Aidan McCullen

Aidan McCullen (born 5 January 1977) is an Irish businessman, broadcaster and former Ireland national rugby union team player. McCullen hosts The Innovation Show, a weekly podcast featuring interviews with people involved in innovation, strategy and leadership. He is also the founder of the "Reinvention Summit", an annual innovation and transformation event held in Dublin. McCullen is married to former Miss Ireland model Niamh Redmond. They have two sons.

Rugby career

McCullen started playing rugby at Castleknock College after moving to Dublin from County Meath. He represented Leinster at schools level and captained both the Leinster under-19 and under-20 teams before progressing to the Ireland U21 side.

In 1998, after playing for Ireland U21s, McCullen spent a season with US Dax in the French first division before returning to Ireland to join Lansdowne Football Club in the All-Ireland League.

McCullen made 60 appearances for Leinster and earned a senior international cap for Ireland in a match against Samoa on 20 June 2003.

In 2005, he signed for Toulouse. The French newspaper La Dépêche described him as a "bonne pioche" (a "good pick") for the club. Although he broke into the starting team and played 16 games for Toulouse over a period of 6 months, a knee injury limited his time at the club.

For several years, McCullen also worked as a rugby commentator with Setanta Sports (later Eir Sport).

Business career As of 2013, McCullen was "head of digital" at Communicorp. He was involved in developing the digital infrastructure at the organisation and promoted the concept of "Radio You Can Read", an early multimedia extension of the Newstalk 106–108 brand.

In January 2016, McCullen joined RTÉ as "head of innovation partnerships and funding". He later worked with the business think-tank Katawave. He wrote Undisruptable: A Mindset of Permanent Reinvention for Individuals, Organisations and Life, a business and management book published by Wiley in 2021.

He is a consultant, and lectures in Trinity College Business School. He is also a non-executive board director for National Broadband Ireland and the Rise Global Foundation. McCullen is the founder of the "Reinvention Summit", an annual event focused on organisational reinvention and innovation, held in Dublin.