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.
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.
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.
Ermine Benjamin
About Ermine
Ermine is also a teacher and she has been teaching dyslexic children for many years. When she is working with them, she uses her active listening skills to really hear what they are saying and adjust her teaching style according to their learning styles. Ermine also worked with individuals from the health and finance sector as well as education.
What Ermine likes about coaching is supporting people to move towards their goals, seeing those special moments when people get an insight that helps them to move forward in their journey and giving people the opportunity to set their own agendas. But most importantly, it’s the forward focus where clients are not dwelling on the past where things have gone wrong, they focus on their strengths to move forward.
When Ermine is coaching at her best she gives her clients her undivided attention, she is an active listener, asks questions that will encourage them to look more deeply at the issues they are discussing, feedbacks on what she has heard so she is sure of her understanding and they are reassured that they are being heard.
Gizem Gokcimen
BSc, MSc, MBPsS
About Gizem
Gizem holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Clinical Psychology, where she developed a deep, evidence-based understanding of neurodivergence.
Building on this foundation, she completed an ILM Level 7 qualification in Senior and Executive Coaching and Mentoring. Her professional portfolio is currently under assessment toward achieving Chartered Coaching Psychologist status through the British Psychological Society.
With over 12 years of full-time experience, she has dedicated her career to coaching neurodivergent individuals across all stages of life and career. She has worked with more than 600 clients and completed over 2,000 hours of coaching, supporting everyone from neurodivergent young adults navigating their first steps into employment to senior leaders and executives within large organisations. Her experience spans a wide range of sectors, including education, technology, financial and health.
As well as delivering 1-2-1 coaching she also has a great understanding of reasonable adjustments in the workplace and delivering co coaching sessions to include managers in the process.
As an ADHDer herself, she brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work. She is deeply passionate about unlocking her clients’ potential and creating spaces where they can perform at their best without the pressure to mask.
With first-hand experience of working across different cultural contexts, she is skilled in adapting her coaching approach to honour individual backgrounds, identities, and strengths.
Hazal Seyitoglu
About Hazal
Hazal is a Coach with over five years’ experience working with adults, currently completing her ILM Level 7 qualification in Executive Coaching and Mentoring. Her background spans both educational and occupational psychology, including earlier work delivering interventions within social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) school settings.
Hazal specialises in supporting neurodivergent individuals in the workplace, as well as those navigating life and career transitions. Her approach focuses on helping clients understand how their minds work, enabling them to build lives and careers that align with and honour their natural strengths.
She has a particular passion for exploring patterns, meaning and identity within coaching. Hazal supports clients to reflect deeply, uncover their unique ways of thinking and connect with what she often describes as their “natural genius.” Her work is holistic, thoughtfully integrating factors such as cultural influences and personal context to provide a richer, more nuanced understanding of each client’s experience.
Known for her curiosity, empathy and reflective style, Hazal creates a coaching space where clients feel genuinely seen and understood. Her aim is to empower individuals and teams to move forward with clarity and confidence toward outcomes that truly matter to them.
Hirra Khan
About Hirra
Hirra is a neurodiversity coach who supports individuals to better understand how they work, build confidence, and develop practical strategies that help them thrive both at work and in everyday life. Her coaching approach is warm, collaborative, and strengths-based, creating a safe space for clients to explore challenges, identify solutions, and achieve meaningful goals.
She works with a wide range of neurodivergent individuals, including those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and anxiety-related challenges. Through coaching, Hirra helps clients develop self-awareness, improve organisation and time management, manage overwhelm, build confidence, and advocate for their needs in the workplace.
Jacqui Manning
About Jacqui
Jacqui is a Work Psychologist and Coach who specialises in neurodiversity, executive coaching, career development and soft skills coaching.
Jacqui has a background in senior leadership in the higher education and not-for-profit sectors where she led and developed teams and drove organisational development initiatives.
She has a fluid approach to her coaching, working in partnership with her clients to help them to achieve their goals. Jacqui loves helping people to uncover and make the best use of their strengths, talents and potential, whatever stage of life they may be at.
Jacqui’s clients say that she creates an environment of trust where they are able to look at things differently and to reflect.
Jasmine Navarro
About Jasmine
Jasmine is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with six years of coaching experience, supporting teenagers and adults to develop confidence, resilience, emotional wellbeing, and self-belief. With over 20 years’ experience as a qualified teacher and having lived and worked in 11 countries across three continents, Jasmine brings a global perspective and a deep understanding of diverse individuals and environments.
Jasmine takes a strengths-based, client-centred approach, using powerful questioning, coaching methodologies, and visualisation to help clients gain clarity, overcome limiting beliefs, and create meaningful change. She has particular experience supporting neurodiverse individuals and has developed and delivered wellbeing, resilience, confidence, and neurodiversity programmes for schools, organisations, and employees.
Joshua Okunlola
Nicole Etienne
MSc Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology
About Nicole
Nicole, an EMCC-accredited Senior Practitioner with over a decade of expertise, empowers professionals to thrive. Nicole specialises in supporting busy professionals who seek to maximize their potential and overcome obstacles. Her coaching extends to both neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals, working effectively in both 1:1 and group settings.
Trauma-informed and holistic in approach, her focus lies on fostering well-being, managing stress, navigating transitions, and building confidence. Drawing upon a diverse background encompassing teaching, care, administration, accounts, HR, sales, and marketing, Nicole brings a well-rounded perspective. For those already engaged in therapy, Nicole offers coaching that aligns with existing therapeutic goals.
Nicole guides individuals toward flourishing with a holistic, solutions-focused approach. Her calm, warm, and supportive presence, weaving evidence-based positive psychology and coaching practices into personalized sessions, helps clients tap into their strengths and navigate challenges with confidence. Nicole offers supervision to coaches.
Priya Hunt
About Priya
Priya is an accredited executive coach (Associate Certified Coach, International Coach Federation) with 30 plus years of global corporate leadership experience which spans 4 different industries (Airlines, Telecommunications, Utilities and Healthcare) and 84 countries. Priya is passionate about people development, customer experience and transformation and has worked at director and board level and sponsored organisational culture change, particularly around inclusion and diversity.
Priya’s coaching approach is eclectic, creative, and humanistic, focused on the individual in front of her. She believes in continuous development and am continuing her academic journey with a Masters in Coaching and Behavioural change, followed by doctoral research.
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 Wissing
MSc in Career Management and Coaching
About Sarah
Sarah is an experienced coach with an MSc in Career Management and Coaching, and two Post Graduate Certificates in Neurodiversity Coaching and Coaching Supervisions. Sarah has worked in a variety of sectors including health care, business, education, primarily in Human Resources roles and coaching roles.
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.
Thomas Imfeld
About Thomas
Thomas has a curious and humble mindset and approach to coaching. He supports neurominority clients in clarification processes and supporting client’s problem solving. His focus areas include managing change in the workplace and beyond, navigating office politics and work cultures, career transitions and career progression.
Thomas draws upon international work experience as a leader working with diverse industries and with teams. Made by dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia, Thomas has lived experience with neurodivergent strengths and challenges. Emphasising positive psychology and a strength’s-based approach, Thomas’ clients enjoy the feelings that come from evolving their thinking, making decisions and obtaining beneficial results for themselves.
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.