NEURODIVERSITY-AFFIRMING EXECUTIVE COACHING AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Power Your Potential.
Your brain is unique. Your work-life design should be too.
If you're a neurodivergent leader, you know that your edge and exhaustion come from the same wiring. This is coaching that understands both, grounded in clinical science and lived experience, so your performance and your health hold up when the pressure hits.
Coaching places are limited each year.
Enquire about coaching"Mariane has a depth of understanding and elegance in simplifying the complex. Her use of the rich evidence base brings further support to her work. She is curious and courageous and asks all the right questions to extend my thinking."
Karen Stein, Executive Coach (PCC) and author
MPsych.Clin | Former Clinical Psychologist, 17 years in practice | Creator of Master Your Magic®
Deloitte Global WorldClass Education Top Innovator
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Executive coaching for neurodivergent leaders
Most executive coaching assumes every client runs on the same baseline: steady energy, even attention and one kind of stress or opportunity response. If you're a neurodivergent leader, you already know your days don't work that way. You plan, process and communicate differently, and generic leadership advice rarely sticks, or doesn't make sense, however hard you work at understanding and applying it.
Neurodiversity-affirming coaching starts with the brain and nervous system you actually have. For many of us, attention runs on interest, energy is a real budget, and masking is the quiet default mode that drains it. None of that is a problem we need to fix. It's the design brief our coaching journey starts with, and it's one that takes a systems-wide approach to considering the whole of your world, and your role within it.
Three beliefs sit under this work:
- Leadership performance is a system: you, and the environment you lead in. Coaching here works on both.
- Different minds are core capability. The environment shapes how much of it anyone sees. And environments can be redesigned.
- Coaching works when it changes the everyday: how your week runs, how your meetings land, how decisions get made. Insight only counts once it changes your Tuesday.
Camouflaging is consistently associated with higher anxiety, depression and stress (Hull et al., 2021; Cage & Troxell-Whitman, 2019), and chronic exhaustion is central to how autistic adults describe burnout (Raymaker et al., 2020).
How an engagement works
Discover. Design. Sustain.
Coaching usually asks you to do all of the changing as an individual.
Ours doesn't.
Research consistently shows that for neurodivergent professionals in particular, the environment you lead in shapes your performance as much as you do, so our work together takes on both: you, and the system around you.
The approach behind these phases draws on ecological systems theory, person-environment fit research and sustainable work systems, set out in Mariane's Neuroaffirming Systems Coaching framework.
The coach behind the work
Mariane Power is a behavioural scientist and neuroinclusive leadership strategist trusted by organisations globally. A former clinical psychologist, she spent seventeen years in practice learning to tell the difference between a trait and a state, to see burnout forming long before it lands, and to know exactly where coaching helps and where something else is needed.
Mariane's coaching practice is informed by both her clinical expertise and her lived experience as a late-diagnosed neurodivergent leader, and as a mother, sister and daughter within a mixed-neurotype family. She has navigated boardrooms, funding conversations and competing stakeholder demands with her own wiring, and coaches other senior leaders working with theirs. You won't spend your sessions translating yourself to someone who has only read about your experience.
The work keeps moving between sessions. Every conversation is followed by an in-depth personal summary, so the thinking is captured before the week swallows it. Alongside the summaries sit custom-built assistive technology tools, designed for your profile, that carry the load on working memory, planning and communication. Insight becomes action because the scaffolding for action is built with you, then handed to you.
What you leave with is designed, documented and yours. It works on your hard weeks because it never depended on a good one.
Who this is for
You might be leading a company, a division or a team. You might have a diagnosis of ADHD or autism, be self-identified, or simply know your mind runs on its own logic. What matters is that you're performing at a high level, carrying the cost privately, and ready for that to change.
Clients are most often founders and leaders working in innovation, the creative arts and purpose-driven organisations, and many are women stepping into senior roles or already carrying them.
Coaching isn't therapy or diagnosis. If what you're carrying is clinical, we'll say so plainly and help you find the right pathway. Everything we discuss stays between us.
Common questions
How is this different from the coaching our organisation already uses?
Is it confidential?
What is the investment?
Do I have to commit to the full engagement?
Can my organisation fund it?
Looking for coaching at a different investment level?
A small number of places, held on purpose
Each year, a small number of founder and community-priced coaching places are held on purpose. These are for early-stage founders before the funding arrives, and for neurodivergent professionals accessing coaching through the Employment Assistance Fund (EAF) or self-funding their own development.
The work is the same. The door is just built differently.
Places are limited and expressions of interest are reviewed as they arrive. When the year's places are filled, you're welcome to join the waitlist.
Group coaching: Master Your Magic®
The nine-week leadership immersive for neurodivergent professionals and creatives, delivered in a small cohort alongside your neurokin. The same neurodiversity-affirming, systems-led approach as one-to-one coaching, at a group investment level.
The next cohort begins October 2026. Expressions of interest are now open.
"Knowing that I am enough, and in fact I have an edge, because I understand not only my own neurodivergence, I can see it, understand it and support it in the people who report to me. This is a skill traditional courses won't give you."
Master Your Magic® participant, 2026
Enquire about coaching
Two doors into the same work. Choose the one that matches who's funding the coaching, and the reply you receive will already answer the questions that matter for your situation. For most engagements, the next step is a free 15-minute fit and focus call.
Funding your own coaching
Investing personally, or exploring EAF or NDIS funding.
Your enquiry is confidential. By submitting, you'll also join the mailing list, and you can unsubscribe any time.
Funding coaching for a leader
For HR, People and Culture, and sponsoring executives.
Confidential. You'll receive engagement, confidentiality and investment details by email.
Not ready for a conversation?
Start where the thinking is free.
Jagged Brilliance: the series on neurodiversity and leadership. · Signal & Spark: a fortnightly note for outliers.
Disclaimer: Coaching is not suitable for addressing critical mental health needs or for accessing a diagnosis of any kind. If your needs are clinical in nature, please consult your GP or health professional for suitable referral pathways.
References: Hull et al. (2021), Molecular Autism · Cage & Troxell-Whitman (2019), Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · Raymaker et al. (2020), Autism in Adulthood.
