The Association’s Mid-West chapter is pleased to announce a breakfast event at the University of Limerick on Wednesday, 25th February 2026 from 7.30am, which will explore negotiation as a core leadership skill used every day — in business, teams, careers, and complex conversations.

In this session, Dr Ann Torres, Associate Professor in Marketing at the University of Galway, will share practical insights into how negotiations really work, how to navigate differing perspectives, and how to move conversations toward mutually beneficial outcomes. Whether you’re early in your career or an experienced professional, this event is designed to be relevant, accessible, and useful — no prior negotiation experience required.

Timing: Arrive from 7:30am

Fireside chat: 8-9am

Room: KBG-16

The Association’s Southern Chapter is pleased to announce an event with Tom O’Brien of Sprintmodo presenting on the subject of Team Power for Managers – Enhancing clarity, rhythm and accountability to get work done. In conjunction with MTU, the event takes place on Wednesday, 4th March 2026 at 6.30pm at Johnson & Perrott Peugeot, Mahonpoint, Cork T12 RD35.

As a manager of a team, or a team member who is willing to step up and lead, your role is to help them to align on what needs to be done and get them executing on it. Done right, your team will have momentum. Team members will have less frustration and more of a chance to do their best work. This session will explore the key elements to strengthen team power, team clarity, execution rhythm, collaboration quality, and accountability. Sprintmodo’s Challenge Session approach will be used to help you evaluate how you currently approach team execution.  We will experiment with Tangible Actions you can use to support you, and we will consider how you could adapt this to your own context after the session.

Tom O’Brien, Founder & CEO of Sprintmodo, has a background in Execution, Leadership, Teamwork and Manager Development (Sprintmodo), International Product Management, Business Development (J&J and a start-up drug development company, Solvotrin), and Sales & Training (Servier). He is a pharmacist by training (UCC) and has an MBA from London Business School, with International Exchange in Wharton, UPenn. He (with Sprintmodo) has worked with the EMBA and MBA Programmes in Smurfit UCD, the staff of Imperial College London, BioInnovate in University of Galway, CyberInnovate in MTU, and numerous blue chip organisations, in Ireland, the UK, the US and across EMEA.

Sprintmodo is an execution momentum company that helps leaders bring clarity, rhythm, and accountability to how work gets done. They achieve this with their Execution Momentum System™, centred around Challenge Sessions, where managers tackle real execution challenges and lock in proven work practices, and their Manager Sidekick platform for enhanced personal momentum

The Association’s Western Chapter is delighted to invite Bob Goodson to present a webinar on Wednesday, 22 April from 6.30pm. Bob is the author of the Harvard Business Review book  Like: The Button That Changed the World, a riveting, insider’s look at the creation and evolution of the like button and what it reveals about innovation, business, and culture—and its profound impact on modern human interaction.

Over 160 billion times a day, someone taps a like button. How could something that came out of nowhere become so ubiquitous—and even so addictive? How did this seemingly ordinary social media icon go from such a small and unassuming invention to something so intuitive and universally understood that it has scaled well beyond its original intent? This is the story of the like button and how it changed our lives. In Like, bestselling author and renowned strategy expert Martin Reeves and coauthor Bob Goodson — Silicon Valley veteran and one of the originators of the like button — take readers on a quest to uncover the origins of the thumbs-up gesture, how it became an icon on social media, and what’s behind its power.

Registration details to follow

Once again the Association is pleased to host a hike in the Wicklow Mountains with MBAAI member Simon Holmes of Escape2Nature – the perfect way to unwind and discover breath-taking beauty on Dublin’s doorstep!

The walk will take place  on Sunday, 14th June.

This is a date for diary- details to follow!