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.
Adrian Camden
PhD in Business Psychology and MS in Industrial and Organisational Psychology
About Adrian
Adrian is a skilled psychology instructor and systemic thinker with progressive psychology work experience in the areas of coaching, organizational development, data analysis, job analysis, succession planning, competency modelling, training and development, and DEI. He is a dependable and organised team player with the ability to communicate effectively and efficiently. Adrian is passionate about educating organisations about neurodiversity by engaging management, empowering, and enabling workers to learn and succeed.
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.
Angie Alderman
MSc in Coaching Counselling. MBACP Integrative Coach Counsellor
About Angie
Angie has been working within organisations and in private practice since 2011. She has a client base that includes a broad spectrum of roles from interns to CEOs, young adults and primary caregivers.
Angie felt early on in her life that neurodivergence prevented her from career success through traditional roles. She found her own path through being self-employed and contracting role. She has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Paris and London. With a high travel burden, she learned the importance of vocalising sensory sensitivities, literally marking her own spatial boundaries. Her experience has taught her how to be her own best advocate, to be practical about what she needs and this is a skill she can share with her clients. Angie believes her experiences have taught her the power of setting goals and overcoming barriers.
When Angie is coaching at her best, she is doing less, and creating space for her clients to think things through from multiple perspectives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Griffiths
About Caroline
Caroline supports a diverse range of clients from all professional backgrounds to focus on what truly matters to them and achieve practical alignment with their working environment.
She focuses on empowering her clients and working with them as unique individuals to unlock their full potential and make changes that mean something to them. She provides them with a safe and non-judgmental space to explore what might be holding them back and move towards their goals.
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 lectures on the Industrial and Work Psychology MSc programme at the University of Hertfordshire.
Caroline is passionate about supporting neurodifferences in the workplace and the higher education sector. She uses a strengths-based approach in all her coaching to help clients identify their 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.
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.
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.
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.