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.
Jason Colyer
Diploma Cognitive Coaching and Mentoring (SCQF Level 8)
About Jason
Jason has worked in the areas of personal development, mental health and coaching for the last 14 years where he has developed extensive experience of working with anxiety, stress, conflict, career transition and workplace performance. His versatility and open approach have enabled him to work with a broad spectrum of clients including senior level executives, mid-level management and individuals.
Jason is a highly experienced personal development, workplace strategy and career transition coach with a proven ability to facilitate effective change and develop personal resilience for clients from all levels and market sectors, including Banking, Civil Service, NHS, Education and IT. His person centered, empathic and practical approach, combined with his approachable manner creates trust and develops strong working relationships with his clients.
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
Diploma in Effective Coaching and Mentoring
About Joe
What could change if you stopped trying to work around your neurodivergence and started working with it?
Joe works particularly well with thoughtful, ambitious people who sense they are capable of more, but haven’t yet found the way of working that allows them to consistently show it. He helps neurodivergent professionals understand themselves better, find strategies that genuinely work for them, and make meaningful changes in how they think, work and perform.
His coaching combines deep empathy with energy, challenge and a strong belief in what is possible – creating a space that is supportive, but never passive. Joe brings curiosity, creativity and a performance mindset to his work, helping clients think differently, experiment with new possibilities and turn insight into action.
Joshua Okunlola
Jules Sander
About Jules
Jules brings 25 years expertise in the creative industries where she was Head of Production and chaired industry body EVCOM. Her work has ranged from coaching and mentoring newcomers to the industry to guiding senior leaders of global corporations.
Jules has familial experience of autism and is dyspraxic, a discovery which led her to re-qualify in psychotherapy, counselling and coaching. She’s currently running an academic study focused on autistic individuals’ experiences of workplace counselling and coaching, enriching her understanding and practice. Her approach integrates techniques encompassing the whole person and the methods that will work best for them.
Julie White
ILM Level 7 (post-graduate)
About Julie
Julie is a trained professional workplace coach, qualified at Level 7 (post-graduate) with the Institute of Leadership and Management, as well as accredited with the EMCC.
Karen Golightly
Advanced Certificate in Coaching Practice (Association for Coaching Accredited)
About Karen
Karen identifies as neurodivergent and brings a warm, empathetic and evidence‑based approach to coaching. She creates a safe space where clients can discover and explore their strengths and preferences and translate these into practical strategies for support at work.
Katie Wilde
MSc in Occupational Psychology and ILM Level 5 Coaching and Mentoring (on going)
About Katie
Katie has over a decade of experience supporting Neurodiverse adults across a variety of sectors, job roles, and levels of business. Coming from a background in Psychology, Katie specialises in supporting Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, and Autism and works creatively with her clients using a variety of resources, strategies, and skills.
She uses a strength-based approach and treats her clients as equals helping them to achieve what working at their best feels like. She coaches in the way the client needs, adapting where she needs to for the client. She has a bespoke approach based on the needs of the individual and believes with the right coaching that each client has the key inside to unlocking their true potential.
Katie’s soothing, welcoming, and compassionate approach as well as her sense of humour make her coaching sessions relaxed and enjoyable for her clients.
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.
Kevin French
About Kevin
Kevin supports individuals in gaining a deeper understanding of themselves, empowering them to thrive in both their professional and personal lives. He believes in helping people reconnect with their authentic selves rather than reinventing who they are. Through a combination of powerful insights and practical strategies, Kevin enables clients to unmask their strengths and unlock their potential.
Lynda Freeman
Mandy Dennison
Master's Degree in Education
About Mandy
Mandy works with talented professionals, securing their skills and supporting them to reach for the top. She has a holistic way of working, ensuring people are supported to manage their emotional, physical, and mental health. She is passionate about helping people achieve their career goals.
Mandy has coached new staff entering professions, those wishing to transition to middle management and those making the transition to senior management. She has also coached neurodiverse young people and adults, with a whole spectrum of differing abilities, but has the greatest experience with those in the early stages of their careers.
Marguerite Farmer
MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology
About Marguerite
Marguerite is an experienced coach who enjoys helping people uncover and make best use of their strengths and talents to build effective strategies and increase self-confidence. Previously in school senior leadership, she now coaches leaders across a variety of industries.
Marguerite has a flexible approach to her coaching, adapting how she works to her clients’ preferred ways of thinking. If they think best whilst moving around, drawing on large sheets of paper or jotting ideas on post-its; then that can happen.
Marguerite’s clients say that she is calm, friendly and creates an environment where thinking time and reflection come naturally.
Martina Foreman
About Martina
Martina finds coaching incredibly rewarding. Seeing her clients unlock their potential and find new ways of doing things to reduce stress and improve productivity is her goal. With the use of targeted exercises and coaching techniques she guides and facilitates change. Her knowledge and experience as well as her sense of humour make her easy to work with. As a freelance associate coach for neurodiverse adults in the workplace, as well as working with young offenders in prison, the role Martina plays in the transformation and well-being of her clients is her passion.
In her years of coaching Martina has delivered over 2000 hours of 1-2-1 coaching to those who are neurodivergent. She came to Genius Within with a broad range of skills from a background in customer services, conferencing, and also some time as a wellness therapist.
Meghan Barbano
About Meghan
If you’ve ever sat across from a provider who didn’t quite get it – who nodded along but couldn’t feel the exhaustion, the sensory overload, the way your body and brain don’t always cooperate with the world’s expectations – Meghan gets it. Not from a textbook, but from living it.
Michelle Doll
BA in Social Psychology
Miranda Pretorius
M.A. in Clinical Psychology
About Miranda
Miranda is a seasoned clinical psychologist with more than 33 years of experience, dedicated to supporting individuals across a wide spectrum of psychological needs. Since the end of 2022, she has been part of Genius Within, working as an Executive Coach with a particular focus on professionals navigating neurodiverse challenges.
In her private practice, she provides therapeutic support for clients with Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, and those with neurodivergent profiles. Her coaching and clinical work are deeply informed by her keen interest in Pharmacology and Neurology, ensuring that her strategies are both evidence-based and attuned to the latest developments in brain science. She stays abreast if research.