John Treacy

John Treacy has worked with two global management consulting firms, Watson Wyatt Worldwide and Sibson & Company/Segal, and his consulting focus has been in the areas of sales effectiveness, strategic HR, performance and reward management, strategic incentive design, employee retention and organisational effectiveness.

John's more recent engagements have included projects with blue chip names such as GE, Vodafone, Capgemini, Heineken, DePuy/Johnson & Johnson, NEC Electronics, Jobs.ie, Group 4 Securicor, Tesco, IDA Ireland and RTÉ.

Prior to returning to Ireland in 2001, John spent seven years living in Chicago and working in the management consulting and finance arenas. As a Human Capital Consultant, his specialisation was in the areas of financial analysis, strategic HR management consulting and sales organisation effectiveness.
In the US, John worked across a broad range of industries with clients such as Regent Medical, AOL, AAA, Borg-Warner/Burns Security, Borg-Warner Automotive, IntelliRisk Call Centres, CSAA Insurance, Orkin/Rollins, Nestlé Clinical Nutrition, Wheels.com, Mebane Packaging and Shaw Industries.

Before moving into management consulting, John spent two years in the futures and options trading industry, working on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and on the Foreign Exchange team at ABN-Amro/The Chicago Corporation. John has delivered several executive seminars on sales force effectiveness, in Dublin, London and Madrid and his most recent published articles include “Current Trends in Variable Pay” for the CIPD (People Focus Magazine) and “Smarter Sales Pay” for the Sales Institute of Ireland (Quarterly Newsletter).

John graduated with a Bachelor of Business and Legal Studies degree from University College Dublin in 1995 with a focus in Finance.

John is the Managing Director of Treacy Consulting and he currently holds Non-Executive Directorships in Acuman Facilities Management and Redmond Molloy Dental Clinics.