ADHD Works training

Train with ADHD Works

Certifications in neuroaffirmative coaching and supervision, created by Leanne Maskell. We run them live, in cohorts, so you learn alongside other people doing the same work.

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Which course is right for you?

Tap the one that sounds most like you.

Start with coaching yourself

The best way to understand your own ADHD is to experience it. Every coach in our directory trained with us, and our free quiz matches you with someone who fits.

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The ADHD Coach course

Six weeks, taught live by Leanne. The next cohort starts on 4 November, and it's the only live cohort she's running for a while.

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Advanced AuDHD Coach

An advanced certification for practising coaches and therapists. Join the waitlist to hear about the next cohort first.

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Neuroaffirmative Supervisor

The world's first dedicated Neuroaffirmative Supervision certification. Join the waitlist to hear about the next cohort first.

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ADHD Champions

The programme Leanne created for Disney, training colleagues in practical ADHD coaching skills. There's also ADHD Manager Training for people who lead teams.

ADHD ChampionsManager Training
Leanne Maskell, founder of ADHD Works, smiling in a colourful knitted jumper
Executive Functioning Coaching Framework™

Become a Certified ADHD Coach

Live cohort · next one starts 4 November

Most ADHD coaching is regular coaching with ADHD facts added on top. Ours is built the other way round: the method itself is the ADHD part.

  • 6 weeks, taught live by Leanne in a cohort
  • Certified, plus a free listing in our directory
  • Built on executive functioning, the ability to do what we know
Who it's for
  • People who want to help others with ADHD professionally, in their own business or an existing job
  • Coaches, managers, HR, educators and clinicians who want an ADHD-specific method
  • Anyone who wants to try coaching properly without a huge commitment

You don't need a coaching qualification or an ADHD diagnosis to join.

What you'll learn
  • The approximate 30% difference in executive functioning: self-awareness, memory, emotional regulation, motivation and problem solving
  • How sleep, stress, hormones, menopause and illness change things, so there's no one-size-fits-all
  • A flexible session structure with exercises, tools and worksheets
  • Adapting it for autistic clients and for under-18s
  • Safeguarding, signposting and our Ethical Compliance Framework™
  • Funding routes such as Access to Work
How it runs and what you get
  • We run it live, in cohorts. Week 1 is self-paced, then live every Wednesday from 11 November to 16 December, 9–11am UK (8–10pm AEDT)
  • £3,450, with payment plans available. Many employers fund it as learning and development
  • Certification once you pass the assessment, a written coaching transcript reviewed with feedback
  • Your Graduate Pack, including the ADHD Works logo and a licence to use it
  • A free listing in the ADHD Works Matching Directory, with no commission
Leanne holding up her book AuDHD: Blooming Differently
AuDHD Paradox Coaching Framework™

Become an Advanced AuDHD Coach

Next cohort: join the waitlist

When you're ADHD and autistic, the strategy that helps one part of you can cost the other. This is a whole framework built around that tug-of-war.

  • The only AuDHD coaching certification
  • For practising coaches and therapists
  • Based on Leanne's book AuDHD: Blooming Differently
Who it's for
  • Practising coaches, therapists and practitioners who want to understand ADHD and autism together
  • ADHD Works ADHD Coaches who want to go further with AuDHD clients
  • People with lived experience of AuDHD who already work with people

If you're new to coaching, start with the ADHD Coach course.

What you'll learn
  • Why AuDHD is its own experience, not two conditions side by side
  • Relationships, energy, processing styles, executive functioning, emotional regulation and communication
  • Demand avoidance, alexithymia and monotropism
  • AuDHD burnout, and when someone needs more than coaching
  • Accessible coaching: camera off, writing, body doubling and AAC users
  • Working without a diagnosis, and adapting for children and teenagers
What you get
  • CPD-certified Advanced AuDHD Coach certification once you pass the assessment
  • Your Graduate Pack, including the ADHD Works logo and a licence to use it
  • A free listing in the AuDHD Coach Directory, where demand is ahead of supply
Leanne Maskell in a blue jumper that says Empathy
'Explain, Not Excuse' Framework™

Become a Neuroaffirmative Supervisor

Next cohort: join the waitlist

Most supervision wasn't designed with neurodivergence in mind. This gives you a way of seeing any situation, person or brain, without needing a diagnosis or disclosure.

  • The world's first Neuroaffirmative Supervision certification
  • For coaches, therapists, managers and HR
  • A free listing in our Supervisor Directory
Who it's for
  • Qualified coaches who want to supervise other practitioners
  • Therapists, psychologists and clinical supervisors
  • Managers, HR and educators building supervision inside an organisation
  • People in regulated professions such as law and healthcare
What you'll learn
  • Explain, Not Excuse: the difference between "that's just my ADHD" and "that's why this happened, and here's what I'm doing about it"
  • The 4 Neuroaffirmative Supervision Lenses™: the client, the practitioner, the relationship and the wider system
  • Running sessions that are collaborative, not evaluative
  • Ethics, safeguarding and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
  • Adapting it for group supervision
What you get
  • Neuroaffirmative Supervisor certification once you pass the assessment
  • Your Graduate Pack, including the ADHD Works logo and a licence to use it
  • A free listing in the Supervisor Directory
  • Often funded from a CPD budget, or a business expense if you're self-employed

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