Colm was born in Ireland where he spent the first thirty-five years of his life. Educated at Griffith College and Trinity College, Dublin, he has held positions as President, non-Executive Director, Director of business, and Business Development Manager over the years. He has lectured to MBA students in Strategic Management, and to experienced workers and executives on post graduate courses in Management and Leadership. In recent years, Colm has also mentored and advised business owners and founders in Ireland and the United States.
Colm emigrated to the United States in 2008 with his American-born wife Jessica - also a graduate of Trinity College in Ireland and currently a Clinical Psychology Doctoral student in Virginia.


In his "Just Manage It!" series of books, he has coined such phrases and terms as:

Empirical Blindness

Illusions of Empiricality

Positive and Negative Consistency

Listening Fitness

Brilliant Dullards

Positive and Negative Social Contagion

Attributional Habits

Favor Blindness

Running the Green Light

Some of the Principles, Concepts, and Models developed by him in the "Just Manage It!" series include:

The "All Blame Migrates" principle

The Five Constituency Model for Observing Behavioral Impact

The Power of Social Contagion

Warping the Psychological Contract

The Ten-Ps of Constituency and Context Awareness

Influencing the "Propensity Factor"

The Ten Steps to Ineffectiveness

The Five R's of Delegation

Covert Behavioral Re-Direction

Capacity, Fitness, Void - The Overall Managerial Skill Set

The Fat Friday Technique and Safety Net

The False Reality Trap

The Age & Experience Trap

On his writing style he explains:

"My first experience of university was the study of law. Legal textbooks generally place footnotes at the bottom of each page. But this is not the case with many business and management books where footnotes appear at the end of each chapter or, in some cases, in the back of the book. I quite simply do not understand why the business and management worlds do that. My aim - where practicable - has always been to make my footnotes as informative as possible. Footnotes should supplement and support the main text. The ideal for me would be for a person to open one of my books, read the footnotes only, and then be satisfied they are wiser for the experience. Hiding footnotes away in the back of a book just does not make any sense to me, hence the layout of my own books and Web Articles."