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
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.
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.
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.
Beth Hughes
ILM level 7 in Executive Coaching
About Beth
Beth has been working in private practice since 2016, coaching people in teams and leaders and specialising in neurodiversity. Before this, Beth was a careers coach working with adults and young people.
Beth passionately believes that everyone can thrive in work and life and that we just need to work out the conditions we need for that to happen. Beth uses a range of techniques focusing on individual strengths to create the conditions for sustained change. Beth is an accredited coach and group facilitator of over 20 years helping navigate change in careers and work-based and professional development coaching.
Gaining a recent diagnosis in later life and having a neurodiverse family has given Beth a deeper understanding of the challenges in the workplace and society for those who think and experience the world differently.
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.
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.
Christine Lennon
About Christine
Christine is an experienced workplace strategy coach who has worked as an associate coach for GW for the last 7 years.
Christine is experienced in working with a wide range of neurodiverse conditions in the workplace and she enjoys helping people to recognise their own strengths and abilities, to have a belief in themselves and to work towards and have the confidence to achieve their desired goals. Having spent many years working in the public and voluntary sectors she has a special interest in these areas.
Christoffer DeGraal
About Christoffer
Christoffer has built his career in helping people from all walks of life discover, understand and implement best practice changes. He is a coach, facilitator and musician with over 20 years experience in both personal development and group coaching, with qualifications in relational dynamics coaching.
Christoffer has experience in banking, professional services, defence, education, NHS and homelessness. Christoffer has lived experience of neurodivergence, managing long covid and supporting those seeking to destigmatise mental health. Christoffer has long been a proponent of the social model of disability, from his days creating art projects as a form of inclusive activism, touring Europe and South America. Christoffer uses creative tools to facilitate coaching conversations, as well as technology.
Christoffer believes we can all work at our best, but it sometimes requires a mind-set shift and strategies that are a close match with how we think. He also believes we need to be able to navigate and discuss the often unspoken limiting rules, behaviours and environment we may face in today’s workplace. When Christoffer is coaching at his best, he is like a terrier, friendly but rigorous about making sure people know what they are doing and why they are doing it, checking and tweaking to make sure that outcomes are making a difference.
Claire Rostance
ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring (Clean Language)
About Claire
As an experienced accredited coach and NLP Practitioner, Claire is passionate about enabling people to be their best and achieve their full potential. Creating a safe space for clients to share their experiences and challenges and enabling them to find the answers. She uses a strengths-based approach empowering clients to create their own personalised strategies.
Clare Broadhurst
MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and in Coaching Psychology
About Clare
Clare is an EMCC Accredited Coach. Clare uses her knowledge from her MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology to help individuals, teams and organisations flourish.
She has a warm and flexible approach to her coaching and helps her clients uncover their strengths to build effective strategies to flourish and thrive at work and at home.
Clare has over 25 years of working in the education sector as a teacher and a senior leader. During this time Clare coached a wide variety of individuals and supported organisations to develop a coaching culture.
Clients describe Clare as a compassionate and kind coach who creates a safe space for them to think and reflect.
David Rendle
Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring
About David
David is an Association for Coaching accredited executive coach and a qualified coach supervisor. He had a long career in secondary teaching and subsequently in teacher training and school improvement.
David has coached with Genius Within for six years. He has his own coaching business and has coached teachers and other professionals, and he delivers academic coaching to younger students.
David has had a long experience of supporting neurodivergent students through his teaching and he has enhanced these skills and awareness through his coach training and subsequent CPD.
Dr. Jane Freeman-Hunt
About Dr. Jane
Jane has got a vast majority of experience in coaching. She has got a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Doctorate in Coaching. She is an accredited coach with the Association of Coaching and with the Association of Executive Coaching.
Jane started coaching when she was working in IT sector as a head of operations for Nokia Enterprise Architecture Team. In this role she was heading up for 200 autistic people. Jane has worked with a range of clients all the way up to board members and executives from different industries such as Health, IT, Finance, Public Sector and Consultancies. Jane herself also worked for lots of big corporate companies at a board level therefore she can relate to anyone wherever they might be on the ladder.
Jane is autistic and she has lived experience of neurodiversity in her family.
When Jane is coaching at her best she is creative, lively, chatty and engaged. She is good at coming up with new solutions using her creativity. She really enjoys making a difference and, in some cases, changing people’s lives.
Elisabeth Goodman
MSc in Information Science
About Elisabeth
Elisabeth works mainly with people who are neurodivergent, and especially those who are Autistic ADHDers (AuDHD) and climate / nature activists, helping clients to connect with what matters, all the possibilities available to them, what they can and want to do, and anchor that to make it happen.
She helps her clients to understand themselves, develop their self-awareness, lean into their strengths and develop strategies for their challenges. The difference between these can be particularly pronounced in spiky neurodivergent profiles.
Emma Wee
About Emma
Emma champions the resilience and self-reliance that understanding one’s own neurodiversity can bring an individual, and has seen many clients find a new sense of purpose by being able to embrace fully who they are, rather than being defined by a label. Her own neurodiversity has allowed her to thrive in different worlds of work’ because of the way her brain works, not in spite of it.
She is also keen to support women who are peri and post menopausal in giving them strategies and a space to be heard at a time of both physical and mental upheaval.
When Emma is coaching at her best…..She is like a spaghetti sorting device; able to untangle the different strands of clients’ conditions , circumstances and personality traits to unknot problems and streamline their working process and emotional resilience.