Aishwarya Srinivasan
MSc in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology and BSc in Psychology
About Aishwarya
Aishwarya is an experienced career coach and mental health consultant, working across the UK, US, and India. Their coaching practice has focused on working with neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ individuals looking for workplace and career support. As a Workplace Strategy Coach at Genius Within, they aim to continue providing coaching support to neurodivergent individuals and look forward to engaging with the diverse community of coaches who bring their depth of practice to this space. They aim for coaching to be a space of learning and support where they will work together with you to co-create structure and facilitating strategies. Their approach to coaching is thus flexible, as well as a dynamic and reflective space for clients to grow.
Aishwarya is also pursuing a PhD in Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London with a focus on ADHD careers. They have a background in research and practice with communities, culture, identity, and mental health. Their previous experience has included work with organisations to conduct mental health research for educational, tech, and social justice spaces.
Azaria O’Dame
Master's Degree in Psychology
About Azaria
Azaria has a Master’s Degree in Psychology and has been coaching for several years. Azaria has always been drawn to working with neurodivergent people. She started her career in Education where she found that the neurodivergent children really needed allyship. She has moved into coaching adults and has a lot of experience working in communities marginalised by poverty. Azaria has also worked single parents and those who have been isolated through displacement.
When Azaria is coaching at her best she is listening intently, and facilitating solutions to pop up that apply to work, but also into their personal lives. Azaria really enjoys it when a client comes to a solution that is impactful across many areas – a pattern that creates lasting change for the whole person. Azaria enjoys connecting to her clients and having fun. Coaching can be something we look forward to, a very rapportful experience.
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.
Belinda Fernandes
About Belinda
What Belinda really enjoys when coaching is supporting adults in the workplace to understand more about their Neurodivergent challenges and explore their strengths to develop strategies which help manage the impact that those challenges bring. Belinda has supported clients who work in banks, teaching, hospitals and other public services as well as clients who are aiming to re-establish themselves in a working role after taking some time out.
Belinda brings a flexible, person-centered approach to her coaching. She offers a safe space to allow clients to explore their situation, how they want things to be and discover how they can use their strengths to create solutions that allow them to work at their best.
When Belinda is coaching at her best, she is calm, curious and feels a warm glow to see clients have a “lightbulb moment”; this may be seeing a strength they already have but not noticed or why a certain challenge has felt too overwhelming or recognising a step they can take to move a step closer to achieving their potential.
Claudine Charles
MSc in Human Resources Development
About Claudine
Claudine is an accredited executive coach, who is passionate about supporting people to operate at their best, and enjoys partnering with her clients to stimulate those “eureka moments,” where they reflect, generate insight, and are mobilised into action with enthusiasm.
Claudine thrives on creating a safe space for clients to be comfortable and transparent, where they can work through any challenges, grasp their attention, 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, unraveling any limiting beliefs, 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 joined Genius Within in 2019 as a coach in our employability team. She has a Master’s in Clinical Psychology and is completing her ILM Level 7 in Professional Workplace Coaching, as well as training to be a Chartered Coaching Psychologist. Gizem has worked with a wide range of clients from those looking for work right up to senior Exec Directors and Clinical Leads. She has experience of various industries including healthcare, finance, sales, consulting, pharma, technology, manufacturing, academia, marketing and more.
As an ADHDer herself with a late diagnosis, Gizem has really found coaching beneficial personally for understanding herself, for learning about when she works at her best and understanding herself more.
When Gizem is coaching at her best she is an active listener, she loves thinking on the spot and responding to her clients in the moment. She really enjoys watching her clients thrive, progress and taking action on their goals.
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.
