Executive coaches for neurodivergent adults
Compare 33 executive coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are leadership development, burnout and resilience, transitions and new roles and women in leadership. They most often work with neurodivergent adults, professionals and executives. Most charge $125 to $275 per hour or session.
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Barbara Anne Gardenhire-Mills
Barbara Anne Gardenhire-Mills is a leadership coach who works with executives, leaders, business owners and people going through career transitions. Over half of Barbara's executive and leadership clients are ADHD or neurodiverse. Barbara has helped more than 2,125 companies, businesses and individuals since 2002. Barbara also works as a nonprofit compliance director in Camden, NJ, and hosts a weekly streaming talk show. Earlier Barbara worked for the SBA and for HUD.
Mira Brancu
Dr. Mira Brancu is an executive coach and licensed psychologist who works with leaders and their teams. She founded Towerscope, a leadership and organization consulting firm that has advised hundreds of leaders. She has 20+ years in academia and healthcare, and held award-winning leadership roles at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. She was an Associate Professor at Duke University's School of Medicine and writes for Psychology Today. She also coaches leaders with ADHD.
Smrati Mehta
Smrati Mehta is an executive and leadership coach who also coaches people with ADHD and dyslexia. Smrati works with C-suite and board leaders, neurodivergent professionals, students, and people going through career change. Smrati spent 20 years in corporate leadership, including NSE transformations and board governance. Smrati has also worked as a Licensed Davis Facilitator for 13 years. Smrati holds an MA in Clinical Psychology and an MBA, and Smrati coaches from India.
Jennifer Rickmers
Jennifer Rickmers is an executive, career and ADHD coach in Cibolo, Texas. Jennifer helps professionals who are changing careers, dealing with stress, or facing hard decisions. Jennifer also coaches people with ADHD and autism on focus, productivity and executive skills. Jennifer holds a PhD and is a Board Certified Coach. Jennifer is also a Key Performance Indicator Professional and a certified Neurolinguistic Programming practitioner. Jennifer writes articles on ADHD myths, setting boundaries and autistic strengths at work.
Lisa Lawrence
Lisa Lawrence is an executive and ADHD coach who works with high-capacity professionals facing growth, transition or burnout. Lisa's clients include lawyers, executives, founders, engineers and neurodivergent leaders. Lisa began their career as a lawyer, then moved into senior leadership and HR roles at Amazon. Lisa runs Reunion Wellness Studio. Lisa's coaching pairs clear thinking with attention to the nervous system, and Lisa takes on one issue at a time.
Charissa Howe
Charissa Howe is a leadership coach in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Charissa coaches clergy and nonprofit leaders, especially neurodivergent leaders facing burnout and leaders healing from trauma. Charissa spent over 20 years in nonprofit and church leadership before coaching. Charissa holds a Master of Divinity, a Master of Theology, and a Doctorate of Ministry in Missional Leadership.
Don Eash
Don Eash is an executive, team and career coach in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Don works with individuals and teams at key moments such as new roles, career transitions and team friction. Before coaching, Don spent more than 30 years leading teams at Disney, Universal and other organizations. Don holds the ICF Master Certified Coach credential and has logged more than 6,000 coaching hours. Don also coaches neurodiverse professionals, including people with ADHD or autism.
Jennifer Alumbaugh
Jennifer Alumbaugh is an executive coach and consultant for highly sensitive and neurodivergent women and gender expansive leaders, executives and professionals. Jennifer runs Expansive Expressions Executive Coaching. Jennifer is a licensed mental health professional with a master's degree in psychology and therapy. Jennifer also brings neuroinclusion into DEIB practices. Jennifer's coaching builds systems that fit how neurodivergent minds work, with plans made for each client.
Jill Johnson
Jill Johnson is a certified coach who works with executive leaders, women in the workplace, and adults with ADHD. Jill helps clients improve work performance, cut stress and overwhelm, and find balance between work and life. Jill is a certified ADHD coach and also runs an executive coaching offer for women called Lead Strong. Jill works with nonprofit leaders too. Clients include entrepreneurs, writers, and tech professionals.
Keshawn Hughes
Keshawn Hughes is a neurocoach and neuroleadership consultant who helps leaders who feel burned out or stuck. Keshawn founded NeuroSavvy and offers a 90 day program built on brain science. The work draws on psychology, communications, business and neuroscience. Keshawn holds a Master's degree in Strategic Communication and came to coaching after recovering from burnout. Clients include C-suite leaders, working parents and neurodivergent people.
Nicolette Nierras
Nicolette Nierras is a leadership, ADHD and spirituality coach in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Nicolette works with spiritually curious, neurodivergent leaders. Nicolette's focus is burnout, self-doubt and feeling out of alignment with who they are. Nicolette is a chartered accountant and a trained hypnosis practitioner. Nicolette also trained in Rapid Transformational Therapy, which is uncommon in leadership coaching. Nicolette writes about self-worth, salary negotiation and career strategy in the age of AI and layoffs.
Annie Archer-Byerley
Annie Archer-Byerley is a leadership and ADHD coach who works with first-time people managers, senior leaders, and people in career transition. Annie spent time in a corporate HR department and saw leadership development go mainly to executives and high potentials. Annie now offers that kind of learning to a wider group. Annie also supports disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent leaders. Annie holds Hogan assessment training and a Brown University leadership coaching credential.
Rachel Radway
Rachel Radway is a coach for high-achieving leaders who are highly perceptive or neurodivergent. Rachel helps them lead with clarity and confidence without burning out. Rachel spent 25+ years in corporate leadership roles before Rachel left to coach. Rachel works with business owners, new managers, nonprofit leaders, career changers and retirees. Rachel is also AuDHD themselves, so Rachel knows how it feels to mask at work.
Ash Cross
Ash Cross is a career coach and master's programs admissions consultant. Ash helps grad students, career changers, and senior professionals with resumes, mock interviews, and job searches. Ash spent time at Carnegie Mellon University, where they worked with the MSCF finance program and 16 Master's Engineering programs. There, Ash coached 300+ MSCF students, and all of them landed internships. Ash went full-time with their practice this year and booked 20 clients in the first month.
Josh Mandell
Josh Mandell is a career coach who helps people make big career moves, especially in big tech and corporate jobs. Josh spent seven years at Snap leading partnerships with Amazon and Apple. Josh now runs a Large Customer Sales team at Wondery, part of Amazon. Josh has also worked at EA. Josh has ADHD and also coaches others with ADHD on using it as a strength in their careers.
Benjamin Fitzgerald
Benjamin Fitzgerald is a career coach in New York who helps IT and tech professionals reinvent their careers. He also works as an AI transformation consultant and executive coach. He has 16+ years in senior IT-led business transformation. He moved from analyst to global director in under 10 years at a data science firm. He has supported 100+ IT professionals with promotions, industry moves, and ADHD-focused strategies.
Caitlin Bauer
Caitlin Bauer is an ADHD and AuDHD coach who helps neurodivergent adults with ADHD, autism, or both. She also offers business and executive coaching. She works with women in tech, entrepreneurs, new moms, and creatives. Before coaching, she ran a digital marketing and web design agency for over a decade. She has coached professionals at Disney, Google, Meta, Uber, and Salesforce. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and works with clients beyond it.
Caryl Frankenberger
Caryl Frankenberger is an independent educational consultant and the founder of Frankenberger Associates in Branford, Connecticut. Caryl helps students and parents with boarding and private school admissions. Caryl's learning center also offers executive function coaching, social learning programs, tutoring, brain training and assessments. The center has operated for over four decades and has helped thousands of students and families. Support is available in person or online for children, teens and adults.
Erika Gillette
Erika Gillette is an ADHD and burnout coach who works with adults and students going through big changes. Erika's practice focuses on high-performers, especially professional women in leadership roles. About half of Erika's clients are neurodivergent. Erika spent nearly a decade teaching and working in university administration before opening their own practice in 2016. Erika has logged more than 2,500 coaching hours and works from Nevada.
Lindsay Tauscher
Lindsay Tauscher is a personal development coach for queer, gender expansive and neurodivergent leaders. Lindsay also works as an ADHD and autism life coach in the District of Columbia. Lindsay's work centers on nervous system regulation, healthy boundaries, secure attachment and self-trust. Lindsay is a NARM-Informed Professional, so Lindsay supports clients with relational, developmental and attachment trauma. Lindsay holds a Body-Oriented Coach certification and is also a certified yoga teacher.
Michael Lechner
Michael Lechner is an ADHD and executive coach in Brookings, South Dakota. He helps adults with ADHD perform better at work and school, with a focus on managers and leaders. He is a retired clinical psychologist and has ADHD himself. He has studied and researched adult ADHD for years. His method centers on clear goals and effective action steps. He has also coached leaders through retirement and succession planning.
Ben Tobin
Ben Tobin is a career, ADHD and leadership coach in Portland, Oregon. He mainly coaches tech and software professionals, including developers, engineers, managers and leaders. He also works with adults who have ADHD and with entrepreneurs. Ben spent 20 years in the software industry as an engineer and as a manager of software teams. He builds an action plan with small steps and keeps clients accountable along the way.
James Freeman-Gray
James Freeman-Gray is an online coach for people who think and see the world differently. James works with adults who have ADHD, dyslexia or other neurodivergent traits, and with people who feel burnt out or lost in their lives. James is an ILM Level 7 certified executive coach. James has supported individuals for over 15 years, both inside organisations and one to one. James also coaches creative and multipassionate leaders and entrepreneurs.
Judy Bass
Judy Bass is an independent educational consultant in Olney, Maryland. She runs Bass Educational Services, which helps students who learn differently and their parents. The team offers college planning, essay coaching, ADHD and executive function coaching, test prep, and IEP and 504 support. The practice also offers a free Student Success Profile quiz for students in grades 8 to 12. It won Washington Parent Picks in 2021 and 2022.
Julia Rice
Julia Rice is an ADHD coach who helps adults, leaders and entrepreneurs with ADHD. Julia runs Julia Rice & Co, a coaching and consulting practice. Julia has ADHD themselves. Julia's work draws on design thinking, psychology, leadership education and neuroscience. Julia holds an ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation and is a Certified ADHD Coach Practitioner. Julia also works with people facing late diagnosis, career transitions and retirement.
Janet Smith-Harrison
Janet Smith-Harrison is a trauma-informed coach and trainer who helps people master their emotions. Janet works with neurodiverse people, business leaders, and people who feel invisible. Janet also coaches children and teens. Janet's training includes social psychology, learning and development, and project management. Janet is trained in the Trauma Sense Programme and in children's emotional coaching. Janet is also an Emotional Culture Deck practitioner and holds a mindfulness based stress reduction qualification.
Kristin Hendrix
Kristin Hendrix is a life coach who works with women balancing their roles at work and at home. Kristin's clients include professionals, executives, working caregivers, people in tech and neurodiverse clients. Sessions start with where the client is now, in work and in life. Kristin then looks at what is working and what is not. Kristin draws on both lived experience and coaching experience to help clients build a map of where they are, where they are going and their progress.
Victor Chambers
Victor Chambers is a life, career and leadership coach in Utica, New York. Victor helps thoughtful, capable people who are burned out from living inside systems that don't fit how their minds work. Many of Victor's clients are neurodivergent or work in helping professions. Before coaching, Victor worked in human services and behavioral health, moving from direct care into supervisory, program management and clinical roles. Victor holds a Master of Social Work degree.
Kadir Buvan
Kadir Buvan is a creativity and accountability coach who supports artists, writers and other creatives. Kadir started the practice, Kolam Creative Collective, in 2021. The first clients were tech workers who wanted leadership and career coaching. Over time the work moved toward politicized art, writing, facilitation and creative coaching. Kadir studied at the Academy of Creative Coaching and also studies the Liberatory Coaching approach. Kadir coaches in Tamil and English.
Krista Vaught
Krista Vaught is a career and life design coach based in Tennessee. Krista helps higher education professionals and executive assistants find their strengths and skills. Clients get clear on what work they would like to do, then build a plan to explore that direction. Krista also works with early career professionals, administrative professionals, highly sensitive people, and neurodivergent people. Krista holds Designing Your Life and Gallup Strengths certifications.
Else Kramert
Else Kramert coaches founders, executives and academics who are highly intelligent and feel stuck in high-stakes roles. The work centers on smart people who burn out or become the bottleneck in their own organization. Else is a philosopher, an entrepreneur and a certified master coach. Clients include people with ADHD, ADD or ASD. The coaching builds on how their minds already work instead of trying to fix them. It starts with a 20-minute discovery call.
Michaela
Michaela is a confidence and dating coach for introverts. Michaela runs Introvert Spring and wrote the book The Irresistible Introvert. Michaela offers one-on-one coaching, confidence coaching and dating coaching for introverted men. Michaela also coaches corporate teams and teaches social skills to autistic adults. Michaela's website has reached millions of readers. Media outlets including Forbes, Huffpost, CBC and Tamron Hall Talk Show have featured Michaela.
Chrissy Nichols
Chrissy Nichols is an executive function coach who works with teens and adults who have ADHD or think in non-neurotypical ways. She helps clients plan, organize, manage time, and start tasks they keep putting off. She blends thought work with practical systems for getting things done. She also runs a free course for parents called How to Talk to an ADHD Brain and a paid course on finishing what matters.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Barbara Anne Gardenhire-Mills | Leadership development and Transitions and new roles | $125 to $230 an hour |
| Mira Brancu | Leadership development and Women in leadership | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Smrati Mehta | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $130 to $225 an hour |
| Jennifer Rickmers | Transitions and new roles and Burnout and resilience | $105 to $150 per hour |
| Lisa Lawrence | Burnout and resilience and Transitions and new roles | $105 to $195 an hour |
| Charissa Howe | Burnout and resilience and Nonprofit leaders | $150 to $275 an hour |
| Don Eash | Leadership development and Team performance | $75 to $1,000 per hour |
| Jennifer Alumbaugh | Leadership development and Burnout and resilience | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Jill Johnson | Women in leadership and Leadership development | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Keshawn Hughes | Leadership development and Burnout and resilience | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Nicolette Nierras | Burnout and resilience | $80 to $180 per hour |
| Annie Archer-Byerley | New managers and Leadership development | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Rachel Radway | New managers and Women in leadership | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Ash Cross | Career coach and master's programs admissions consultant | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Josh Mandell | Career coach for big tech and corporate career moves | $90 to $175 an hour |
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Common focus areas include leadership development, burnout and resilience, transitions and new roles and women in leadership.
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Last updated September 2026.