MEET THE SPEAKERS
Allison Leigh Solomon
ADHD Parent Coach
When Time Feels Slippery: Understanding Time and Executive Function
Allison Solomon is an ADHD parent coach helping parents navigate the challenges of raising a child with ADHD. As a mother of three sons with ADHD and a spouse with ADHD, I provide strategies that work in the ADHD parenting trenches. What you get is someone living your life, understanding your challenges, and giving you strategies that will change the road ahead for you and your ADHD child.
Gift: Teach your ADHD child, tween, or teen to be a Time Wizard
Missing assignments piling up? You tell them we are leaving in 5 minutes, and 5 minutes later they are still putting on their sock? Is their favorite saying I will do it later? If this is what is going on in your home, this Time Management Toolkit is exactly what you need. Easy-to-use strategies to teach your adhd child to be a time wizard.
Audrey Butters
ADHD Coach for Parents, Teens & Young Adults
Scaffolding at Home: Why Executive Function Support Starts With Us
Audrey supports adults with ADHD, parents, and young adults with executive function, communication, and life skills—strengthening family connections and empowering every brain to thrive.
Gift: Starter Kit: Supporting ADHD at Home
Grab the free Supporting ADHD at Home Starter Kit — four brain-based supports you can set up in your house this week, no lecture required.
What's inside:
- Four scaffolds I use with my own family & clients (and the skill each one builds)
- From "lazy/defiant" to what's actually happening in the brain
- Reflections on what's tripping up your house
Carrie Bonnett
Executive Function coach
Get the Brain on Board: Understanding Executive Function and Why It Matters
Carrie Bonnett is a veteran teacher, lifelong list-maker, and Executive Function coach based in Bend, Oregon. She works with students and families around the country using a practical, no-shame, brain-first approach that empowers students to thrive, helps parents and teachers better support them, and gives adults tools to stay on top of all that life requires.
In addition to coaching, Carrie creates digital resources—including her signature course Get the Brain on Board and a series of No-Shame Guides for Parents—and provides brain-based workshops and trainings for parents, teachers, and other professionals. She is also an adjunct instructor at the University of Portland, where she supports early-career teachers.
Gift: Task Initiation Toolkit
The Task Initiation Toolkit is a free, one-page guide packed with simple, brain-friendly strategies to help students take the first step—especially when a task feels boring, overwhelming, or just too big.
Whether a child you support has a diagnosis or you're just curious about their challenges, this toolkit can help. (And if you’re an adult who struggles with procrastination or overwhelm, you’ll find it useful, too.)
Inside, you’ll get quick, practical tips that support Executive Function skills and reduce resistance—at school, at home, or anywhere things need to get done.
Print it out, Post it nearby & Start turning “I’m stuck” into real progress.
Dana Baker-Williams
ADHD and Anxiety Coach for Parents, Teens, and Young Adults
When Executive Function Becomes a Family Affair: The Impact on Parents, Siblings, and Family Life
Dana Baker-Williams is an ADHD and anxiety coach, writer, speaker, and founder of Parenting in Real Life. For more than a decade, she has coached parents, teens, and young adults, combining professional expertise with the lived experience of raising a daughter with ADHD and anxiety.
Dana started her business because she wanted to become the resource she had needed as a parent. She helps families decode what’s driving behavior, reduce conflict, and build confidence, executive functioning skills, and greater independence. Her work has been featured in ADDitude Magazine, HuffPost, Your Teen Magazine, and other national parenting publications.
Gift: Don’t Become Your Child’s Brain
How to support executive functioning without taking over—and help your child build the skills to manage more on their own.
If you feel like you are constantly remembering, reminding, planning, checking, and solving problems for your child, this guide will help you see what may be happening underneath that pattern.
Parents of kids with ADHD and executive functioning challenges often become their child’s memory, planner, timekeeper, motivator, and problem-solver without even realizing it. It comes from love, and often from necessity. But when a parent carries too much for too long, the child has fewer opportunities to practice those skills for themselves.
Diana Davidson
Parent Coach | Educator | Speaker
When Your Teen Needs You Differently: Navigating the Shift from Manager to Supporter
Diana Davidson is a certified parent coach, 2x girl mom (one in college and one in high school), and a lover of music and dance. She specializes in supporting parents through the emotional tsunami of sending kids to college and helping them go from tolerating the seismic shifts of this parenting phase to feeling grounded and connected to their kids while rediscovering what lights them up and who they are beyond just “mom” or “dad”.
Diana’s also an early childhood music specialist and owner of Songbirds Music in San Diego, CA. Diana loves traveling with her family, eating tacos, and dancing Flamenco.
Gift: Parent Care Package
9 ways to honor this season of transition without boxing up your emotions and trying to hold it all together.
Be calm, stay close and connected when your college kid leaves home.
Diane Dempster, CPC, PCC
Parent Coach & Co-Founder ImpactParents.com
Empowering vs. Enabling: How to Support Your Teen's Independence Without Doing Everything for Them
Diane Dempster, MHSA, CPC, PCC is a professional coach, speaker, author, educator, and recovering yelling mom. A 2025 CHADD Hall of Fame recipient and co-founder of ImpactParents.com and ImpactADHD®, she teaches a neuro-informed coach-approach to parenting, blending behavior management with change management so that parents and concerned adults can empower kids, teens & young adults to become independent and successful. Co-host of the Parenting with Impact podcast and co-author of Parenting ADHD Now!, Diane is an experienced leader, spiritual wanderer, change agent, and all-around life-guide dedicated to deep, inside-out, sustainable change.
Gift: 12 Fool-Proof Tips to Parent a Complex Teen
From the experts at ImpactParents (and the moms of six young adults!), we promise you this: it’s not too late.
In this FREE guide, you’ll learn 12 fool-proof tips to improve conversations and reconnect with your teens so you can guide them to become independent and successful.
DJ Nicholson
Founder, Inclusiveology
Remove the Barriers: Learning Solutions That Help Kids Become More Independent
DJ Nicholson, Founder of Inclusiveology, has spent over 31 years as a teacher, coach, and trainer championing inclusive practices for kids that think outside of the box. She provides engaging professional development and relationship-driven coaching, helping teachers to shift from lecturing to student-centered facilitation.
By partnering with schools, families, and organizations, DJ builds capacity for equitable, accessible learning environments where every student can be their best self. Her solutions, strategies, and instructional framework ensure that kids with unique needs have the tools to become confident, independent learners and an integral part of their school community.
Gift: This One Lesson Will Change How You Teach
This training module is part of the Gradual Release Model course and focuses on teacher/student collaboration and releasing learning to kids.
Elaine Taylor-Klaus, MCC, CPCC
CEO, ImpactParents.com
It’s Not About Trying Harder: Understanding Effort and Executive Function
Elaine Taylor-Klaus, MCC, is a globally recognized thought leader at the intersection of neurodiversity, coaching, and parenting. Co-founder of ImpactADHD® and ImpactParents.com, she is a 2025 CHADD Hall of Fame recipient and mother in an ADHD++ family of six.
Elaine's work builds on both lived experience and deep professional expertise as a Master Certified Coach. She hosts the Parenting with Impact podcast and is the author of award-winning books and programs, including Sanity School® for Parents, Parenting ADHD Now!, and The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and More. She is thrilled to be launching the Neuro-Informed Institute to train professionals in neuro-affirming practice and coaching.
Gift: How to Talk to Your Complex Kids [and Other Important Relationships]
Strained communication can create a hot mess of misunderstanding and conflict - whether it's with your kids or any significant relationship in your life. In this FREE guide, discover your role in communication dynamics and 10 simple and effective ways to help you build better relationships with your complex kids – or anyone.
Emily W. King, PhD
Licensed Psychologist
Surviving Homework with Your Neurodivergent Learner: Why Homework Feels So Hard & What Actually Helps
Dr. Emily King is a Child Psychologist who has worked with neurodivergent learners for over 20 years. She received a Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and began her career in Houston, Texas specializing in school-based mental health in K-12 public schools.
She has since worked in private practice in North Carolina supporting the mental health, executive functioning, and social needs of neurodivergent youth. Dr. Emily hosts the Learn with Dr. Emily Substack, where she provides parent workshops; she is the creator of The Neurodiverse Classroom®, a professional development curriculum for educators; and her first book, THE NEURODIVERGENT LEARNER, is available for pre-order and will be out on August 25th.
Gift: 30-days FREE of Parent Workshops
Upgrade for FREE to Dr. Emily's paid tier of Substack where you unlock 20+ parent workshops to learn about supporting your neurodivergent child at school and beyond.
Elizabeth Sautter M.A., CCC-SLP
Author, Presenter, Social Emotional Coach
When Your Child Isn’t Listening: Looking Beyond What You See
Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist, author, trainer, and social-emotional learning coach with 30 years of experience supporting neurodivergent individuals and their families.
She is the author of Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick, co-founder of The Connected Family Community, and a collaborator with The Zones of Regulation® and Everyday Regulation.
As a neurodivergent adult and parent of two neurodivergent boys, Elizabeth combines professional expertise with lived experience to offer practical, neurodiversity-affirming strategies that support emotional regulation, executive functioning, and communication through everyday routines.
Gift: Whole Body Listening Resources
FREE Whole Body Listening Poster Download
The updated Whole Body Listening Larry poster with new strategies for regulation, self-awareness, and advocacy. Download the updated poster for free!
Gabriele Nicolet, MA, CCC-SLP
Parent Coach
The Upside of Uncomfortable: Building Emotional Regulation and Resilience
Gabriele is a child development specialist, parent coach and host of the Complicated Kids Podcast.
Gabriele is passionate about showing families how to help their complicated kids thrive and not just survive. She works with parents and children 1:1 and in groups.
Gift: Tell the Story: Reduce Anxiety and Help Your Child Understand Their World
Want a simple, free way to help your child feel calmer and think more positively?
Tell the Story is here to help! Sign up to get easy tips on how to help your child make sense of their day, the good and the bad. Encourage them to think more kindly about themselves. Build their emotional resilience and their executive function through storytelling.
Julie Miller
Owner, Educator, Speaker
From Intention to Action: Building Executive Function Through Goal Setting
As a lifelong learner passionate about brain science and education, Julie has been educating families for over 25 years. Using a brain-based curriculum and customized time-management strategies, she aims to empower people of all ages to develop their executive functioning skills and achieve their goals.
Gift: 12 Tips to Support Your Brain for Good Time Management
12 Tips to Support Your Brain for Good Time Management is a practical and easy-to-read resource that aligns with our mission at Executive Functioning Success: to provide strategies designed to ease the pain and struggle caused by poor time management and to maximize individual productivity for a satisfying life.
Leslie Josel
Certified ADHD Parent & Student Coach, Principal, Order Out Of Chaos
Raising Problem Solvers vs Direction Followers: How to Step Back So Your Kid Can Step Up
Leslie Josel is an internationally recognized student and parenting coach, founder of Order Out of Chaos®, and a trusted voice on ADHD and executive functioning. For over 24 years, she's helped parents and students build the skills needed to thrive in school, work, and life.
She created the award-winning Academic Planner: A Tool for Time Management®, used by hundreds of thousands of students, and authored three books, including How to Do It Now Because It's Not Going Away.
Leslie penned ADDitude Magazine's "Dear ADHD Family Coach®" column and has been named one of Global Gurus' Top 20 Time Management Experts for eight consecutive years.
Gift: Raising Problem Solvers vs Direction Followers - How to Step Back So Your Kid Can Step Up
Parents want their kids to take ownership of their time, tasks, and decisions, yet most find themselves stuck in a cycle of reminding, rescuing, and micromanaging. In this ONLINE VIDEO, award-winning ADHD student & parenting coach, Leslie Josel, shares her signature coach-approach method to help parents shift from directing to developing their kid's independence. You’ll learn how to guide your child to create realistic plans and build the habits and routines that strengthen executive functioning skills.
Use code BRAIN at checkout (good through Dec. 31, 2026.)
Penny Williams
Neurodiversity & Parenting Coach
Unlocking Executive Function: Rethinking Emotional Regulation
Penny Williams helps parents of neurodivergent kids decode behavior and raise regulated, connected children through her SIGNAL Parenting™ framework — a science-informed, compassion-centered approach that replaces outdated discipline models with neuroscience-based strategies rooted in connection and regulation. She’s the award-winning author of Boy Without Instructions and host of the Beautifully Complex Podcast.
At the heart of Penny’s work is one powerful belief: Behavior isn’t the problem; it’s the signal.
Gift: Behavior Decoder Tool
Identify how your kid's nervous system responds to stress to understand their big emotions and big behaviors
Transform chaos into connection with personalized strategies that work with your child's natural instincts
Help your child learn how their body and emotions work together by speaking their emotional language
Sarah Kesty
Executive Function Coach and Author
Stuck, Not Lazy: Understanding and Outsmarting Procrastination
Sarah Kesty helps amazing neurodivergent people create strategies to thrive! She is an executive function, autism, and ADHD coach and host of the Executive Function Podcast. A 4-time teacher of the year, Sarah’s Brain Tools School coaching and learning programs support high schoolers, college students, adults, and coaches in developing executive function skills to smooth out life.
Sarah specializes in translating research into real-life, actionable strategies. She regularly writes and presents for international groups and publications, including The Humane Society, State Departments of Education, Psychology Today, and Edutopia. Her mission is to make the world brain-friendly, inclusive, and a little more fun. Her book for teachers, Growing Executive Function, was released in September 2025 (Solution Tree).
Gift: Growing Executive Function Companion Workbook
A workbook to guide you through the reflections and action steps from my book, Growing Executive Function.
Scotti Weintraub
Parent Coach & School Navigator
When School Is a Struggle: Talking to Teachers About Executive Function
Scotti Weintraub, MA, founder of Reframe Parenting, is a parent coach, school navigator, and podcast host. She knows exactly how hard it is to support a child who’s struggling at school.
Parenting her own 2 teens has taught her about unexpected things like anxiety, ADHD, learning disabilities, and the exhausting process of advocating with schools.
She helps other parents through the noise, understand what their child’s needs really are, and finally feel confident walking into school conversations that used to feel impossible.
Gift: Teacher Communication Cheat Sheet
Take the guesswork out of communicating with teachers. Get practical questions, conversation starters, and simple strategies to help you build a stronger school partnership.
Wendy Wray
Outreach & Partnerships Manager
From Intention to Action: Building Executive Function Through Goal Setting
An educator at heart, Wendy is dedicated to creating environments that celebrate each student’s unique strengths and learning styles. As a parent of neurodiverse children, she appreciates the journey of seeking creativity, perseverance, and compassion in every project.
Wendy is a passionate advocate for students and parents, committed to building confidence and fostering understanding in the classroom and at home.
When she’s not setting goals with her teens or lining up new partner educators for The Shadow Project, Wendy enjoys cooking, reading, playing games, and exploring Oregon’s rivers, mountains, and patches of wild berries.
Gift: Setting Goals with Your Child
Management and to maximize individual productivity for a satisfying life.
Yulia Rafailova
Founder, MindFull Education. Co-Founder of PAUSE People Coaching
The Power of the Pause: Using Metacognition to Break Out of Autopilot
Growing up with undiagnosed ADHD and anxiety sparked a lifelong curiosity about how I could better understand myself and create a life that worked for me. That curiosity led me to CHADD, where I've been a longtime volunteer, immersing myself in a community of peer support and lifelong learning alongside colleagues, friends, and leading experts in the field.
Today, I'm a Coach, speaker, founder of MindFull Education, and co-founder of PAUSE People Coaching. After beginning my career as an academic coach, I transitioned into executive function coaching, where I help adults, families, and educators strengthen self-regulation and executive function skills through coaching, workshops, and peer support.
Together with veteran educator and executive function specialist Dan Leibowitz, M.Ed., M.Sped., C.E.T., I co-founded PAUSE People Coaching because we believe the most powerful way to support a child's development is by helping parents create the conditions where self-regulation can grow.
Gift: PAUSE Poster, a free printable PDF
Bring more PAUSE into your day.
Small moments of awareness can change the course of a conversation, a transition, or even an entire day.
The PAUSE Visual Poster is a reminder to slow down and go inward so that you can respond to the outward situation from a more conscious and regulated place. Print and post it where life happens - on the fridge, desk, by the front door - anywhere your family could use a gentle reminder to slow down and reset.
