Why neurodivergent leadership coaching?
Blending over two decades of experience in non-profit, community development, corporate sales, copywriting, journalism, business and strength and conditioning coaching (nobody was surprised when I got my ADHD diagnosis, lol!), with trauma informed, neuroaffirming coaching, I am uniquely positioned in the coaching space.
I offer high impact, collaborative coaching informed by current research in neuroscience and anchored in best practice.
I believe that being neurodivergent is a gift...but I also recognise the challenges.
The Neuroaffirming Lens
Being neuroaffirming means moving beyond simply tolerating somebody's differences and actively leveraging their strengths while creating scaffolding to help manage the challenges they may face.
I, like many undiagnosed neurodivergent people, knew I was smart and ambitious, yet everything felt so hard all the time. I never felt like I was meeting my *ugh* potential. There was a constant gap between what I wanted to do and knew I could do, and what I was actually accomplishing and/or how it felt.
The two stories that tend to live in that gap? "I must be stupid" or "I must be lazy." Neither was true, and it cost me a lot of time, money, relationships and health figuring it out.
When we experience a gap between our CAPABILITY (what we can do, or could do given the time, resources, energy and money) and our CAPACITY (what we can actually do right now), WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WHY AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, it can leave us feeling lost, overwhelmed, confused and ashamed.
For leaders and founders, especially women who are dealing with the extra challenge of peri/menopause, the systems that have worked until now just...don't.
That's where I come in.
The Missing Piece: Embodiment
Most of my clients are at the top of their game, at least from the outside. Leader, founder, executive; many with the additional label of gifted (2e or twice exceptional).
On the inside they're falling apart. They've experienced, or are experiencing, burnout and chronic health issues. They live each day overwhelmed by stress and fear. They feel like impostors and worry about losing their job (even when they own the company).
This chaos flows onto their team, and we see the internal patterns playing out at the organisational level.
How can you possibly innovate and grow in a competitive market when you spend all day putting out fires?
That's where embodiment comes in. Far from being woo-woo, embodiment and somatic practices are proven methods of changing the way you regulate your nervous system and relate to self and others, which allows you to:
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Move from confusion to clarity about your neurodivergent brain
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Mask less and lead more authentically
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Stop fighting your brain and work with it strategically
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Ditch the generic productivity advice and develop personalised strategies and systems
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Stop reacting and start responding to leadership challenges
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Move from survival mode to strategic thinking
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Develop embodied confidence instead of feeling like an impostor all the time
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Move from inconsistent results to sustainable high performance
At an organisational level, it can help you:
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Improve team cohesion and trust
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Develop role clarity and manage expectations
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Develop neuroinclusive methods of communication and management
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Reduce burnout and churn rate
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Increase employee wellbeing and retention
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Nurture your leadership pipeline
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Create, implement and maintain neuroaffirming policies and practices
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Drive innovation and creativity
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Stay agile and able to pivot in a rapidly changing economy
These are just some of the benefits my clients have experienced, all of which have direct and measurable impacts on key metrics in their business.
What you can't measure or put a price on?
How it feels to be seen, heard and truly understood,
possibly for the first time in your life.
If you're looking for a coach who can meet you with
both PRECISION and COMPASSION, that's me.
