Executive coaches for neurodivergent adults
Compare 38 executive coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are leadership development, burnout and resilience, emotional intelligence and transitions and new roles. 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 her executive and leadership clients are ADHD or neurodiverse. She has helped more than 2,125 companies, businesses and individuals since 2002. She also works as a nonprofit compliance director in Camden, NJ, and hosts a weekly streaming talk show. Earlier she worked for the SBA and for HUD.
Elizabeth Gentzkow
Elizabeth Gentzkow, who goes by Lizz, is an executive, leadership and career coach who also works with adults who have ADHD. She helps high-achieving professionals, executives and entrepreneurs. She is a Board Certified Coach and a Licensed Professional Counselor with a background in Organizational Behavior. She runs Thrive West in Oregon and has 15+ years of experience. Her work also covers teams and organizations, including an 8-week mindfulness program for leaders.
Maniesha Blakey
Maniesha Blakey is a founder burnout coach and performance capacity coach in London. She helps founders, entrepreneurs and senior leaders manage pressure, recover from burnout and make sharper decisions. She has logged 1000+ hours coaching, counselling and assessing clients. She also supported 100+ founders with ideas, co-founder matching and company creation at a startup generator/VC. Her clients range from solopreneurs to multinational organizations.
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.
Rachel Radway
Rachel Radway is a coach for executives, business owners, and emerging leaders who are highly perceptive and often neurodivergent. She helps them lead with clarity and confidence without burning out. Rachel spent 25+ years in corporate leadership roles before she began coaching. She has lived in 11 countries and wrote an award-winning book about a stint working in Switzerland. She was diagnosed with ADHD in 2023 and has autistic traits, which shapes how she coaches.
Smrati Mehta
Smrati Mehta is an executive and leadership coach who also coaches people with ADHD and dyslexia. She works with C-suite and board leaders, neurodivergent professionals, students, and people going through career change. She spent 20 years in corporate leadership, including NSE transformations and board governance. She has also worked as a Licensed Davis Facilitator for 13 years. She holds an MA in Clinical Psychology and an MBA, and she coaches from India.
Jennifer Alumbaugh
Jennifer Alumbaugh is an executive and business coach who works with late-identified Autistic and ADHD founders, executives and professionals. She founded Expansive Expressions in 2017. Her work covers systems, project and task management, delegation, boundary setting and leadership development. She also offers neuroinclusion consulting to companies and runs a start-up incubator for neurodivergent and disabled entrepreneurs. She is an AuDHD business owner herself, and she holds a master's degree in psychology and therapy.
Lisa Lawrence
Lisa Lawrence is an executive and ADHD coach who works with high-capacity professionals facing growth, transition or burnout. Her clients include lawyers, executives, founders, engineers and neurodivergent leaders. She began her career as a lawyer, then moved into senior leadership and HR roles at Amazon. She runs Reunion Wellness Studio. Her coaching pairs clear thinking with attention to the nervous system, and she takes on one issue at a time.
Charissa Howe
Charissa Howe is a leadership coach in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She coaches clergy and nonprofit leaders, especially neurodivergent leaders facing burnout and leaders healing from trauma. She spent over 20 years in nonprofit and church leadership before coaching. She 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. He works with individuals and teams at key moments such as new roles, career transitions and team friction. Before coaching, he spent more than 30 years leading teams at Disney, Universal and other organizations. He holds the ICF Master Certified Coach credential and has logged more than 6,000 coaching hours. He also coaches neurodiverse professionals, including people with ADHD or autism.
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. She spent time in a corporate HR department, where she saw leadership development offered only to executives and high potentials. She now brings that kind of development to more people. She also supports disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent leaders. She holds a Hogan assessment certification and a leadership coaching certificate from Brown University.
Else Kramert
Else Kramert is a certified master coach and philosopher who coaches gifted, fast-thinking people. Her clients include executives, founders, academics and business leaders, some with ADHD or ASD. She has 30 years of business experience and over 1,000 coaching hours. She works from Rotterdam and coaches clients around the world. Before coaching she worked in politics, international real estate, photography and art education. She also hosts the Managing the Smart Mind podcast.
Jill Johnson
Jill Johnson is an executive, ADHD and life coach who helps women, senior leaders and working adults with ADHD. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and also coaches clients online across the US. She has logged 1,000+ session hours with 100+ clients in tech, education and nonprofit work. Her clients include Stanford faculty and government executives. She earned her ADHD coaching certification in 2025 and holds ICF PCC and CTI credentials.
Jennifer Rickmers
Jennifer Rickmers is an executive, career and ADHD coach in Cibolo, Texas. She helps professionals who are changing careers, dealing with stress, or facing hard decisions. She also coaches people with ADHD and autism on focus, productivity and executive skills. She holds a PhD and is a Board Certified Coach. She is also a Key Performance Indicator Professional and a certified Neurolinguistic Programming practitioner. She writes articles on ADHD myths, setting boundaries and autistic strengths at work.
Nicolette Nierras
Nicolette Nierras is a leadership, ADHD and spirituality coach in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She works with spiritually curious, neurodivergent leaders. Her focus is burnout, self-doubt and feeling out of alignment with who they are. She is a chartered accountant and a trained hypnosis practitioner. She also trained in Rapid Transformational Therapy, which is uncommon in leadership coaching. She writes about self-worth, salary negotiation and career strategy in the age of AI and layoffs.
Alex Gilbert
Alex Gilbert is a coach and consultant who helps adults with ADHD, dyslexia and other learning differences do better at work. She also advises companies on neurodiversity. Alex spent her early career in corporate leadership and development before founding Cape-Able Consulting. She has ADHD and dyslexia herself. She works one on one with individuals and with teams inside organizations. She also gives keynotes and joins panels on neurodiversity in the workplace.
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.
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. She helps students and parents with boarding and private school admissions. Her 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. Her practice focuses on high-performers, especially professional women in leadership roles. About half of her clients are neurodivergent. She spent nearly a decade teaching and working in university administration before opening her own practice in 2016. She has logged more than 2,500 coaching hours and works from Nevada.
Josh Mandell
Josh Mandell is a career coach who helps people make big career moves, especially in big tech and corporate jobs. He spent seven years at Snap leading partnerships with Amazon and Apple. He now runs a Large Customer Sales team at Wondery, part of Amazon. He has also worked at EA. He has ADHD and also coaches others with ADHD on using it as a strength in their careers.
Kadir Buvan
Kadir Buvan is a coach for artists, writers and creatives, and for people managers. He started his practice, Kolam Creative Collective, in 2021. He first coached tech workers on leadership and career, then moved toward creative coaching, writing and facilitation. Before coaching, he worked as a software engineer and then an engineering manager. He also worked on teams at the Wikimedia Foundation. He trained at the Academy of Creative Coaching.
Kristin Hendrix
Kristin Hendrix is a career and leadership coach who helps professionals make intentional career moves and build leadership presence. She has a focus on women who balance work and home roles. She created the Energizers & Drainers Coaching Method over 20 years. She started leading at 21 with a group of Marines. She also works with executives, working caregivers, tech professionals and neurodiverse clients through her practice, Leadership VITAE.
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 who 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.
Mindful Career
Mindful Career is a psychologist-led career counselling and coaching practice in Canada. It helps people find the right career, land a new job, choose a study path, and move into leadership. The team includes psychologists, career counsellors, strategists and academic advisors. Clients are matched with the specialist who fits their goals and background. Work draws on psychometric assessments, values profiling and personality analysis. The practice offers four named programs, and its services are insurance reimbursable.
Sarah Blake
Sarah Blake is an ADHD and emotional intelligence coach who works with individuals and small teams. She holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and has an M.S. in Organizational Leadership. She has ADHD herself, and she builds her coaching on that experience. She blends emotional intelligence frameworks with practical ADHD tools. She also trains teams with DiSC and Five Behaviors, and she was named a Top Emotional Intelligence Coach by Coach Foundation for 2022.
Stacey Cunitz
Stacey Cunitz is a Certified Educational Planner who guides students and their families through college admissions. She founded Blue Moon Educational Consulting in 2017 and ran college counseling at The Crefeld School from 2005 to 2023. She also offers executive functioning coaching for school success. She has visited over 260 colleges and universities. She served as President of the Pennsylvania Association of College Admissions Counselors from 2022 to 2023. Meetings take place over Zoom.
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.
Chrissy Nichols
Chrissy Nichols is a certified executive function coach who works with teens and adults who have ADHD or think differently. She helps clients plan, manage time, and start tasks. She has ADHD herself. She is a dual American and French citizen who has lived and worked extensively in France, and she lives in Utah. Her sessions open with a routine called Pride Pong, where clients report five wins. She also offers courses and parent coaching.
James Freeman-Gray
James Freeman-Gray is an online coach for people who think and see the world differently. He works with adults who have ADHD, dyslexia or other neurodivergent traits, and with people who feel burnt out or lost in their lives. He is an ILM Level 7 certified executive coach. He has supported individuals for over 15 years, both inside organisations and one to one. He 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. She runs Julia Rice & Co, a coaching and consulting practice. She has ADHD herself. Her work draws on design thinking, psychology, leadership education and neuroscience. She holds an ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation and is a Certified ADHD Coach Practitioner. She also works with people facing late diagnosis, career transitions and retirement.
Lindsay Troxell
Lindsay Troxell coaches financial advisors, fintech entrepreneurs, life planners and community builders through Our Coaching Initiative. She spent over 20 years at firms including Northwestern Mutual, LPL, TD Ameritrade and Janus Henderson before launching her practice in 2023. She has coached more than 1,500 advisors. Her work starts with the nervous system, then moves to identity and business structure, using a framework she calls the Soul Operating System.
Janet Smith-Harrison
Janet Smith-Harrison is a trauma-informed coach and trainer who helps people master their emotions. She works with neurodiverse people, business leaders, and people who feel invisible. She also coaches children and teens. Her training includes social psychology, learning and development, and project management. She is trained in the Trauma Sense Programme and in children's emotional coaching. She is also an Emotional Culture Deck practitioner and holds a mindfulness based stress reduction qualification.
Elizabeth Stonick
Elizabeth Stonick is a life coach in New York City who works with autistic and ADHD clients, and with anyone seeking more independence. She founded 2 Empty Chairs during the pandemic. She brings 20 years in mental health, more than a decade in advocacy, and 10 years in the corporate sector. Her approach is trauma-informed. She coaches in person in New York City and online anywhere. She also offers advocacy to coaching clients and trains business teams on neurodiversity.
Victor Chambers
Victor Chambers is a life, career and leadership coach in Utica, New York. He helps thoughtful, capable people who are burned out from living inside systems that don't fit how their minds work. Many of his clients are neurodivergent or work in helping professions. Before coaching, he worked in human services and behavioral health, moving from direct care into supervisory, program management and clinical roles. He holds a Master of Social Work degree.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Barbara Anne Gardenhire-Mills | Leadership development and Transitions and new roles | $125 to $230 an hour |
| Elizabeth Gentzkow | Leadership development and Burnout and resilience | $225 to $300 an hour |
| Maniesha Blakey | CEO and founder coaching and Burnout and resilience | $150 to $265 an hour |
| Mira Brancu | Leadership development and Women in leadership | $145 to $275 an hour |
| Rachel Radway | Executive presence and communication and Burnout and resilience | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Smrati Mehta | CEO and founder coaching and Leadership development | $130 to $225 an hour |
| Jennifer Alumbaugh | Burnout and resilience and Leadership development | $100 to $175 an 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 |
| Annie Archer-Byerley | New managers and Leadership development | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Else Kramert | CEO and founder coaching and Burnout and resilience | $130 to $225 an hour |
| Jill Johnson | Women in leadership and Executive presence and communication | $160 to $225 an hour |
| Jennifer Rickmers | Transitions and new roles and Burnout and resilience | $105 to $150 per hour |
| Nicolette Nierras | Burnout and resilience | $80 to $180 per hour |
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Last updated September 2026.