About SKE

Meet Siobhan Kelleher.

Multi-award-winning dental hygienist, opinion leader, coach and founder of SKE. She has spent her career pushing the profession to be better every day and built an institute to teach it.

Registered Dental Hygienist MSc Coaching PgDip Positive Health Award-winning educator
Her story

From the surgery chair to the lecture stage.

Siobhan qualified as a dental hygienist and never stopped learning. A masters in coaching and a postgraduate diploma in positive health later, she’d become an opinion leader and clinical support specialist working with leading dental companies – presenting nationally and internationally, and contributing to industry-leading publications.

Along the way she noticed the same gap she’d once felt herself: brilliant clinical training, and almost nothing about the human skills that make it land. SKE is her answer – where oral-health science, positive health and coaching finally sit in one place.

“Change is a doorway to a better you.”

Qualifications & recognition

The credentials behind the courses

RDH

Registered Dental Hygienist

Qualified & registered with the Dental Council

MSc

Masters in Coaching

Advanced coaching & behaviour change

PgD

PgDip Positive Health

Positive psychology & wellbeing science

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Multi-award-winning

20+ industry awards for education & practice

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Editorial board

Irish Dentistry journal contributor

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Clinical support specialist

Advising leading dental companies

What SKE stands for

Three beliefs that shape everything.

Better every day

Small, honest improvements compound. We teach for the long game, not the quick fix.

The whole person

Teeth sit inside a life. Real care sees the human in the chair, and the human in the coat.

Evidence with warmth

Rigorous science delivered with kindness  because how you say it is part of whether it works.

The Faculty

Meet the people behind SKE

A small, hand-picked team of clinicians and educators who help bring every programme to life.

Siobhan Kelleher

Director and Educator, SKE

Siobhan is the founder and director of SKE, leading the organisation's dental CPD education programmes across Ireland and the UK. She holds an MSc alongside diplomas in Public Health and Dental Hygiene.

Elaine Tilling 

Dental Hygienist & Patron

Elaine qualified as a dental hygienist in the Royal Air Force in 1982 and later spent 22 years as clinical lead on TePe Oral Hygiene's UK senior leadership team. She now sits on NICE's smoking cessation expert panel and writes on behavioural change and oral health.

Fiona Ellwood 

Director of Dental Education & Associate Professor, University of Lincoln

Fiona holds academic and clinical roles across several UK institutions, including Honorary Senior Lecturer at Portsmouth and education associate for the GDC. She also serves as Executive Director of the Society of British Dental Nurses and champions several dentistry wellbeing and advocacy groups.

Kathryn Mayo

Dental Hygienist & Clinical Educator

Kathryn has over 30 years of clinical experience and has taught dental hygiene at the Universities of Leeds and Manchester. A published author on periodontal disease and preventive dentistry, she brings a former student's perspective to supporting SKE learners.

Haley Gannon 

Dental Nurse & Education Coordinator Manager

Haley qualified as a Dental Nurse from University College Cork in 2016, graduating top of her class, and has since built 13 years of dental industry experience. She now works part-time as an HSE dental nurse while coordinating course delivery alongside Siobhan Kelleher at SKE.

Lisa Pearson

Dental Hygienist

Lisa has over 23 years of experience in dentistry, starting as a dental nurse before qualifying as a dental hygienist from DDUH in 2007. She has worked across multidisciplinary and specialist practices, including Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, and now splits her time between general and specialist periodontal private practice.

Learn with Siobhan.

Eduqual approved courses and oral-health programmes – all in one place.