Would you like help to land your dream job, or perform better in the one you already have?
Genius Within has a team of over 130 expert coaches, qualified to ILM Level 5 or above. All of our coaches have experience in supporting neurominorities in the workplace as 43% many of them identify as neurodiverse/neurodivergent themselves and 62% identify as disabled.
Understanding what you need, coupled with our evidence based approach, and consistent results, have made us leaders in our industry
All the coaches listed below are available to book for online sessions, at a time that suits you.
- Sessions last a minimum of 1 hour
- We recommend a minimum of 3 sessions for maximum benefit
- Online coaching is available – you just need access to a device with a microphone, camera and internet connection
You can choose from a wide selection of our experienced coaches, and now you can book your session with them directly – just by clicking on the photos below and completing the form. Read about each coach and find more out about their specialisms and qualifications and book with your coach today!
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You can choose from a wide selection of our experienced coaches, just click on the profiles below to learn more about their specialisms and qualifications.
A Genius Coach
About A Genius Coach
If you would like to book a coaching session, but would rather the Genius Within team select a qualified coach for you, just select this option and we will ensure that we provide the best matched coach to meet your needs.
Angie Alderman
MSc in Coaching Counselling. MBACP Integrative Coach Counsellor
About Angie
Angie has been working within organisations and in private practice since 2011. She has a client base that includes a broad spectrum of roles from interns to CEOs, young adults and primary caregivers.
Angie felt early on in her life that neurodivergence prevented her from career success through traditional roles. She found her own path through being self-employed and contracting role. She has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Paris and London. With a high travel burden, she learned the importance of vocalising sensory sensitivities, literally marking her own spatial boundaries. Her experience has taught her how to be her own best advocate, to be practical about what she needs and this is a skill she can share with her clients. Angie believes her experiences have taught her the power of setting goals and overcoming barriers.
When Angie is coaching at her best, she is doing less, and creating space for her clients to think things through from multiple perspectives.
Helen Barnes
About Helen
Helen is a skilled and compassionate coach, coach supervisor and occupational therapist whose work is grounded in academic rigour and experience from working with a diverse range of clients. She has a deep curiosity and intuition about people and believes that a client’s narrative is the best way of getting to know them; where they are in the context of their lives and where they might be thinking about going.
Helen’s experience has been rich and varied working with all grades of staff across the European Commission in Brussels as part of their internal coaching programme, and more recently with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust on a project supporting adults with mental health conditions back into work. She continues to work with the NHS Leadership Academy as well as running her own coaching and therapy company.
Runa Begum
About Runa
Runa is a leadership expert, senior coach, group coach and a coach supervisor with over 10 years experience in talent and leadership development in the corporate world. She comes from a multi-faceted professional background spanning across a range of sectors; including people development in the NHS, public policy in the government sector, social justice in the community sector, and personal development in the wellbeing sector, equipping her with a wealth of awareness and systems knowledge that is well-rounded from the ground-up as well as top-down.
Trained in a variety of psychometric and personality testing tools, her passion for unlocking the human potential has led her to expand her expertise in mindfulness and wisdom practices as well as contemporary therapeutic approaches. With this she runs her own therapy practice supporting people to overcome trauma, conditioning and personal limitations, adding a further dimension to drawing meaningful connections from all areas of life.
Stephanie Benfield
About Stephanie
Stephanie is an ICF-accredited PCC coach with her neurodivergence of autism and dyspraxia. She specialises in supporting introverts, creatives, neurodivergent and quietly ambitious individuals to achieve their goals, increase confidence, manage stress and anxiety and gain clarity to move forward.
Stephanie’s coaching style is holistic, delving deeper to support understanding and awareness. It is also practical and focused, helping you get from here to where you want to be most effectively. As well as goal setting and planning, she will implement the accountability methods that really motivate!
Ermine Benjamin
About Ermine
Ermine is also a teacher and she has been teaching dyslexic children for many years. When she is working with them, she uses her active listening skills to really hear what they are saying and adjust her teaching style according to their learning styles. Ermine also worked with individuals from the health and finance sector as well as education.
What Ermine likes about coaching is supporting people to move towards their goals, seeing those special moments when people get an insight that helps them to move forward in their journey and giving people the opportunity to set their own agendas. But most importantly, it’s the forward focus where clients are not dwelling on the past where things have gone wrong, they focus on their strengths to move forward.
When Ermine is coaching at her best she gives her clients her undivided attention, she is an active listener, asks questions that will encourage them to look more deeply at the issues they are discussing, feedbacks on what she has heard so she is sure of her understanding and they are reassured that they are being heard.
Rachel Birchmore
MBA
About Rachel
Rachel works with leaders, managers and their teams to become confident leaders, competent managers and be more effective communicators. She has a calm, friendly style and helps her clients to identify and build on their unique strengths and so thrive in the workplace.
She works extensively with architects, engineers and others in the property, design and construction sectors which is where she has spent her 30-year career leading teams prior to training as a coach in 2016.
She is a qualified business and workplace coach and PCC accredited with the International Coaching Federation.
Kelly Bristow
MSc in Occupational Psychology
About Kelly
Kelly is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist with a strong background in Psychology and evidence-based practice, combined with lived experience of neurodivergence.
Kelly adopts a person-centred, flexible approach, informed by strengths-based Positive Psychology to co-create with her clients.
Kelly’s approach is described as providing a safe, non-judgmental space to enable reflection, and empower individuals to make changes they wish to make in their lives. She is authentic, affirming, and enables her clients to better understand themselves, and to unpick the barriers they experience.
