David Buggie

Biography

David Buggie is an organisational development practitioner and executive and team coach. He is Coaching Lead for the MBA programmes at Trinity Business School, where he designs and leads the team coaching that runs alongside the Strategic Company Project on the Full-Time and Executive MBAs. He also contributes to the programmes’ wider vertical development work. He is a Senior Academic Practitioner at the Irish Management Institute.

David spent 22 years with Siemens. He joined as a graduate engineer and rose to Director of Organisational Change for the Great Britain and Ireland division, and he has lived and worked in Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, the UK and Germany. As a Director of Lacerta Consulting, he works with senior leaders and leadership teams in Ireland, the UK and continental Europe.

His practice and research centre on facilitated experiential learning in management development. In particular, he is interested in how team coaching, action learning and structured reflection create the conditions in which leaders develop. He holds EMCC Senior Practitioner accreditation in both Executive Coaching and Senior Team Coaching, is a master practitioner in the Six Team Conditions framework, and contributed to The Team Coaching Casebook (McGraw Hill, 2022). He holds an engineering degree from Trinity, an MBA, and postgraduate qualifications in executive coaching (UCC) and team coaching (UCD).