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.
Abigail Hunkin
MSc in Occupational Psychology
About Abigail
Abbie is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist and an EMCC accredited Senior Practitioner. With twenty years of corporate experience gained across the UK, Australia and the Middle East, Abbie combines an understanding of the pressures and challenges of a broad range of work environments with a deep psychological understanding.
Abbie looks to take a strengths-based, solution-focused approach in her coaching, however she may look to uncover unhelpful cognitive patterns and emotional obstacles as led by the client. Abbie is trained in a range of coaching methodologies and can flex her approach to suit the changing needs of the client, always with compassion and sensitivity. Abbie’s coaching has been described as a ‘Positive and empowering experience’.
Adam Gill
ILM Level 7 Executive Coaching
About Adam
Adam is an experienced ILM Level 7 Executive Coach skilled at supporting clients in understanding and building resilient skills around their neurodivergent self. With over 15 years of experience in the corporate, charity and public sectors, Adam has first-hand experience of the pressures and challenges facing ambitious people.
Adam works with diagnosed or self-identified neurodivergent executives, leaders, entrepreneurs. He helps people to discover clarity around the impact of neurodivergence, their purpose in life, and walk alongside them as Coach to move forward effectively. Through greater clarity comes a clearer path. Coaching with Adam has been described by his clients as safe, non-judgmental, clear, and robust.
Afsar Ali
MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology
Aileen Carson
MBA
About Aileen
Aileen helps people identify their strengths, ambitions, and values so they can become clear on their goals and aspirations and pursue these with confidence. She helps people create strategies so they can make best use of their strengths to enable them to thrive in the workplace and progress with their careers.
Prior to becoming a coach, Aileen worked in the public, private and third sectors from entry-level roles to senior management. Her experience has given her a good understanding of the stresses of each level and the importance of finding a balance in all areas of life.
Aleena Malik
About Aleena
Aleena is a Coach at Genius Within with almost five years’ experience supporting neurodivergent adults in the workplace. She works with clients navigating ADHD, autism, dyslexia, anxiety, communication, confidence and workplace strategies.
Her coaching is warm, reflective and practical, with a focus on helping clients understand themselves more deeply and work in ways that feel manageable and authentic. Aleena supports clients to slow down, untangle what feels overwhelming and explore how their brain, environment and role interact. Through coaching, she helps individuals recognise their strengths and develop strategies that feel realistic, sustainable and meaningful to them.
Alison Watson
Angie Alderman
Level 7 Executive Coach, Supervisor, Workplace Needs Assessor, and Trainer
About Angie
Angie is a Level 7 Executive Coach, Supervisor, Workplace Needs Assessor, and Trainer supporting high achievers and executives, including those navigating ADHD, Autism, and mental health challenges across all ages. Bringing 20 plus years of expertise across corporate, creative, and third sectors, her integrative approach combines evidence-based coaching with psychotherapeutic techniques tailored to each client’s unique needs.
With an MSc Distinction in Integrative Coaching and Counselling, Angie is fully accredited across executive coaching, BPS supervision, BACP psychotherapeutic counselling, BDA workplace needs assessment, and TalentPredix™ strengths profiling. An experienced speaker across the media and health sectors, she has sat on corporate panels, delivered NHS regional events for 150+ attendees, and leads train-the-trainer initiatives.
Anita Hayne
Master's certificate in in Executive coaching and mentoring
About Anita
Anita is an accredited professional executive coach and qualified coach supervisor; she has been working with Genius Within as an associate coach since 2012.
Before qualifying as a coach, Anita worked in senior human resources roles for large international technology companies, including training and development. Anita was drawn to coaching because she enjoys the one to one focus and the depth of the relationship you can build. Anita identifies as neurodiverse, she has learned to value her own strengths and finds it rewarding to help others on their journey.
When Anita is coaching at her best she is really engaged in listening, she loves the creativity of finding the right question to ask, or the right coaching framework that suits the moment. Anita finds working with neurodivergent people keeps her constantly curious and interested, because each person is so different, and forges their own unique path.
Anna Theron
Bansri Dodhia
About Bansri
Bansri is passionate about helping people to bring their unique selves forward in all their interactions. She works in partnership with clients to discover their hidden strengths and talents and maximise these to achieve their full potential. Bansri helps clients to dig deeper to work on breaking down barriers that are often stopping them from taking action.
Her background is in Learning and Development, as well as being an ICF Coach. She helps individuals develop or improve their communication and have increased self-awareness and self-confidence with (or without) their neurodivergent traits. Bansri has worked across Professional Services, the NHS, and the Public Sector.
Benjamin Harvey
MA in Economic History and Asian Studies
About Benjamin
Benjamin has over a decade of experience coaching adults and teams within a variety and range of sectors, occupations and experience levels. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and a Mental Health First Aider
Professionally Ben has experience coaching and mentoring individuals with a diverse variety and combination of neuro diverse, neurological and mental health conditions, ranging from ADHD, ASC, OCD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, MS, Acquired Brain Injuries, Stroke, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar, Trauma, PTSD, burnout, rust-out. Personally, has lived experience of navigating life and the workplace with Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Cerebral Palsy.
Bev Southern-Warburton
About Bev
Bev has been coaching since 2014 and has been a Neurodivergent Workplace Coach since 2019. Bev has specific experience working with people with ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, depression and anxiety. Bev also has experience working with people through cognitive challenges with ME, early onset Stroke and the menopause.
Bev’s coaching approach integrates therapeutic and psycho-educational principles, with a strengths focus and combining compassion with gentle challenge to create an environment for authentic growth. Bev helps you to really understand yourself and how your brain is impacting on your feelings and behaviours and help you translate this understanding into strategies to support your wellbeing and productivity.
Bev has a calm and gentle style providing psychological safety for clients to be open.
Bex Harper
PhD in Modern Languages and Cultures, MA in Research German and BA in German and Portuguese
About Bex
Bex helps neurodivergents and chronically ill people to conquer stress, burn out, overwhelm and disorganisation so that they can get back to being in control of their lives. Harnessing the power of nature, Bex nurtures clients back to thriving!
Bex supports those with neurodiversity, chronic fatigue and chronic pain to have a better quality of life. They are also LGBTQIA+ and coach people who struggles with their identity are affecting their health, energy levels and zest for life!
Brendan Dobrowolny
ILM Level 7 in Executive Coaching and Mentoring
About Brendan
Brendan is an experienced executive coach and has been a Genius Within associate since 2014. Brendan’s approach and style works well with individuals who appreciate a challenging yet genial approach in a coaching relationship and those who wish to understand and explore their neurodiverse/divergent traits in order to improve their work targeting and performances over the long term. Brendan works with individuals who want to develop or improve their communication with more authority and impact, as well as those who want to improve their own self awareness, emotional intelligence and personal confidence.
Briony Craig
About Briony
Briony is a qualified solution focused coach who specialises in using a strengths-based approach, with over 4 years coaching experience. She enjoys working in partnership with people, enabling them to gain clarity on their unique strengths, overcome challenges, explore the solutions that work best for them and to successfully reach their desired future way forward.
Caroline Griffiths
Caroline Heard
CPsychol
About Caroline
Caroline has worked as an associate coach for Genius Within since 2013, which is before discovering the extent of neurodivergence in her own family. Funnily enough she was always drawn to the idea of unusual and original minds!
Caroline is a Chartered Psychologist with over 25 years’ experience working in a range of private, public and third sector organisations. Over the years she has coached at all levels and different stages of careers. She also currently leads the MSc Business Occupational and Work Psychology programme at the University of Hertfordshire.
Caroline is passionate about supporting neuro differences in the workplace and the higher education sector. She uses a strengths-based and solution-focused approach in her coaching to help clients identify and achieve their full potential.
When she is coaching at her best, she is using active listening to get to the heart of what they want. Caroline thrives on facilitating her clients to see their clear way forward.
Qualifications:
CPsychol
Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) Post Graduate level qualification in Coaching and Mentoring
Caroline is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is working on her own PhD, focusing on factors influencing career choices.
Charlotte Courtenay
MSc in Work Psychology and MSc in Psychology
About Charlotte
Charlotte is an occupational psychologist with a specialist focus on neurodiversity in the workplace. She supports individuals with ADHD, Dyslexia, and Autism, helping them overcome challenges, develop strategies and build resilience to achieve their full potential.
Her private practice serves clients from diverse industries, including finance, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, energy and emergency services. Charlotte tailors her services to meet each individual’s unique needs, promoting healthy habits through a supportive, respectful, and engaging approach.
Charlotte Rigden
ILM Level 7 Coach
About Charlotte
Charlotte is an Associate Coach who draws on extensive knowledge of a range of coaching approaches, alongside many years of experience in teaching, training and learning. She uses this experience to connect with the people she coaches in a way that feels comfortable, supportive and reassuring.
Charlotte’s coaching practice includes working with clients with a diverse range of requirements and experiences, including Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, Autism, Long Covid, Fibromyalgia, ME, MS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and mental health challenges. She has also supported clients through their personal journeys of aligning their gender identity with their outward expression.