Neurodiversity Coaching for Business Owners, Leaders and Professionals with divergent minds
Are you hungry for change and ready to put in the work?
Do you often feel like you can’t do what you know you need to do?
You’re not alone.
This is one of the most common concerns among those of us living, and working, with ADHD.
How do I know? Because I’m travelling a similar journey too.
At age 49 I received my ADHD diagnosis. And suddenly, many of my own challenges made sense.
I’ve been coaching ambitious business owners, leaders and professionals since 2015, but there was always a missing link for me in my own work.
I was underachieving. My high performing clients were surpassing me and I couldn't work out why. There was something amiss but nothing I could put my finger on. I was clearly limited. I felt a deep sense of shame.
Although I was brilliant at activating and motivating others, I felt a near paralysis when it came to doing what I needed to do for myself and my business unless it deeply interested me.
Even for the most smart, ingenious, trailblazing humans, ADHD can have us:
Hyperfocusing on certain activities, often hours at a time - at the expense of other important tasks, relationships and wellbeing
Lacking consistency and control in our day
Experiencing extreme swings in energy and emotion levels
Struggling to stay engaged in conversations or tasks of little interest
Facing chronic procrastination, often to the detriment of the project
Slow to act on things that require sustained mental effort
Struggling to sell and work on marketing for fear of rejection
Not being able to have difficult conversations due to emotional flooding
Overwhelmed by sensory stimuli like loud noises, music, or busy environments - to a point where you can’t seem to think
Impulsively acting on things that you often come to regret
Feeling like the real you is hiding
Feeling a deep sense of shame, when you’re not sure why.
Chances are, like me, you’ve just managed to get by.
You’ve done OK. But you’re feeling the weight of effort. The hunch there’s something not quite right. You’re not succeeding to the levels you expect.
For you, your business, your people to thrive - something needs to change.
My Coach Approach
Professional ADHD and neurodiversity coaching is a client-centred partnership that facilitates new thinking, draws on the neuroscience and the practice of actions, strategies and reflection, to bring about positive change and help the client maximise their potential and reach their goals.
The Process of Change
My role as an ADHD and neurodiversity coach is to:
Create a safe, non-judgmental environment
Listen with an understanding of the neuroscience as well as lived experience of neurodiversity
Help you identify goals and move toward them
Observe what may be preventing you from reaching specific goals
Explore ways with you in which you can apply your strengths, talents, and passion, and;
Support you to practice applying strategies and behaviours congruent with your learning, processing, and organisation styles.
ADHD and neurodiversity coaches regard their clients as naturally creative, resourceful, and incredible human beings.
Not everyone is ready for coaching
Sometimes therapeutic support is needed before coaching support. Especially if you are neurodivergent.
Here are some of the principal differences between coaching and therapy.
What's next?
Step 1
Book a discounted full 1 hour introductory coaching session where we'll meet, evaluate where you're at, what you're wanting to achieve, and how we can do that with coaching. My intention with these sessions is that they're of value whether we work together or not.
Step 2
You decide whether you'd like to progress working together. If not, I may be able to refer you to another professional.
Step 3
We decide what the best way forward is
(frequency, length, cost)
Step 4
We begin our coaching partnership, which includes accountability, support structures, and powerful actions for you to move the needle on your work, your business and your life.
Annie has a skill to help find innovative ways of uncovering the leader and empowering that leader to move into action. Most importantly, Annie makes it fun doing the deep dive into unknown territories and the steep learning curve feels like floating up because of her gentle and carrying way of holding space and holding on track.
- Dessie Hristova, LLB
Director, Assent Migration Lawyers
People with ADHD have a special 'feel' for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters. While others have to reason their way methodically.
Dr Ned Hallowell
Annie Romanos is an Executive ADHD & Neurodiversity coach based in Kāpiti, New Zealand, supporting neurodivergent bright sparks worldwide.
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