Zoe Farmer
Social Justice Team Leader
Zoe is a proud Neurodivergent (ADHD, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia) with lived experience of unemployment, masking, and living with a chronic illness. She understands at a personal level the experience of marginalisation and exclusion. In her own journey, as a single mother in a mixed-race neurodivergent family, she has learned the value of advocacy and approaching life with curiosity rather than judgment.
Zoe joined Genius Within as a career coach and case manager in our employability team in 2018 after working in administration since leaving school. Since then, she has moved into occupational coaching, specialising in ADHD and workplace strategy, and has recently started exploring coaching to support Menopause. She is currently studying for her ILM Level 5 professional coaching and mentoring.
When Zoe is coaching at her best, she is like a scaffold, creating structure for her clients to learn to stand up for themselves and believe in themselves. Zoe loves it when her clients have light-bulb moments about their own abilities and talent, and the joy of gaining confidence and faith in themselves. Zoe’s clients learn to take that self-empowerment into the workplace.
What 3 words would Zoe use to describe Genius Within?
Empowering, community and understanding.
What is Zoe’s favourite way to relax and unwind after a day’s work?
Zoe loves walking in the local nature reserve with her daughter and going to the cinema together. She also enjoys watching her local football team when she can and going to the theatre.
What is Zoe’s Inner Genius?
Building a rapport with people.