Sophie Doel
About Sophie
Sophie has been working at a coaching for genius within since 2014, working with the client to explore their neuro-diverse traits and support the client in understanding their strengths in the work place.
Sophie takes a whole person approach and blends from her experience in Coaching as well as Counselling to ensure the client is supported and the approach fits for the individual. In a post-pandemic workplace she will assist in helping the client to improve their self-awareness, personal confidence to reach their full potential.
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!
Steve Gardner
MA in Education
About Steve
Steve’s approach to coaching is client-focused i.e., start where the client is; identify needs and offer suitable strategies. It gives him a buzz when he sees people making strides to tackle their issues. He encourages a positive approach, recognising you can’t control others, but you can control your own responses to situations.
Steve has over 6 years coaching experience with Genius Within, and over 20 years senior management experience at 3 different colleges, so he brings extensive experience of working with people at all levels of an organisation. He also has significant teaching experience so enjoys working with groups.
Stuart Hasell
About Stuart
Stuart’s passion is to help and support neurodivergent people and overcome barriers, challenges and sometimes stigma, both personally and professionally. It’s a question of unlocking the potential, find the right application, focus on what the person is good at and support them to excel.
His full-time job is in the Railway sector, where he advocates for the neurodivergent community, champions diversity and inclusion, and advocates for mental health.
He undertakes coaching support with clients from multiple sectors, helping them to achieve higher performance in the workplace.
His previous career spanned 30 years in management consultancy and supply chain where he developed broad and deep expertise in many sector-specific, corporate, operational and performance management disciplines.
Theresa Quinn
MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology
About Theresa
Theresa is a passionate coach who partners with coaching clients so they can use their strengths to establish a flourishing work and home life.
Theresa has had a varied background in education and in running her own business and has experienced many of the highs and lows that life can bring. Being able to draw on her strengths and reframe her thinking has enabled her to thrive during difficult circumstances. Now, being able to bring that experience to coach others to do the same, is what she loves to do.
Theresa particularly enjoys bringing the fun into coaching, especially using nature and Lego. After all, it’s easier to thrive and flourish when we enjoy what we do and are having fun.
Thomas Imfeld
About Thomas
Thomas has a curious and humble mindset and approach to coaching. He supports neurominority clients in clarification processes and supporting client’s problem solving. His focus areas include managing change in the workplace and beyond, navigating office politics and work cultures, career transitions and career progression.
Thomas draws upon international work experience as a leader working with diverse industries and with teams. Made by dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia, Thomas has lived experience with neurodivergent strengths and challenges. Emphasising positive psychology and a strength’s-based approach, Thomas’ clients enjoy the feelings that come from evolving their thinking, making decisions and obtaining beneficial results for themselves.
Vic Brookes
About Vic
Vic Brookes is a qualified counsellor and coach and is currently working on a qualitative post-graduate thesis exploring how ADHD adults experience engagement with professional support.
Vic took a break from work when their daughter was born, and works part-time around her in order to home-educate. Vic has learned a lot about demand avoidance and working with it rather than against it, situational mutism, speech and language differences such as difficulty processing abstract questions (blank levels 3 and 4), gestalt language processing, monotropic thinking, and sensory differences – including interoception. They also have an interest in poly-vagal theory and find that it really helps people understand themselves better.
Wes Wade: USA Only
PhD in Candidate, ELPHD, Counseling & Counselor Education, MA in Career Counseling and MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
About Wes
Wesley has a background in business, higher education, mental health, and substance use work. While working as a career coach at a land grant university in the U.S., Wesley co-created and led a career-focused program for autistic students, led 3 statewide career summits for autistic students, and served on planning committees for state-government programs offering paid internships for autistic college students. Wesley is a trained coach, a licensed clinical mental health counselor, a licensed clinical addictions specialist, and a Ph.D. candidate at NC State University in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development with a concentration in Counseling and Counselor Education.