Potential Achieved have proven success in chairing boards for a diverse range of clients, helping them find the right people.

Your Application Matters

Even if there is no official shortlisting in your competition the Interview Panel makes assumptions about you, based upon your application form or CV, before they meet you.


Make sure your application or CV shows you at your best.

Whatever your goal is; changing your role, changing your job or changing your approach Potential Achieved can help. Send us an email to schedule a consultation.

Welcome to Potential Achieved

You Can Do It

Our mission at Potential Achieved is to help you realise your potential and develop your career through competency based solutions. We have proven success in assisting clients in advancing onto senior roles. We use a combination of approaches rooted in psychometrics to assist you in being successful in your chosen career, from the initial application right through to the interview process. 


We tailor our solutions to you, as we find the best results can be achieved when your own knowledge and experience is challenged. Our style is very much inquisitive, we use competency-based interviewing scenarios incorporating incisive questioning in order to draw out your skills and realise your own potential.

In addition to our individual career development solutions, we also offer an interview board chairmanship service to companies. We work with multiple clients, including the civil and public sector through the Public Appointments service, and look forward to bringing our experience and expertise to you. Whether you are a private or public sector organisation, we can help you select the most suitable candidates for important roles ensuring a successful future for your company. This service also incorporates change management, preparing yourself and your staff for fundamental changes to the structure of the company.

Data Protection – Potential Achieved are fully GDPR compliant

Kate T Lawler

Potential Achieved was established by Kate T Lawler, an experienced Senior Consultant, Coach, Project Manager and Business Change Consultant with over 20 years international experience in both the public and private sector. Having led a number of high profile projects in the US, including managing change through restructuring of an organisation of 2,000 employees, her areas of expertise include strategic business development, coaching and mentoring for executives, mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution and managing for effective performance. Corporate client list includes major public and semi-state organisations and large and small private companies, including both Irish and International banks. Kate is a member of the Institute of Directors and a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Training and Development (IITD).

Kate holds the following qualifications:

☑ Advanced diploma in personal, leadership and executive coaching

☑ Post Graduate Certificate in Risk Management

☑ Chairing Boards and Committees Certificate

☑ Chartered Director Diploma
☑ MBA
☑ BA
☑ Certificate in Mediation
☑ Diploma in Executive Coaching
☑ Diploma in Company Direction

Codes of Practice

Potential Achieved works to the following codes of practice, as outlined by the Public Appointments Service (PAS)

☑ Code of Practice: Appointment to Positions in the Civil Service and Public Service
☑ Code of Practice: Appointment to the Position of Garda Trainee in An Garda Síochána
☑ Code of Practice: Emergency Short-term Appointments to Positions in the Health Service Executive
☑ Code of Practice: Appointment of Persons with Disabilities to Positions in the Civil Service and Certain Public Bodies
☑ Code of Practice: Atypical Appointments to Positions in the Civil Service and Certain Public Bodies