Rachael Wallace-Lane
About Rachel
Rachael is passionate about helping others create the life they want.
Coming from a neurodivergent family, Rachael has personal experience and understanding of navigating society and the workplace.
Partnering with individuals, teams and businesses to maximise their personal and professional potential for over 20 years Rachael is an Accredited Coach Rachael using a strengths based, coach approach to uncover what’s most important to her clients, exploring the significance of their values and discovering how these can help support and drive ambition.
Rachel Westerbeek
About Rachel
Rachel is an AuDHD, ADHD, and Autism specialist coach, helping you discover ways to navigate neurodivergent life.
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.
Sabrina Ellis
Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring
Sean Manning
About Sean
Sean’s career previous to coaching was in finance and accountancy, where he gained a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s in Accounting. However, in 2016 Sean experienced a hemorrhagic stroke which paralysed his left side. He realised he would need to work differently and, following his own recovery, became a mentor to fellow traumatic brain injury patients. This ignited a love for coaching, which he has followed by building on his lived experience and by obtaining professional training.
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.
Theresa Quinn
Coaching Psychologist
About Theresa
Theresa is a qualified coaching psychologist with a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology. Theresa has been coaching for many years, nearly 8 of those with Genius Within. She specifically coaches in neurodiversity and the crossover with stress & anxiety, overwhelm, wellbeing (including hormonal), PTSD and flourishing at work.
Vic Brookes
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.