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
ILM Level 7 Executive Coaching
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.
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.
Aleena Malik
About Aleena
Aleena is a Coach at Genius Within with almost five years’ experience supporting neurodivergent adults in the workplace. She works with clients navigating ADHD, autism, dyslexia, anxiety, communication, confidence and workplace strategies.
Her coaching is warm, reflective and practical, with a focus on helping clients understand themselves more deeply and work in ways that feel manageable and authentic. Aleena supports clients to slow down, untangle what feels overwhelming and explore how their brain, environment and role interact. Through coaching, she helps individuals recognise their strengths and develop strategies that feel realistic, sustainable and meaningful to them.
Aleigh Sydenham
IAPC&M Accredited Practitioner Coach
About Aleigh
Aleigh offers a professional background in Human Resource Management, specialising in workplace coaching, neurodiversity and mental well-being. She is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and an IAPC&M Accredited Practitioner Coach, with over 2500 hours of coaching practice. She completed her Ph.D. at Plymouth University exploring the impact of workplace coaching on mental wellbeing.
She has been an Associate of Genius Within since 2015 and during this time has enjoyed working with a variety of people to develop a greater awareness and appreciation of neurodiversity, enabling them to recognise and play to their strengths so that they flourish and thrive in their working lives. Alongside her coaching practice, she is a Programme Director and Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter where she manages the delivery of the MSc Human Resource Management Online and Apprenticeship Programmes.
Allison Lindsay
Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation)
About Allison
Allison is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and has over 20 years of coaching experience. She specialises in working with neurodivergent clients and has supported over 400 clients as an Associate Coach with Genius Within, across a range of sectors including emergency services, professional services, corporate organisations and healthcare.
Alongside her coaching experience, Allison has over 20 years of senior-level corporate experience, having worked across insurance, professional services, finance, conference production and change management. She now runs her own business.
Angie Alderman
Level 7 Executive Coach, Supervisor, Workplace Needs Assessor, and Trainer
About Angie
Angie is a Level 7 Executive Coach, Supervisor, Workplace Needs Assessor, and Trainer supporting high achievers and executives, including those navigating ADHD, Autism, and mental health challenges across all ages. Bringing 20 plus years of expertise across corporate, creative, and third sectors, her integrative approach combines evidence-based coaching with psychotherapeutic techniques tailored to each client’s unique needs.
With an MSc Distinction in Integrative Coaching and Counselling, Angie is fully accredited across executive coaching, BPS supervision, BACP psychotherapeutic counselling, BDA workplace needs assessment, and TalentPredix™ strengths profiling. An experienced speaker across the media and health sectors, she has sat on corporate panels, delivered NHS regional events for 150+ attendees, and leads train-the-trainer initiatives.
Anna Whitehead
MA Honours in Psychology
About Anna
Anna is keen to use her coaching skills to help people improve their mental wellbeing and to create more inclusive communities for neurodivergent individuals.
Clients have described Anna’s coaching as calm, non-judgemental and honest. Her warmth and empathy enable her to quickly build relationships of trust. Anna designs with clients how they will work together. She creates a safe space for whatever arises during coaching sessions. Coaching exercises can help clients explore stress, anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, self-criticism and inner dialogues. Coaching approaches which resonate most for Anna focus on the whole person, evoking awareness and being in the moment.
Bansri Dodhia
About Bansri
Bansri is passionate about helping people to bring their unique selves forward in all their interactions. She works in partnership with clients to discover their hidden strengths and talents and maximise these to achieve their full potential. Bansri helps clients to dig deeper to work on breaking down barriers that are often stopping them from taking action.
Her background is in Learning and Development, as well as being an ICF Coach. She helps individuals develop or improve their communication and have increased self-awareness and self-confidence with (or without) their neurodivergent traits. Bansri has worked across Professional Services, the NHS, and the Public Sector.
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!
Briony Craig
About Briony
Briony is an experienced solution-focused neurodiversity coach helping people harness strengths, overcome challenges, and move forward with confidence.
Briony’s Coaching Motivation
“I am motivated to help neurodivergent people recognise their strengths, navigate challenges in ways that work for them, and build confidence to achieve their goals.
I am curious, encouraging and focused on creating a supportive space where people gain insight, discover solutions and take confident steps forward.”
Caroline Cooper
BSc in Psychology and MSc in Nutrition
About Caroline
Caroline is an experienced, qualified coach with a Diploma in Transformational coaching and is accredited with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. She is a member of the British Psychological Society’s Coaching Division and a Mental Health First Aider.
Prior to becoming a coach, Caroline held leadership roles in business including Managing Director, where she led senior teams, managed operations and business development, and directed organisational change.
Caroline supports clients in understanding and celebrating their neurodivergent ways of being in the world, in connecting with their purpose and gaining clarity around their strengths and challenges. She aims to create a safe and empathetic coaching relationship with her clients, guiding them to explore their ways of being in the world, and seeing themselves with greater clarity and compassion. It is from this new vantage point that change is possible. Caroline prides herself on being able to meet clients where they are, helping them feel truly seen and fully accepted for all that they are.
Caroline Heard
CPsychol
About Caroline
Caroline has worked as an associate coach for Genius Within since 2013, which is before discovering the extent of neurodivergence in her own family. Funnily enough she was always drawn to the idea of unusual and original minds!
Caroline is a Chartered Psychologist with over 25 years’ experience working in a range of private, public and third sector organisations. Over the years she has coached at all levels and different stages of careers. She also currently leads the MSc Business Occupational and Work Psychology programme at the University of Hertfordshire.
Caroline is passionate about supporting neuro differences in the workplace and the higher education sector. She uses a strengths-based and solution-focused approach in her coaching to help clients identify and achieve their full potential.
When she is coaching at her best, she is using active listening to get to the heart of what they want. Caroline thrives on facilitating her clients to see their clear way forward.
Qualifications:
CPsychol
Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) Post Graduate level qualification in Coaching and Mentoring
Caroline is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is working on her own PhD, focusing on factors influencing career choices.
Charlotte Rigden
ILM Level 7 Coach
About Charlotte
Charlotte is an Associate Coach who draws on extensive knowledge of a range of coaching approaches, alongside many years of experience in teaching, training and learning. She uses this experience to connect with the people she coaches in a way that feels comfortable, supportive and reassuring.
Charlotte’s coaching practice includes working with clients with a diverse range of requirements and experiences, including Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, Autism, Long Covid, Fibromyalgia, ME, MS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and mental health challenges. She has also supported clients through their personal journeys of aligning their gender identity with their outward expression.
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 Jackson
About Claire
Claire discovered a lot about herself on the journey she took with her neurodivergent son and received her own dyslexia diagnosis later in life. She has learned to truly value and play to her strengths and, as such, is passionate about supporting neurodifferences in the workplace.
Claire values whole-person and strengths-based coaching approaches to help her clients achieve their full potential. She facilitates space for her clients to reflect, discovers new perspectives, develops strategies, builds confidence and create new opportunities. Claire has a calm, empathetic, and reflective coaching style and uses various coaching tools that complement her clients’ learning styles and development needs.
Prior to setting up her private coaching practice, Claire gained extensive experience in leadership and management roles within large and complex organisations, where coaching became core to her leadership style.
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.
Clare Maberly
MSc Occupational Psychology
About Clare
Clare supports senior leaders, emerging leaders, women in leadership and neurodivergent professionals navigating complexity, transition and increased responsibility. Her coaching approach is calm, reflective and psychologically grounded, creating a high‑trust space where clients can think deeply, feel understood and be thoughtfully challenged. She blends evidence‑based psychology with practical, interventional coaching to help clients build insight, shift mindset and achieve sustainable behavioural change.
Claudine Charles
MSc in Human Resources Development
About Claudine
Claudine is an accredited Executive Coach and Level 4 Workplace Needs Assessor, who’s passionate about supporting people to operate at their best. She has extensive experience working with employees and leaders with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and dyscalculia, as well as those exploring their neurodivergence at work for the first time, partnering with clients to help them reflect on their strengths, challenges, and opportunities at work. She supports clients to gain insight into how they can adapt their ways of working, build on the strengths associated with their neurotype, and develop practical workplace strategies to improve their performance and wellbeing.
Claudine thrives on creating a safe space for clients to be comfortable and transparent, where they can work through any challenges or capitalise on a change or opportunity. She strongly believes that people are “response-able”, whole and creative, so she regularly partners with clients to support them in leveraging their strengths, unravelling any limiting beliefs, identifying practical workplace adjustments, as well as “holding up” and simplifying their options, resources, and possibilities. Claudine uses a range of coaching styles and methodologies with clients based on their needs, goals and preferences. As a result, clients find her warm, authentic, supportive, encouraging, open, frank and highly skilled in her area of expertise.
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.