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.
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 Young
About Sarah
Sarah is passionate about developing people to be the best they can be. She is a highly experienced and enthusiastic mentor, coach, facilitator and workplace needs assessor. With extensive experience of working with neurominorities, and in the fields of mental health and social isolation. Sarah has a particular interest in supporting and enabling those most vulnerable to make the most of their abilities by understanding their unique qualities and strengths. She is highly adaptable and experienced in working in a variety of environments and applying various styles to best meet the needs of my clients. There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach for Sarah.
Simon Harris
About Simon
Simon, who is dyspraxic himself, coaches in order to help people get on in life. He enjoys helping people view their situations from different perspectives, breaking things down and finding strategies that will work for them. Coaching is often situational and Simon makes good use of reflective techniques that can be deployed in the future.
Having started out in career coaching, which Simon still loves, he is always keen to help people navigate the barriers that stop them progressing in the way they would like. Taking a person-centred approach he also enjoys helping people rediscover joy in what they do and moving away from problems or barriers that have confront them.
Stephanie Benfield
About Stephanie
Stephanie is an ICF-accredited Master Certified Coach, specialising in autism and ADHD. As a trained trauma-responsive, neurodiversity-strategy coach, Stephanie supports clients in increasing self-awareness, understanding and confidence while also creating practical strategies to move forward.
Being autistic and dyspraxic, Stephanie draws on both personal experience and expertise to create a safe, supportive, conversational coaching space. She employs evidence-based coaching frameworks and neuroscience insights to tailor her approach to each client’s unique needs.
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.
Terri Donohue
About Terri
Terri is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with over 3,000 hours of coaching experience and a credential in Neuro-Inclusive Systems Design from the University of British Columbia. She specializes in supporting adults with ADHD, Autism, AuDHD, executive functioning challenges, and learning differences, as well as neurodivergent executives and senior leaders navigating team building.
Her trauma-informed, inclusive approach centres on mental well-being — emotional regulation, stress and anxiety management, and navigating transitions and challenges through mind, body, and purpose-driven strategies. Before transitioning to coaching, Terri spent 23 years as an Emmy-nominated makeup artist in the entertainment industry, where she developed strengths in creative innovation and collaborative partnership. Her neuroscience-based philosophy is simple: no two brains are alike. She empowers clients to embrace their authenticity and build lives and workplaces where their minds can truly thrive.
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.
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.