Wired to Coach: Understanding and Working with Neurodivergent Clients

Join us for “Wired to Coach: Understanding and Working With Neurodivergent Clients,” where you’ll explore practical strategies for recognizing and supporting neurodivergent clients in coaching relationships and gain insights into creating more inclusive, strengths-based coaching experiences that foster meaningful client growth.

Who is This For?

• ICF-credentialed coaches, who want to build confidence and competence in working with neurodivergent clients.  
• Leadership, career, life, and health and wellness coaches, who are looking to create more inclusive and effective coaching experiences for diverse clients.  
• Coaching practitioners at any level, who want to expand their coaching toolkit with practical strategies that support neurodivergent individuals.  
• Coaches who suspect they may already be serving neurodivergent clients, who are looking to better recognize neurodivergent traits and adapt their coaching approach accordingly.  
• Curious coaching professionals, who want to deepen their understanding of neurodiversity while maintaining ethical, strengths-based coaching practices. 

What You Will Learn:

• Identify how neurodivergent conditions, including ADHD, autism, and dyslexia, may present within coaching conversations and client behaviors.  
• Apply a strengths-based, identity-affirming approach to help clients reframe limiting narratives and leverage their unique strengths.  
• Adapt contracting, listening, and questioning techniques to better support the needs and preferences of neurodivergent clients.  
• Differentiate between coaching and therapy to maintain ethical boundaries and make appropriate referrals when needed. 

Course Details

Join us for “Wired to Coach: Understanding and Working With Neurodivergent Clients,” a practical and thought-provoking 60-minute workshop designed to help coaches create more inclusive, effective, and impactful coaching experiences. 

This session on Wednesday, June 17, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (New York), explores how neurodivergent individuals — including people with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other cognitive differences — represent an estimated 15–20% of the global population. Many are already engaging with coaches across leadership, career, life, and health and wellness settings. Yet most coach education programs provide little preparation for effectively supporting this community.

In this engaging session, led by Elyse Robbins, you’ll gain a foundational understanding of neurodivergence and explore how common neurodivergent traits may show up in coaching conversations. Through a strengths-based, identity-affirming approach, you’ll learn practical strategies for adapting your coaching presence, contracting, listening, and questioning techniques to better support neurodivergent clients while maintaining ethical coaching boundaries. You’ll leave with actionable insights and tools to create more inclusive, effective coaching experiences that help clients thrive.

Whether you are new to the topic or looking to expand your coaching toolkit, this workshop will help you build confidence, deepen your awareness, and enhance your ability to create psychologically safe and empowering coaching environments. 

This session is designed for ICF-credentialed coaches and coach practitioners at any level who work with clients in leadership, career, life, or health and wellness contexts. No prior knowledge of neurodivergence is required — only a willingness to learn and a commitment to inclusive, ethical coaching practice. 

When coaches expand their understanding of neurodiversity, they create more accessible and meaningful experiences for their clients. More importantly, they develop skills that strengthen their coaching effectiveness for everyone. Join us to discover how small shifts in your approach can create lasting impact and help you better support the diverse ways people think, learn, and grow.