Prior to joining Carmichael Centre, Diarmaid worked as a strategy consultant for over 25 years. In these consulting roles, he was able to work with organisations to help them determine where they want to get to, what they want to achieve, and equally importantly, how they could achieve the goals and targets they set. He is a certified Technical Corporate Governance Assessor in the National Standards Authority of Ireland's (NSAI) and the Institute of Directors in Ireland's (IoD) Swift 3000 Code of Practice for Corporate Governance Assessment. Diarmaid is Chairman of Acquired Brain Injury Ireland and is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the Institute of Public Administration.