Coaching and Mentoring
If you are autistic, ADHD, AuDHD dyslexia, dyspraxia, or are multiply neurodivergent, you may find that generic advice simply does not work for you. It was not designed with your brain in mind.
Managing on the Spectrum offers specialist workplace coaching and mentoring for neurodivergent professionals rooted in evidence, shaped by lived experience, and built around you.
Listed on the National Autistic Society Autism Services Directory.
Coaching or mentoring- what's the difference?
You may have heard both terms and wondered which one you need. At Managing on the Spectrum, the answer is: both.
Coaching helps you find your own answers. Through structured conversation and evidence-based tools, coaching supports you to identify what is getting in the way at work and build strategies that genuinely work for you.
Mentoring goes a step further. As a late-diagnosed autistic professional who has navigated senior roles in the NHS and local government, I bring my own lived and professional experience into the room. That means you are not just working with someone who has read about neurodivergence,— you are working with someone who is living it. Together, this creates something more powerful than either approach alone: structured support grounded in real understanding.
Who is this for?
This coaching and mentoring is designed for neurodivergent professionals who are:
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Struggling to stay in a job they are capable of doing.
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Recently diagnosed (or self-identifying) and trying to make sense of what that means at work
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Experiencing burnout, overwhelm, or a feeling of constantly running to stand still.
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Preparing for a new role, promotion, or career change
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Simply wanting to understand themselves better and work in a way that feels more sustainableI
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Autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and those who are multiply neurodivergent. A formal diagnosis is not required.
The SURE Framework™
Most coaching tells you what to do differently. The SURE framework helps you understand who you are and builds from there. After working through SURE, clients tell me that they feel:
S - Sensory Awareness
In control of their environment rather than at the mercy of it. Less exhausted at the end of the working day. Knowing what they need and feeling confident asking for it.
U - Unmasking
Lighter. Like they can breathe at work for the first time. Less afraid of being found out and more able to show up as themselves.
R - Reframing
Free from the story that they're broken or not good enough. Able to see their neurodivergence as something that belongs to them, not something that defines their limits.
E - Executive Function
Actually on top of things. With strategies that fit their brain rather than fighting it. Less chaos, more clarity.
Watch the video below to hear me explain the SURE framework