners. They are ambitious people whose output, decisions, and energy matter. They come with overwhelm, reactive days, habits that do not stick, stress, and the wish for a calmer way to perform without dropping ambition. The work is personal and professional: mindset, habits, self-awareness, confidence, and work-life balance.

Serves

  • Professionals & leaders

What do you bring to your work?

My philosophy is simple: real change starts with the person, not the strategy. I wrote Tapping Into Neuro-Productivity, and I created the Productivity Masterclass and the Self Love Masterclass.

What experience do you have?

I have coached founders and professionals, and I have worked with Tony Robbins, OYNB, and BetterUp. Tapping Into Neuro-Productivity was published in 2019.

Focus areas

  • Stress
  • Personal growth & self-awareness
  • Self-esteem & confidence
  • Work-life balance
  • Resilience & mental fitness

Checked by Kyan · Oct 2026

  • Professional Certified Coach (PCC), term March 2026–March 2029

    International Coaching Federation

    Credential checked by Kyan · Oct 2026

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Training and qualifications

Further training

  • InnerLifeSkills Master CoachInnerLifeSkills
  • InnerLifeSkills Executive CoachInnerLifeSkills
  • Certified Business CoachWorld Coach Institute
  • Robbins-Madanes Trained Coach (Core 100)Robbins-Madanes Training

Memberships

  • International Coaching Federation (ICF)

Education, further training and memberships as Kirstin listed them. Kyan hasn’t checked these.

Sessions and prices

Fees on request

  • Coaching session

    60 min · Online

    A one-to-one coaching session by video. Fees on request.

  • Introductory call

    15 min · Online

    A short first conversation to see whether we are a good fit.

Practical details

Session languages
English“I work in English.”
Meeting formats
Online“Sessions booked here are online, by video. I also see people in person in Palma.”
Experience
10 years

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