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ADHD WISE COACHING is dedicated to

empowering individuals to find the clarity they need to achieve positive outcomes and change.

Is your ADHD holding you back?

Are you:

  • Frustrated you can't achieve the success you want at work or in life?

  • Unclear what your strengths are?

  • Not using your strengths in your current role?

  • Finding it difficult to motivate yourself?

  • Stuck in a rut, or frequently changing jobs?

  • Ready to progress, but scared to take the first step?

  • Experiencing low self-esteem or imposter syndrome?

  • Struggling with time blindness, task initiation or transition?

  • Wanting help to improve your executive function skills?

  • Regularly in a cycle of ADHD burnout?

  • Seeking clarity, and want a better understanding of how your ADHD brain works?

Do you:

  • Struggle to switch off from work?

  • Fear failure?

  • Worry what others think of you?

  • Lack confidence?

  • Feel embarrassed or self-aware (of your ADHD or differences)?

  • Mask or hide who you are to fit in?

  • Feel overwhelmed and not good enough:

    • in a new leadership or management role?

    • after a recent promotion?

    • working in a new organisation?

    • compared to others?

    • in relationships

    • due to perimenopause/menopause symptoms?

    • because your values don't align with your organisation's?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, firstly congratulate yourself. Secondly, keep reading!

Having the emotional intelligence to recognise these things early is a positive sign. By acting now to understand and manage your ADHD challenges, you can avoid the regular cycles of ADHD burnout and take back control of your life.

Your internal dialogue does not match what's seen on the outside. Fear of failure is human nature, that's why our autonomic nervous system has a fight or flight response, to protect us from perceived danger. However, fear that builds up and is reinforced over time, can cause a crippling freeze response, creating a barrier to action, change and ultimately transformation.

That is where ADHD WISE Coaching can help you. My coaching programme enables you to understand and take charge of your ADHD, rather than your ADHD controlling you. I will meet you where you are at, and help you to understand and celebrate your whole self, enabling you to shape your next chapter, and the brighter future you deserve.

Everyone deserves the opportunity to achieve their career aspirations and goals in life and be the best version of themselves. That is why I have developed my coaching programme to focus on three key areas.

ADHD Awareness and Education

Understanding how your ADHD brain works, and whether it is working with or against you is the first step in removing your workplace barriers, and managing your work pressures, self-limiting beliefs, and imposter syndrome. The clarity gained from this knowledge is powerful, and yours to have! It will enable you to:

  • identify and lean into your strengths to work in a way and an environment that supports you.

  • confidently articulate your preferred ways of working, workplace adjustments and management support needs to others.

  • set boundaries (that work for you) to manage your time, workload and resources.

  • agree realistic, achievable deadlines to achieve milestones or outcomes.

  • avoid cycles of ADHD burnout by learning to say no, rather than overcommitting. Especially if you procrastinate, regularly complete work at the last minute to achieve deadlines, and/or have perfectionist tendencies.

  • identify any triggers and use tools and techniques to manage stress and anxiety.

  • improve your overall health and wellbeing.

Unlocking Performance Potential in Leaders and Managers

Successful high performers have clarity about their role, responsibilities, accountabilities, and performance expectations. They know what is within theirs and others remit and are confident in their own skills and abilities. Whilst you might respect other's professionalism and success, comparing yourself to them can be counter-productive for ADHDers with low self-esteem, imposter syndrome, performance anxiety, Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD), and/or those experiencing perimenopause/menopause. So it's important to:

  • Be kind to yourself, what you are feeling is valid

  • Acknowledge that you are where you are at professionally on merit, and for the skills you bring.

  • Have appropriate workplace adjustments and line manager support in place to help you perform effectively in your role. Having a constructive conversation about your workplace adjustment needs will benefit you, your manager, and your organisation.

  • Use SMART objectives, have clearly set out performance expectations and participate in regular performance reviews.

  • Use performance feedback constructively, as part of your CPD.

  • Request more frequent performance reviews, and feedback in alternative formats if you need this (as a workplace adjustment)

  • Consider if having a workplace buddy, mentor, or sponsor could support your career performance and development.

  • Recognise that feelings of imposter syndrome mean that you have stepped outside of your comfort zone (temporarily). Challenging yourself can be difficult, but it is a good thing, and a sign of your growth.

Workplace Inclusion

Creating a truly inclusive workplace or environment means valuing equally, and respecting the diversity of thought, skills, experience, knowledge, processing, communication and learning styles everyone contributes. A supportive, psychologically safe culture can be the key to unlocking your performance potential and will enable you to thrive (in and out of work). You can contribute by:

  • Educating others about neurodiversity - arrange staff training webinars and team meetings.

  • Sharing your ADHD story, people really engage with lived experiences. So if you are a senior leader, you can help create a positive inclusive culture.

  • Helping to normalise conversations about workplace adjustments and the use of assistive technology.

  • Challenging non-inclusive practices constructively and suggesting improvements.

  • Embedding inclusive meeting practices and ways of working (these often benefit all staff).

  • Being a role model. Advocate for and lift others around you who may be on a similar journey.

  • Celebrate yours, and others successes publicly.

  • Be your authentic ADHD self, you ARE enough!

How I can HELP

Image is a photograph of Jo Oakley, ADHD Wise Coaching Founder.

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