
A Genius Coach
About A Genius Coach
If you would like to book a coaching session, but would rather the Genius Within team select a qualified coach for you, just select this option and we will ensure that we provide the best matched coach to meet your needs.

Anna Whitehead
MA Honours in Psychology
About Anna
Anna is keen to use her coaching skills to improve people’s wellbeing at work and help create more inclusive communities for neurodiverse individuals.
Clients have described Anna’s coaching as non-judgemental, authentic and honest. Her warmth and empathy enable her to quickly build relationships of trust. Coaching approaches which resonate most for Anna are embedded in the whole person, mindfulness, reflection and being in the moment. She is guided by coaching principles, which enable her to respond with creativity and flexibility. She designs with clients how they will work together. Anna regularly reflects on her own practice and is committed to further developing her skills and expertise.

Benjamin Harvey
About Benjamin
Benjamin has over a decade of experience coaching adults and teams within a variety and range of sectors, occupations and experience levels.
He is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation and a Mental Health First Aider.
Prior to moving into full-time coaching Benjamin spent twenty years within various marketing communications roles in the UK and Australia.
As a coach his work involves everyday individuals, rising stars, senior managers and board-level directors across a range of commercial, government, not-for-profit, creative and technical sectors.
Client coaching objectives include: confidence, social and professional relationships; executive, leadership and strengths development; health and wellbeing, personal development; work life balance; neurodiversity, mental health and disability workplace strategies.
As part of his wider commitment as a champion of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and wider society, he is Co-Chair of The RSA fellows-led Workplace Inclusions Network which works in partnership with The RSA’s Future for Work Centre and institutions such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Brendan Dobrowolny
Associate Coach
About Brendan
Brendan is an experienced executive coach and has been a Genius Within associate since 2014. Brendan’s approach and style works well with individuals who appreciate a challenging yet genial approach in a coaching relationship and those who wish to understand and explore their neurodiverse/divergent traits in order to improve their work targeting and performances over the long term. Brendan works with individuals who want to develop or improve their communication with more authority and impact, as well as those who want to improve their own self awareness, emotional intelligence and personal confidence.

Christine Lennon
About Christine
Christine is passionate about people having confidence and a belief in themselves to live the life that they would like. She enjoys helping others to recognise their own strengths and abilities, to have a belief in themselves and to work towards their goals. Having spent so many years working in the voluntary sector she has a special interest in this area.

Clare McNamara
About Clare
Clare’s motivation to support neurominorities stems from personal and family experience of living with the challenges atypical brain wiring presents. Seeing first-hand how a late diagnosis of ADHD can, with encouragement, be reframed as a blessing, her focus is on co-creating environments that support individuals to work at their best, irrespective of their condition.

Elisabeth Goodman
About Elisabeth
Elisabeth works with managers and individual team members in Life Science and other companies, large and small, to help them exercise choice and realise their potential in the workplace.
She and her clients work across three levels of awareness: what’s important to them, how they interact with others, and how they go about their work.
Her advocacy for Neurodiversity comes from her personal and family experience of autism, and her insights gained from working with neurominorities.
Elisabeth’s flexes her calm and reflective approach and the coaching tools she uses to match her clients’ learning styles and the topics they want to explore.

Emma Wee
About Emma
Emma comes to us from the design world and has a creative approach to working with clients, tapping into new ways of working that are specific and flexible to the needs of the individual. She champions the resilience and self-reliance that understanding one’s own neurodiversity can bring an individual, and has seen many clients find a new sense of purpose by being able to embrace fully who they are, rather than being defined by a label.