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.
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.
Ruth Huckle
ILM Certificate in Coaching for Neurodiversity
About Ruth
Ruth is an experienced work place strategy coach and music teacher with a compassionate, empathic, and enabling approach.
She works creatively with a range of skills/resources across a broad spectrum of clients/students.
Ruth offers a safe, open, and honest space where clients can relax and express themselves in their own way to realise, release and embrace the gifts within.
Being acknowledged, seen, and heard with a desire to understand is always at the heart of Ruth’s sessions.
Clients often report increased awareness, light bulb moments, and deeper understanding at identity level.
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.
Sean Manning
About Sean
Sean coaches from lived experience. He has learned to live with stress, anxiety, depression, and moderate ADD since he was in high school.
He had a haemorrhagic stroke (Acquired Brain Injury) at 22 while getting his Masters in Accounting at Boston College. He finished his Masters while learning to walk and use his left arm again. Sean went on to work at PwC for a year as an Accountant, leaving to have his seventh brain surgery in 2022.
And now, he coaches using all of that lived experience, hoping to connect on a personal level with his Genius Within clients.
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 coach with dyspraxia, specialising in supporting introverts, creatives and quietly ambitious individuals to achieve their goals, increase confidence and gain clarity when unsure of the next steps.
Her coaching style is holistic, going deep into mindset, exploring her clients environment and looking at what they are telling themselves, but also practical coaching to get from here to where they want to be in the most effective way. As well as goal setting and planning, she will also put in place the accountability methods that motivate her clients.
Stephanie is an experienced project manager, team leader and business owner and work with clients to overcome challenges such as time management, prioritisation and organisation, burnout, team dynamics, increasing confidence, decision-making, being a quiet leader and mapping career goals.
