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.
Morwenna Stewart
About Morwenna
Whether you’re self-diagnosed or formally diagnosed neurodivergent, you can feel intense emotions or burnout. You might not know your strengths or how to manage your energy. Or you might be proud of your neurodivergence and ready for the next career step. Morwenna’s with you all the way – as an AuDHDer herself, parent to an ND adult, and her experience with hundreds of clients.
Morwenna loves to help you explore identity, strengths, struggles and even any painful bits. Tears and laughter are normal in coaching, but Morwenna prevents sessions from becoming counselling or unfocused chat, and instead keeps you moving towards your goals. Morwenna maintains ethics, boundaries and concrete outcomes, while allowing real emotions and even fun!
Nancy Procter
About Nancy
Nancy Proctor is a professionally qualified workplace coaching with a Diplomas in Coaching Psychology, Core Transformation and NLP and training with the Association for Coaching. Nancy has been coaching for many years across a variety of disciplines not just the workplace but also in health and fitness, where the motivational and habit forming practices are a significant cross over.
Nancy is inspired to work with neurodivergent clients through the lived experiences in her family of neurodivergence. In particular, she is inspired by her children, who are young neurodivergent adults emerging into the world of work, experiencing the hopes and opportunity of an emerging career path, but also the barriers and challenges. Nancy seeks to contribute to a more inclusive society where neurodivergent people can thrive and have work which is a pleasure, rewarding and inclusive.
Narinder Sheena
EMCC Practitioner
About Narinder
Narinder is an experienced coach who supports people navigating chronic health challenges, neurodiversity, workplace pressures and periods of change. Her approach is person-centred, compassionate and practical, helping individuals better understand themselves, recognise their strengths and identify realistic steps towards meaningful change.
With over 10 years’ coaching experience, Narinder has trained in a range of coaching frameworks, which are ICF accredited, PCI accredited in Health Coaching, NLP and SIRPA. Incorporating neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and somatic awareness. Before moving into coaching, she spent approximately 15 years working as a Personal Injury lawyer, and legal coach/mentor, giving her valuable insight into professional environments and workplace challenges.
Nicola Hickinbotham
About Nicola
Nicola is passionate about helping, developing and supporting people to be the best they can be. Nicola thrives on helping people with Neurodiversity learn to develop strategies for their challenges but also enhancing their strengths. Hearing people say ‘I acknowledge my brain is wired differently and not wrong’ is an absolute pleasure for Nicola to hear.
Nicola works with people to develop strategies for time management, focus (control and or implementation), organisation, self-belief, confidence, identifying their strengths and many more for them to release how they can work at their best and what they need to achieve this.
Nikki Culverwell
MSc Applied Positive Psychology & Coaching Psychology
About Nikki
Nikki is a Senior EMCC Accredited Positive Psychology Coach and Consultant, working across sectors including manufacturing, engineering, education, health, and the charity sector. With over 20 years’ experience in these environments – including large-scale transformation projects – and 11 years as a coach, she specialises in resilience and wellbeing in the workplace. Nikki holds an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology and is passionate about supporting individuals experiencing overwhelm, pressure, and change. She supports leaders working in high-pressure roles to build resilience, clarity, and a greater sense of calm, enabling more sustainable ways of working and leading.
Nina Strauss
About Nina
Nina is a transformative and neurodiversity-informed coach specialising in supporting neurodivergent professionals, particularly those with ADHD, working in the tech industry across sales, marketing and customer success. She creates a safe, supportive space where clients feel seen, understood and empowered to explore what matters most. Her approach combines curiosity, intuition and flexibility, using metaphors to unlock new perspectives and help clients gain clarity, recognise their strengths and move forward with confidence, authenticity and purpose.
She holds an Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching from the Animas Centre for Coaching, as well as specialist training in Neurodiversity in Coaching. She has three years’ coaching experience and is the founder of Journey to Change, alongside her role as an Associate Coach at Genius Within.
Peter Urey
About Peter
Peter has an impressive 30 years of extensive experience in IT Sales, Marketing, and Management, which has allowed him to cultivate a robust skill set in the technology industry. His expertise extends to leadership and development, as he underwent training under the prestigious Hewlett Packard LEAD program, achieving UK Director level proficiency. Additionally, Peter holds a degree in Law from Christ Church, Oxford University, further augmenting his versatile background.
Since 2006, he has found great success as an independent business coach, catering to esteemed clients at the Board level, including prominent companies like Symantec, Epson, and Canon. Peter’s coaching approach is refined, as he received training from Marian Way, the author of Clean Approaches for Coaches, in Clean Language, Symbolic Modelling, and Clean Space techniques.
Polly Howard-De La Mare
C.Psychol. and ACC accredited coach
About Polly
Polly is a Chartered and Business Psychologist with 18 years’ experience in leadership development and executive coaching. Polly supports senior leaders to strengthen their leadership capability, enhance strategic thinking, and build the confidence and resilience required to progress in their careers.
Polly supports organisations to develop inclusive environments. Her coaching practice spans a wide range of industries, including legal services, financial services, the Civil Service, engineering, retail, charities and the energy sector.
Rachael Ward
ILM Level 5 in Coaching and Mentoring
About Rachael
Rachael is an experienced Executive Coach who has been a Genius Within associate since 2016. Rachael’s coaching practise focuses on effective communication, well -being and personal effectiveness. There is often crossover in these areas when clients are feeling overwhelmed and are seeking a way of improving focus and productivity and rediscovering what they enjoy about their working life.
With a background in senior leadership in the voluntary sector and lived experience of neuro diversity, Rachael is passionate about supporting Genius Within clients to identify and use their strengths and develop a range of strategies and tools to take them forward in their future careers.
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.
Rachel Westerbeek
About Rachel
Rachel is an AuDHD, ADHD, and Autism specialist coach, helping you discover ways to navigate neurodivergent life.
Rebecca Daniel
MA in Education
About Rebecca
Rebecca Daniel is an experienced coach, coach supervisor and trainer with over 12 years of experience in the education sector and extensive experience supporting neurodivergent individuals in the workplace.
She specialises in empowering clients through tailored coaching that enhances wellbeing, confidence, resilience and communication. Rebecca works with leaders, executives, and individuals within a range of sectors helping them navigate challenges and achieve their goals. As an accredited coach (ICF PCC, EMCC Senior Practitioner) and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, she uses a blend of positive psychology, NLP, and neuroscience to evoke awareness and facilitate meaningful change. Rebecca also holds an associate board member position for the ICF UK chapter.
Robin Macdonald
B.Sc. (Hons) in Science and Management
About Robin
With a background in management in fast paced international businesses, Robin is a Performance and Leadership Coach with global accreditation from the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
He has a warm, versatile, yet focussed coaching style, where he adapts his approach to suit you and your circumstances.
Robin has a passion for getting the best out of people, helping them succeed and will naturally facilitate your thoughts.
No matter your situation, job or career, you will feel appreciated and supported as you create an environment to move forward, achieve your goals and embrace your future.
Rukshana Horwood
BA (Hons) in Psychology
About Rukshana
With a background in Psychology (B.A Hons), Rukshana has a passion for supporting individuals, teams and organisations to understand and build awareness around their own or colleagues neurodiversity.
Rukshana is fortunate enough to work with neurodivergent individuals to support them, help managers and individuals to understand each other better through co-coaching as well as raise awareness across organisations and diverse industries spanning both the private and public sectors. Rukshana is extremely fortunate to work on some projects for CJS, our Criminal Justice System, supporting ex-custodial clients who are neurodivergent.
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.
Sabrina Ellis
Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring
Sally Chapman
About Sally
Experienced Coach helping neurodivergent professionals thrive with clarity, confidence, and self-belief.
Sarah Louise Walsh
MSc in Organisational Behaviour
About Sarah
Sarah is an experienced coach specialising in supporting individuals with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and those seeking career development.
With a background in change, coaching, and transformation, they have a lot of expertise in guiding clients to meet their goals and identify strategies that work for them.
Sarah’s coaching style is reflective, relaxed, and purposeful, drawing on an extensive toolkit of resources and approaches to meet each client’s unique needs. They are both professional and approachable, creating a safe, reflective space where clients can explore their next steps with confidence.
Sarah Walsh
MSc in Psychology
About Sarah
Sarah thrives on helping others to overcome problems so they can succeed, particularly neurodivergent individuals and those with chronic health issues, as she has personal experience in both these areas. She decided to train as a coach after having coaching herself, which helped her to achieve things she’d thought were impossible. Her coaching style is firmly embedded in an evidence-based approach (she gives a serious side-eye to “positive vibes only” messages) as well as a lot of humour.
Sarah has a rich and varied career history, including work across the Tech, Healthcare, and Education sectors. Having had a “later in life” diagnosis of ADHD herself, she is
particularly keen to support recently diagnosed adults and those exploring the possibility of being neurodivergent.