Meet The Team

Welcome to the Neurodiversity Specialists’ Team!

Get to know the talented individuals behind our mission to promote neurodiversity and inclusion. Each member of our team brings unique expertise and a shared passion for creating more equitable and neurodiverse workplaces. Learn more about the faces driving positive change in our organisation.

Daniel Brooke – Founder and Director

Daniel’s mission is clear: to bridge the gap and create a world where neurodiversity is celebrated and valued. His dedication to understanding the unique strengths and challenges of neurodivergent individuals has driven the success of Neurodiversity Specialists.

As a leader, Daniel paves the way for organisations to embrace neurodiversity and reap the benefits of a more inclusive and innovative workplace. His vision has inspired the foundation of Neurodiversity Specialists, and his commitment to empowerment continues to guide our mission every day.

You can find out more about Daniel on LinkedIn

Kathryn Martens – Associate

Kathryn’s extensive leadership background spans various industries, from successful start-ups to corporate executive roles and universities and not-for-profits in both Australia and the United States. With a Master’s in Adult Education and diplomas in Coaching and Management, she’s uniquely qualified for executive coaching, staying updated on the latest coaching and leadership research.

Kathryn also excels as a workshop and retreat facilitator, leaving a lasting impact on participants.

Whether you’re an emerging leader or a seasoned executive, Kathryn is dedicated to unlocking your leadership potential and guiding your team to success.

Anna Hall – Associate

As a dynamic advocate for neurodivergent individuals, Anna’s coaching approach illuminates strengths, clarifies how unique brains operate, and provides practical tools for authentic navigation through life.

Her commitment to ongoing professional growth, reflected in her membership with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), ensures that clients receive the highest standards of professionalism and insight.

Rest assured, Anna is fully insured and DBS checked, embodying the integrity necessary for effective coaching. Join Anna on a journey of empowerment, where compassion meets capability, and neurodivergence is not a limitation but a unique strength to be celebrated.

Suzy Jackson – Associate

It’s a journey to:

• Understand Your Brain: Decode the intricacies of your cognitive processes.
• Navigate Change: Identify what you can and can’t change, empowering informed decisions.
• Decision-Making Mastery: Develop strategies for better decisions aligned with your unique strengths.
• Pathfinding and Motivation: Find the right path, staying motivated on your neurodivergent journey.
• Adapt and Accommodate: Embrace adaptability, making accommodations in your life and business.

Join Suzy on a transformative journey, where neurodivergence is not a hurdle but a vibrant asset celebrated, unlocking the full spectrum of your potential.

Lucy Drury – Associate

With her warm and compassionate approach, Lucy specialises in helping individuals identify their strengths and navigate career transitions, emphasising the importance of aligning work with personal values.

As an active member of the EMCC, Lucy is dedicated to continuous growth and development. Join Lucy on a journey where neurodiversity is celebrated, and every individual’s potential is unlocked.

Chris Blake – Associate

As a collaborative team member, Chris contributes creativity to multimedia learning projects and excels in communication and interpersonal skills. Recently, Chris expanded into disability and neurodiversity awareness training, reflecting his commitment to fostering inclusion and understanding.

Chris’s dedication aligns seamlessly with our mission at Neurodiversity Specialists. He’s here to guide, educate, and support your journey toward a more inclusive and neurodiverse future.

Jane Livesey – Associate

• Delve into self-awareness and emotional and social intelligence to understand ADHD’s impact on your life.
• Uncover your unique strengths and hack your motivation system in order to lead with authenticity and develop motivation strategies that are unique to you.
• Face ADHD challenges head-on with practical strategies to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals.
• Get organised with systems to effectively record, process, and recall information.
• Develop coping strategies for emotional regulation, address limiting beliefs, and craft your narrative to confidently set boundaries and ask for what you need.
• Map out clear objectives and personalised action plans.
• Cultivate self-compassion, kindness and resilience because you are capable of incredible things.

Here’s what one of Jane’s previous clients said: “Jane really helped me work through the issues I am facing due to ADHD and helped me gain insights into my behaviours that I had previously not recognised”. Jane is committed to guide you through a transformative journey to unlock your full potential in a supportive, non-judgemental and creative environment.

Emma Koubayssi – Associate

With over 15 years of experience in the fast-paced world of global communications, Emma’s path eventually led her to retrain as a coach and yoga instructor. Now firmly rooted in Scotland, Emma believes that understanding yourself —your strengths and areas of need—can bring more calm, consistency, and joy into your life. 

Emma doesn’t view neurodiversity as a deficiency, nor does she subscribe to the “superpower” narrative. Instead, her approach is about embracing your unique self and empowering you to live authentically.

Her diverse life experiences and transition from high-pressured roles into a more balanced lifestyle focused on coaching and yoga have shaped Emma into the colourful, insightful coach she is today. Prepare to be inspired, challenged, and transformed through your work with Emma.

Allie Warren – Associate

Allie’s career began in hospitality, where she honed her people skills before transitioning into HR. Over two decades, she built expertise in recruitment, training, and development and is an Associate CIPD member. This foundation enables her to combine practical tools with a compassionate coaching style to help her clients achieve their goals.

Kindness is central to Allie’s approach. Her coaching is a collaborative process, meeting clients where they are and helping them build confidence, embrace their strengths, and find ease and authenticity in their work, and beyond. Having experienced her own transformations, Allie is dedicated to helping others find paths that feel manageable, meaningful, and uniquely their own.

Karen Panich – Associate

Today, Karen applies this wealth of experience in the workplace, offering strategy coaching and comprehensive workplace needs assessments that are deeply attuned to each individual’s circumstances. Renowned for her empathetic and empowering approach, Karen excels in crafting personalised strategies that celebrate individual strengths, helping clients overcome challenges, unlock their full potential, and achieve meaningful success.

Kirsty Hall – Associate

As a neurodiversity workplace needs assessor, Kirsty specialises in creating tailored strategies that foster inclusive and supportive workplaces for neurodiverse individuals. Her approach emphasises collaboration and empowerment, and she works closely with both employees and employers to identify unique challenges and implement effective solutions.

Over her career, Kirsty has been involved in various projects aimed at enhancing workplace accessibility and promoting understanding of neurodiversity. She is passionate about breaking down barriers and advocating for the rights and needs of those she serves, ensuring that their voices are heard and respected in the workplace.

Kirsty believes that every individual has unique strengths and perspectives to offer. Her holistic approach not only addresses the immediate needs of her clients but also fosters a culture of inclusiveness and understanding within organisations.

Michela Casaldi – Associate

Michela brings a blend of lived experience and professional insight to her work. She holds a Diploma in Health & Wellbeing Coaching and is a certified NLP Practitioner. Her practice is also informed by neurodiversity-specific training, including certification in Understanding Autism, and continues to evolve through advanced neurodiversity-affirming learning.

Her coaching meets each client where they are—adapting to their energy, sensory profile, and communication preferences. Through one-to-one sessions, she supports clients in tending to sensory and energy challenges, easing executive function demands, softening critical inner dialogue, and processing emotional states that quietly erode wellbeing and confidence. Her approach blends practical strategies with sustainable lifestyle adjustments, tailored to each client’s needs and preferences.

She understands that neurodivergent individuals often face layered challenges—where differences in task initiation, time management, or attention shifting are part of neurodivergent wiring, but their impact is often intensified by sensory sensitivity, emotional strain, and relational complexity across both personal and professional domains. Rather than focusing solely on coping strategies, her coaching addresses these deeper layers—reducing internal pressure and building sustainable ways of engaging with life and work.

This work fosters resilience, self-compassion, and a grounded sense of self—supporting authentic engagement, emotional steadiness, and meaningful contribution.

Roxy Partridge – Associate

Currently completing ADHD-specific neurodiversity coaching, Roxy continues to expand her expertise and bring the latest insights into her work. Her specialty areas include hormonal impacts such as PMDD, pregnancy, menopause and andropause, as well as insomnia and sleep challenges, Tourette’s Syndrome, and rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD). She is also educated on common co-occurrences, such as chronic pain, migraines, and mental health.

Roxy has a background in nursing and psychology, giving her a unique perspective on supporting neurodivergent individuals. In 2023, she delivered a training session on ADHD in women to healthcare professionals at a prominent conference, showcasing her ability to educate and inspire others on critical aspects of neurodivergence.

Roxy can also support and guide you in relation to late diagnosis, explaining how this can affect self-esteem, self-identity, and subsequent behaviours and experiences. She believes that a deep understanding of neurodivergent brain differences is key to gaining insight into behaviours, enabling the identification and implementation of the most effective strategies. Without self-awareness, it can be challenging to recognise and adopt strategies that truly meet an individual’s needs.

Roxy is passionate about helping others harness their strengths in the workplace without toxic positivity, recognising the natural fluctuations of neurodivergent impacts and offering practical, empathetic support tailored to each individual. Her approach is grounded in neuroscience, compassion, lived experience, and a commitment to creating truly inclusive workplaces.

Sue Pemberton – Associate

Sue takes a person centred approach to coaching. Because coaching is a one-to-one activity, it’s all about the client and is tailored to each individual. It’s absolutely not about changing who someone is but enabling them to gain self- knowledge, skills, strategies and a realisation of abilities that can allow them to gain greater fulfilment in the workplace.

Sue has directly experienced the difficulties faced in trying to operate in a working environment set up for neurotypical ways of working and the stress that can be associated with trying to navigate this environment.

Some of the coaching topics Sue specialises in include:

• building a strengths profile, identifying your core values and how you can use and align these in the workplace to enhance your performance and be working in line with what matters to you
  how to enable concentration and deal with/minimise distractions to enable you to work more efficiently
• develop strategies to help minimise working memory difficulties and make it easier to recall information
• organisation techniques to put systems in place for prioritising, recording information and being on top of your diary commitments
• self-care both within and beyond the workplace to give you the best chance of performing with energy and engagement at work
• developing healthy working relationships and techniques that allow you to appropriately get your point across and enjoy working effectively with colleagues
• building confidence through models and techniques that allow you to slowly and realistically gain belief in yourself at work
• considering issues around masking such as whether you want to mask less or whether you can use less energy masking in the workplace

Whatever you want to focus on, coaching with Sue can help you work out the right support to make working more manageable and potentially allow you to gain greater fulfilment.

Toni Horn – Associate

Diagnosed neurodivergent, Toni combines professional expertise with personal insight, delivering impactful training, coaching, and assessments that empower organisations to implement actionable strategies for inclusivity, well-being, and success. Her work spans leaders, HR professionals, and educators, ensuring a holistic approach to supporting diverse minds in the workplace.

Caroline Ross – Associate

Caroline discovered she had ADHD (and most likely autism) when she was researching neurodivergence for one of her daughters. Since her own late diagnosis, she’s been on a mission to educate her clients about the importance of understanding hormones, healthy eating, the right exercise, sleep, stress management and connection to others as well as executive functions in order to not only manage but thrive with their ADHD – at work and at home. She’s a big believer in using nature and movement to support our overall wellbeing and reach our life and career goals and to this end also runs an outdoor fitness & wellbeing company in her local London area. Furthermore, Caroline incorporates NLP which involves using mindset techniques and language to improve our emotional state and reduce rejection sensitivity (RSD). Caroline has a diverse background, having worked both in corporate and for charities so understands well the pressures that many people face at work.

As a parent to a neurodivergent daughter, she is passionate about advocating for acceptance, accommodation and celebration of all forms of neurodivergence. In her spare time, Caroline loves nothing better than natural dopamine hits so you’ll often find her horse riding, rollerblading, skiing or cold water swimming.

Charlotte Hack – Associate

• Personal Motivation: Her interest and passion in neurodiversity was sparked by her son’s ADHD diagnosis, leading her to educate herself to better support him. She also has a daughter awaiting an ADHD assessment.  She loves and values the unique traits that her children bring to their family. 
• Coaching and Qualifications: Charlotte is an accredited executive function coach with qualifications including Level 7 CIPD, a Neuro Linguistic Programming Diploma, and ADHD awareness. Her coaching focuses on helping neurodivergent individuals improve executive function skills through strategies,  better practices, and habits.  Her mission is to help individuals be the best version of themselves, to help people understand themselves and how their brain works so they can learn to thrive. 

Ruth Shattock – Associate

With over 14 years of experience of supporting adults with specific learning difficulties, Ruth is a dedicated and supportive diagnostic assessor. She holds a masters in Adult Dyslexia Diagnosis and Support, an Assessment Practising Certificate and is a full member of PATOSS, bringing expertise in dyslexia assessments across different education levels and work.

Ruth is passionate about helping individuals understand their strengths and identifying the support they need to thrive in their roles. Her friendly, professional approach helps people feel at ease during assessments, ensuring they receive clear, supportive advice to unlock their full potential.

When conducting diagnostic assessments and providing tailored support strategies, Ruth combines professionalism with a warm, supportive approach and is dedicated to promoting inclusivity and empowering individuals.

Samantha Cherrington – Associate

Samantha is a passionate Neurodiversity, Disability, and Executive Coach with a deep commitment to empowering individuals to navigate their unique challenges and unlock their full potential. With a rich understanding of the complexities of neurodiversity and disabilities, Samantha uses a personalised, strengths-based approach to coaching, helping clients build resilience, develop effective strategies,
and thrive in both their personal and professional lives.

With over twenty years’ experience as a professional in the fundraising and marketing sectors, managing teams in fast paced target driven environments, Samantha is no stranger to the challenges faced in the workplace. Being visually impaired and with ADHD, Samantha can also empathise on a personal level with the emotional and practical impacts of living day to day with a disability and
neurodivergence.

Experienced working alongside individuals with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other neurodivergent conditions and disabilities, Samantha specialises in creating tailored coaching plans that focus on self-advocacy, workplace dynamics, and emotional well-being. Samantha also supports executives and professionals in fostering inclusive, supportive environments where all employees, regardless of ability or neurotype, can excel.

Whether you’re looking to improve your leadership skills, embrace your neurodivergent traits, or optimise workplace performance, Samantha provides the guidance and support you need to thrive. Samantha offers one to one coaching, co-coaching with employees and their line managers and neurodiversity and disability awareness training.

Sonia Joseph – Associate

Sonia Joseph is passionate about supporting inclusion and diversity in both the workplace and education. She has worked as an assessor for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia for more than fifteen years. It has been humbling for her to see the change which is brought about when individuals receive a diagnosis and start to understand how they can build on their strengths to achieve their potential.

Sonia’s background began in education where she has worked as an assessor or supported those with specific learning difficulties in universities, colleges and schools. Over the years, she has become increasingly mindful of the barriers which can exist in the workplace and of how even modest accommodations can increase the performance level of those at work so that they become truly valued members of their team.

Nathan Thomas – Associate

Relevant Qualifications:

Social Work Qualification 2009
Social work Assessor qualification 2013
Master’s degree in Moving Arts 2021

Natalia Kalacova – Your Neurodiversity Specialists’ Navigator

Natalia’s commitment to our mission of promoting neurodiversity and inclusion is reflected in every task she performs. As our administrator and correspondence expert, she keeps us well-organized and ensures our clients receive prompt assistance.

If you need any help or have an questions get in touch today!