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Leadership: Nobody ever made a difference by being like everyone else by Tom Maguire, 2025

In Leadership, author Tom Maguire discusses leadership with some of Ireland’s senior leaders. The purpose of the book is to inspire current and future leaders to be the best they can be. Telling their own stories, the issues covered by these leaders in their conversations with Tom include the qualities of a good leader, leading day to day, dealing with adversity and matters relating to external environmental forces, as well as taking care of yourself as a leader. Leadership is key to success and, as Hugh Jackman said in The Greatest Showman, ‘Nobody ever made a difference by being like everyone else.’

Leadership features contributions from:

• Mary McAleese – former President of Ireland
• June Butler – CEO, Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
• Helen Cahill – CEO, financefair.com
• Gretchen Carlson – acclaimed journalist, female empowerment advocate, co-founder ‘Lift Our Voices’ in US
• Lorna Conn – CEO, CpL
• Mary Considine – CEO, The Shannon Airport Group
• Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill – Minister for Health
• Catherine Doyle – General Manager, Microsoft Ireland
• Martina Fitzgerald – CEO, Scale Ireland
• Sinead Fitzmaurice – CEO, Transfermate
• Ruth Kennedy – Revenue Commissioner
• Patricia Kelly – Creative Director at Gene Kelly: The Legacy, official biographer and widow of dancer/director Gene Kelly
• Sonya Lennon – founder of Lennon Courtney, Work Equal & LIFT Ireland
• Gina London – former CNN anchor, CEO and founder, Language of Leadership Ltd
• Dr Lollie Mancey – Programme Director, UCD Innovation Academy
• Tara McCarthy – Global Vice-President ESG at Alltech, former CEO of Bord Bia
• Mairead McGuinness – former European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union and former Vice-President of the European Parliament
• Sarah Murphy – CEO, Business Post
• Cynthia Ní Mhurchú – Member of the European Parliament
• Noelle O’Connell – CEO, European Movement Ireland
• Orla O’Gorman – Non-Executive Director of Mincon, Bon Secours Health System Ireland, Cubic Telecom and Cairn Homes plc; Venture advisory board member of Elkstone
• Louise Phelan – former VP PayPal
• Andrea Reynolds – CEO, Swoop
• Liz Sweigart – CEO, VISVERE in US

Tom Maguire is a tax partner in Deloitte and leads its Tax Policy and Technical Services team. He is also adjunct full professor in tax policy at UCD’s Michael Smurfit School of Business. He is the current author of a number of Ireland’s leading texts on taxation which have been cited as authority in the Irish courts. He was described in the former Tánaiste’s foreword to his previous book, Crisis, as ‘one of our leading tax commentators and accountants’. He also writes a bi-weekly column on tax matters in the Business Post.

All of the author’s income from this book will benefit Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross, Dublin.