A New Path,
Then and Now

After fifteen years leading the business, Liam has handed over the reins to Insaf Ben Othmane Hamrouni, who will now guide Slí Nua Careers into its next phase, while maintaining the same high standards and client focus for which the business is known.
Hear Liam tell the story in his own words 

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Liam Horan founded Slí Nua with a simple but powerful belief: “When you truly understand who someone is; their strengths, their passions, what lights them up, you can help them find their way.”

“From the early days of the recession, when people arrived uncertain and shaken, to today’s fast-moving world of new possibilities, Slí Nua has always been about meeting people where they are and walking alongside them toward where they want to go”

The name itself : Slí Nua, meaning “new path” in Irish  captures that spirit perfectly. And now, as Liam steps back, a new chapter begins: one that builds on those founding principles. The heart of it stays the same,  genuine care for the people we work with, and a belief that everyone has more in them than they might realise.

“It’s been a privilege to lead Slí Nua Careers and to work with so many talented people. I am extremely grateful to our diverse client range over the past 15 years. I’m confident the business is in excellent hands and has a bright future ahead.” Liam Horan

Photo: Patrick Joseph Howard

“It’s an honour to take on a business with such a strong reputation and ethos. I’m excited to build on the great work done to date, to continue delivering the quality and care that clients associate with Slí Nua Careers, and to develop new services that support career development, creative leadership, and organisational growth.” Insaf Ben Othmane Hamrouni

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What is the Power of “us”? 

“The Power of ‘us’ is the transformative force that emerges when people who might never have met – different backgrounds, stories, experiences – find common ground in shared place and purpose. From that encounter grows something new: new alliances, new identities, and new ways of making cities together, deeper than cooperation, stronger than individual effort.”

Joke Quintens, Social designer and Regenerative development Practitioner. Founder Wetopia. Slí Nua Advisory board Member.
link: www.wetopia.blog 

What is for me regeneration? 

“Regeneration goes beyond sustainability. It is not enough to reduce harm: regeneration means leaving places better than when we found them. It is the practice of restoring and unlocking the potential that already lives within people, communities, and places. When we nurture that potential through connection and care, places don’t just endure, they evolve, thrive, and give back more life than they receive.”

Joke Quintens, Social designer and Regenerative development Practitioner. Founder Wetopia. Slí Nua Advisory board Member.
link: www.wetopia.blog ​

Insaf Ben Othmane HamrounI, Slí Nua

environment, ecology, environmental protection, nature, agricultural turnaround, floor, earth, humus, plant, biomass, compost

At Slí Nua Studio, we believe that meaningful change happens through co-production and co-design, by working with people rather than designing for them. Our practice is rooted in human-centred and regenerative principles, guided by ethics, empathy, affordability, and inclusion. We understand vulnerability not as a personal condition, but as isolation: the inability to access opportunities, spaces, or collective life within one’s own geography. The Studio therefore operates as a living system rather than a set of silos, where learning, creativity, civic engagement, and economic activity support one another. We trust in human potential and in the capacity of people to collaborate, mediate, and care collectively for shared resources. At Slí Nua, art and creativity are not reserved for a few, they are rights, tools, and common ground through which communities can imagine, build, and sustain more just and regenerative futures.

Slí Nua’s DNA lies in a catalytic integration of regenerative tools, social engineering, urban living lab methodologies, and co-production practices, enabling the translation of theory into situated action and lived spatial transformation.