Claire Rostance
ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring (Clean Language)
About Claire
As an experienced accredited coach and NLP Practitioner, Claire is passionate about enabling people to be their best and achieve their full potential. Creating a safe space for clients to share their experiences and challenges and enabling them to find the answers. She uses a strengths-based approach empowering clients to create their own personalised strategies.
Clare Broadhurst
MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and in Coaching Psychology
About Clare
Clare is an EMCC Accredited Coach. Clare uses her knowledge from her MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology to help individuals, teams and organisations flourish.
She has a warm and flexible approach to her coaching and helps her clients uncover their strengths to build effective strategies to flourish and thrive at work and at home.
Clare has over 25 years of working in the education sector as a teacher and a senior leader. During this time Clare coached a wide variety of individuals and supported organisations to develop a coaching culture.
Clients describe Clare as a compassionate and kind coach who creates a safe space for them to think and reflect.
Claudine Charles
MSc in Human Resources Development
About Claudine
Claudine is an accredited Executive Coach and Level 4 Workplace Needs Assessor, who’s passionate about supporting people to operate at their best. She has extensive experience working with employees and leaders with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and dyscalculia, as well as those exploring their neurodivergence at work for the first time, partnering with clients to help them reflect on their strengths, challenges, and opportunities at work. She supports clients to gain insight into how they can adapt their ways of working, build on the strengths associated with their neurotype, and develop practical workplace strategies to improve their performance and wellbeing.
Claudine thrives on creating a safe space for clients to be comfortable and transparent, where they can work through any challenges or capitalise on a change or opportunity. She strongly believes that people are “response-able”, whole and creative, so she regularly partners with clients to support them in leveraging their strengths, unravelling any limiting beliefs, identifying practical workplace adjustments, as well as “holding up” and simplifying their options, resources, and possibilities. Claudine uses a range of coaching styles and methodologies with clients based on their needs, goals and preferences. As a result, clients find her warm, authentic, supportive, encouraging, open, frank and highly skilled in her area of expertise.
David Rendle
Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring
About David
David is an Association for Coaching accredited executive coach and a qualified coach supervisor. He had a long career in secondary teaching and subsequently in teacher training and school improvement.
David has coached with Genius Within for six years. He has his own coaching business and has coached teachers and other professionals, and he delivers academic coaching to younger students.
David has had a long experience of supporting neurodivergent students through his teaching and he has enhanced these skills and awareness through his coach training and subsequent CPD.
Dr Ronie Walters, CPsychol
About Dr Ronie
I’m a Chartered Coaching Psychologist (BPS), ICF accredited coach, and EMCC Senior Practitioner with a PhD in health-related behaviour change and an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology. I’ve been coaching for nine years, and I specialise in supporting neurodivergent people — including those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and OCD — to stop fighting their brain and start working with it.
Much of my work centres on navigating systems that weren’t designed for you, building strategies that actually fit how your mind works, and finding ways to perform and feel well on your own terms. My academic grounding in health psychology and positive psychology means the practical tools I offer are rooted in real evidence.
I bring lived experience to everything I do and have personal experience of disability and neurodiversity, as well as supporting loved ones with a range of neurodiversity and mental health conditions. I am sex positive and also work with clients navigating LGBTQ+ identity, menopause, and female health, recognising these aren’t separate from how someone shows up at work — they’re woven into the whole picture.
You don’t need to fit the mould. You need a coach who understands why the mould never fit in the first place.
Dr. Azi Khatiri
Certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF ACC)
About Dr Azi
Azi is a Clean Language Coach and Facilitator who specialises in supporting neurodivergent individuals, including those with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, ME/CFS, as well as those experiencing stress, anxiety, and menopause, to discover personalised strategies that work for their unique minds and circumstances.
Azi works with clients facing challenges such as organising, prioritising, managing competing and distracting thoughts, concentration, verbal communication, stress and anxiety management, recognising personal needs, setting boundaries, and managing workflow.
Azi’s coaching style is uniquely empowering, using Clean Language techniques that allow clients to reflect on their own experience and discover solutions that emerge from within themselves. Rather than prescribing strategies that work for others, she guides clients to uncover what will actually work for them personally. This approach is particularly effective for neurodivergent individuals who often receive well-meaning but generic advice that doesn’t fit their specific needs or circumstances.
Azi has extensive experience working with neurodivergent clients across diverse situations and challenges. Her clients achieve remarkable transformations – from avoiding overwhelming tasks to confidently managing their workload and administration, from struggling to communicate needs to successfully advocating for workplace accommodations like proper lunch breaks, and from feeling stuck to creating personalised study routines that fit their lifestyle.
As someone with lived experience of autism and chronic ME, Azi understands the daily realities of navigating the world with a different neurological makeup. However, her passion for this work stems from her ability to use Clean Language skills to help neurodivergent people live more fulfilled lives. Clients consistently report how useful their sessions have been, often leaving excited to implement their newly discovered strategies.
Dr. Jane Freeman-Hunt
About Dr. Jane
Jane has got a vast majority of experience in coaching. She has got a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Doctorate in Coaching. She is an accredited coach with the Association of Coaching and with the Association of Executive Coaching.
Jane started coaching when she was working in IT sector as a head of operations for Nokia Enterprise Architecture Team. In this role she was heading up for 200 autistic people. Jane has worked with a range of clients all the way up to board members and executives from different industries such as Health, IT, Finance, Public Sector and Consultancies. Jane herself also worked for lots of big corporate companies at a board level therefore she can relate to anyone wherever they might be on the ladder.
Jane is autistic and she has lived experience of neurodiversity in her family.
When Jane is coaching at her best she is creative, lively, chatty and engaged. She is good at coming up with new solutions using her creativity. She really enjoys making a difference and, in some cases, changing people’s lives.
Emma Wee
About Emma
Emma champions the resilience and self-reliance that understanding one’s own neurodiversity can bring an individual, and has seen many clients find a new sense of purpose by being able to embrace fully who they are, rather than being defined by a label. Her own neurodiversity has allowed her to thrive in different worlds of work’ because of the way her brain works, not in spite of it.
She is also keen to support women who are peri and post menopausal in giving them strategies and a space to be heard at a time of both physical and mental upheaval.
When Emma is coaching at her best…..She is like a spaghetti sorting device; able to untangle the different strands of clients’ conditions , circumstances and personality traits to unknot problems and streamline their working process and emotional resilience.
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.
Gemma North
PhD in Social Work, MA in Social Work, and MSc in Social Research Methods
About Gemma
Gemma takes a strength based and person-centred approach to coaching. With expertise in neurodiversity and emotional wellbeing Gemma draws upon evidence-informed approaches including trauma informed practice and theories of change.
With a sensitive and creative style, Gemma also bringing humour and lightness to coaching sessions. Clients may leave feeling calmer and more clear thinking about how to progress with their goals.
Gemma has a background in social work and academia. Previous roles include lecturer, researcher, social worker, and substance misuse practitioner.
Gilda Westermann
BSc in Psychology
About Gilda
Gilda has an intensive coaching background and has worked with Genius Within for many years. In her private practice, she supports clients with Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and attention challenges to overcome their issues and unfold their talents. She brings together a wide range of coaching and mentoring skills, with mindfulness practice and experience.
Gilda has 15 years of coaching and training experience in private practice and 5 years private practice as a specialist for Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and ADHD. Understanding dyslexia and neurodiversity has long been her focus. Since joining Genius Within in 2012 she has worked with a variety of individuals from age 6 to retirement age.
Gilda is passionate about neurodiversity at work, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, Health and well-being, organisation and prioritising.
Gudrun Stolzenburg
About Gudrun
Gudrun has around 10 years experience in coaching. She is passionate about helping clients finding their own unique ways to overcome challenges and achieve their full potential. She has worked with a diverse range of clients, both on an individual basis as well as in groups. She loves Clean Language because the deep respect it affords clients and for the amazing solutions they come up with when they are enabled to.
Gudrun’s calm approach to coaching and her sense of humour make it easy to work with her and relax into the sessions.
Gudrun has had bouts of depression and anxiety, including post-natal anxieties and has experience in how hard these periods are and how much energy it costs to work your way out of them
Helen Jebb
Professional Certified Coach (PCC) ICF, ILM Level 7 Executive Coaching and ILM Level 5 Coaching and Mentoring
About Helen
Helen is an experienced executive coach supporting clients to see their potential and reach it. She has been enthusiastically working with neurodivergent clients in a wide range of employment settings with Genius Within since 2016.
Helen Johnson
PhD in the Social Psychological Process of Role Transition (Making Change) and Emotionally Intelligent Support and MSc in Public Policy
About Helen
Helen is an ICF credentialised coach to PCC level with 10 years coaching experience and an extensive background in coaching neurodiversity. She also has a Diploma in Integrated Energy Techniques (tapping and NLP) and offers ICF coach training for coaches, leaders, and change-makers.
Helen coaches by finding the hidden blocks to getting exactly where you want to be. She goes deep, but also focuses on making things lighter for you, creating more ease and enjoyment in what you are doing.
Helen has a wide range of knowledge and skills to bring to the table. Helen’s experience includes coaching and training executives, as well as working extensively with neurodivergent individuals to help them leverage their strengths while addressing their challenges.
Hirra Khan
About Hirra
Hirra is a neurodiversity coach who supports individuals to better understand how they work, build confidence, and develop practical strategies that help them thrive both at work and in everyday life. Her coaching approach is warm, collaborative, and strengths-based, creating a safe space for clients to explore challenges, identify solutions, and achieve meaningful goals.
She works with a wide range of neurodivergent individuals, including those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and anxiety-related challenges. Through coaching, Hirra helps clients develop self-awareness, improve organisation and time management, manage overwhelm, build confidence, and advocate for their needs in the workplace.
Ines Grote
About Ines
With over 20 years of experience supporting neurodivergent individuals, Ines is passionate about helping people understand how their minds work and how they can use that knowledge to thrive at work, in education, and in everyday life. She has extensive experience assisting individuals with dyslexia, ADHD, and mental health challenges, and helps to develop practical strategies to address their challenges (ie organisation, time management, stress management, exam preparation …)
Ines has run her own business for over 10 years and worked in education. She brings both real-world experience and educational expertise to her coaching.
She also enjoys co-coaching and collaborating with others to provide thoughtful, supportive guidance that helps people thrive.
Her approach is warm, honest and non-judgemental; she helps her clients build confidence and make the most of their strengths. Ines has worked with people from the private and public sectors; she is flexible and solution-oriented.
Jasmine Navarro
About Jasmine
Jasmine is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with six years of coaching experience, supporting teenagers and adults to develop confidence, resilience, emotional wellbeing, and self-belief. With over 20 years’ experience as a qualified teacher and having lived and worked in 11 countries across three continents, Jasmine brings a global perspective and a deep understanding of diverse individuals and environments.
Jasmine takes a strengths-based, client-centred approach, using powerful questioning, coaching methodologies, and visualisation to help clients gain clarity, overcome limiting beliefs, and create meaningful change. She has particular experience supporting neurodiverse individuals and has developed and delivered wellbeing, resilience, confidence, and neurodiversity programmes for schools, organisations, and employees.
Jo Lee
Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Personal Coaching
About Jo
Jo is a well-qualified and highly experienced coach, who specializes in supporting neurodivergent leaders & executives to achieve a better balance between their professional performance, high workload and personal wellbeing.
Jo favours a “talk ahead of tools” approach to coaching, preferring to keep coaching simple, flexible, intuitive and brave, balancing challenge and support in the pursuit of achieving transformational outcomes. Jo’s coaching is predominantly solution-focused in nature and, as needed, Jo introduces evidence-based models and approaches from TA, clean coaching and positive psychology.
Joe Ruddock
About Joe
Joe’s coaching starts with you, and understanding your unique strengths and challenges. From this basis, he works with you to create personalised strategies that empower you to thrive – personally and professionally.
Joe is an ILM accredited coach, specialising in working with neurodivergent clients – particularly Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia, to explore strategies and set goals which make a lasting difference to the individual’s life.
He also brings to sessions his background in sports psychology, teaching, and training to support clients in unlocking a powerful mindset of growth and change.
