ADHD Executive Coaching
for High-Performing Professionals
ADHD-informed leadership development for professionals carrying increasing complexity at work.
Lead with more clarity. Make harder decisions with less friction.
Build a way of working that holds up as responsibility scales — without relying on urgency, masking, or over-functioning to get there.
Most clients begin with the Coaching Fit Assessment — a short reflection that helps identify what kind of support fits your current professional context before booking a call.
This is how ADHD often shows up at work.
Many high-performing professionals with ADHD reach a point — usually after a promotion, a restructure, or a step into broader leadership — where the strategies that used to carry them stop scaling.
You may notice:
Persistent ADHD burnout sitting underneath performance that still looks solid from the outside
Slower or heavier decision-making under pressure, especially on calls that are ambiguous, high-stakes, or politically loaded (decision paralysis)
Task initiation challenges on work that actually matters, while less important tasks get done
Increasing workplace masking, especially as visibility and leadership responsibility grow
Executive functioning that gets shakier under stress, not steadier
A constant sense of holding it together — pressure sitting beneath strong external performance, the private cost of continuing to perform well
These are not skill gaps.
They are signs that the operating system you have been working from is being asked to carry more complexity than it was built for.
The question is not whether you can keep going. It is whether the way you are working is going to hold up as the stakes get higher.
Most professional development assumes one way of thinking, one way of planning, and one way of leading.
“For neurodivergent professionals, progress depends less on discipline and more on alignment:
How work is structured, how decisions are made, and how energy is managed.” - Coach Cathy Rashidian
That works—until it doesn’t.
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Ready Set Choose Coaching Inc. is a boutique leadership and professional development coaching firm founded by Cathy Rashidian, a PCC-credentialed executive and ADHD coach and faculty member/Lead Trainer with ADD Coach Academy.
The firm delivers coaching through a collective of trained, vetted ADHD coaches with different professional backgrounds, strengths, and areas of focus. Clients are matched to the coach whose expertise fits the work — not slotted into a single methodology.
We work with senior individual contributors, managers stepping into broader scope, directors, executives, and founders — virtually, across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Why Ready Set Choose Coaching Inc.
Most leadership development assumes one model of thinking, deciding, and operating scales for everyone. It does not account for cognitive diversity in any meaningful way.
Most ADHD coaching is built around symptoms, hacks, or external accountability. Useful for some — rarely built for the actual complexity of senior professional work.
Ready Set Choose was built for professional development that takes ADHD seriously, and ADHD-informed coaching that understands professional complexity.
Our work draws on the Ready Set Choose™ model and practical workplace frameworks refined over years with high-performing professionals. Clients are supported by trained, vetted ADHD coaches matched to the work they are actually doing. Professionals come to us when:
A senior IC expected to influence across teams without formal authority.
A new manager still carrying too much execution work.
A director or executive navigating more visibility and decision pressure.
A founder whose creativity is outpacing operational structure.
A professional still performing well while the cost of performance keeps rising.
The talent is still present. The way of operating needs to be refined to fit how the person actually thinks and works.
How our coaching program works
Ready Set Choose Coaching Inc. is an ADHD-informed leadership development firm. Our clients often arrive looking for ADHD career coaching — but the work typically goes deeper, into leadership, communication, decision-making, and energy management at every career level: senior individual contributors, managers, directors, executives, and founders.
Our approach is:
Matched, not formulaic — coaches are matched to the work you are actually doing, not slotted into a single methodology
Leadership-development depth — the work goes past naming patterns into decision-making, communication, delegation, and self-leadership
ADHD-informed at every layer — grounded in how ADHD shows up in real workplace conditions, not in generic neurodiversity framing
Delivered by a coach collective — extensively trained, vetted ADHD coaches with different backgrounds, strengths, and areas of focus
We don’t assume what kind of support you need.
We identify it—then build from there.
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Most coaching models start with a predefined method and try to fit the person into it.
That’s where ADHD professionals tend to struggle.
Here’s what we see instead:
ADHD doesn’t show up the same way across roles, seniority levels, or environments
What helps one professional focus can increase strain for another
Generic productivity or mindset coaching often adds effort without reducing friction
When support isn’t matched to how someone actually thinks and works, even high-quality coaching can miss the mark.
Here is what you can do next:
Step 1:Take the Coaching Fit Scorecard
Step 2: See what’s driving strain + what support fits
Step 3: Choose your next step (coaching match, pathway, or clarity plan) -
We start by identifying fit before we introduce tools, strategies, or coaching pathways.
Some of the areas we look at:
how decision-making happens under pressure
where executive functioning breaks down in real work situations
how energy is being managed (or depleted)
what kind of structure supports clarity rather than overwhelm
This allows coaching to be targeted, relevant, and sustainable — especially for professionals carrying high responsibility.
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When support doesn’t match how someone actually thinks and works, the result is predictable.
It often looks like:
wasted effort and stalled progress
rising burnout, even when performance looks “fine”
difficulty sustaining focus as demands increase
overthinking decisions to compensate
feeling capable, but constantly stretched
These patterns don’t resolve on their own.
They tend to intensify as work becomes more complex.Fit-based coaching reduces strain by focusing on the conditions that allow ADHD professionals to do their best work — regardless of role or seniority.
What the Research Says on the Benefits of Coaching
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A 2026 peer-reviewed study of a 12-session individual ADHD coaching engagement for adults found that participants showed statistically significant improvements, with medium-to-large effect sizes, on validated measures of ADHD symptoms, executive functioning, and day-to-day functional impairment. The engagement followed a manualized coaching approach delivered by screened, qualified ADHD coaches.
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The International Coaching Federation's Global Coaching Client Study, conducted with PWC and the Association Resource Centre, found that organizations using executive coaching reported typical returns of three to seven times the original investment, and that 86% of organizations that tracked ROI recovered or exceeded their initial investment.
Source: International Coaching Federation, "Coaching Statistics: The ROI of Coaching," 2024.
Start with Clarity
Start with the Coaching Fit Assessment
A practical snapshot of your work life right now.
This assessment helps you see where work may be feeling harder than it needs to — whether that's in follow-through, career direction, leadership, communication, emotional load, or sustainability. Your results will point you toward the kind of support that may fit your current season of work.
→Take the Coaching Fit Assessment
What clients build over time:
Clearer decision-making under pressure
Sustainable performance without the same level of friction
Stronger boundaries and energy management
Leadership approaches that hold up as seniority and scope shift
Our clients include senior individual contributors, managers, directors, executives, and founders navigating ADHD in complex work environments.
