Associate Coach

Associate Coach

Hello! I am excited to be an Associate coach for Kelly Baums ADHD Coaching.

I believe that coaching is such a powerful way to build momentum and take action in our lives! “Impossible change” is actually possible!

I started my coaching journey after years of being a working mom, tolerating 50 hour weeks at a ‘golden-handcuff’ job – one that had great parts but really frustrating parts – bureaucracy, lack of vision, solutions that didn’t serve everyone, and inflexibility. My soul was getting sucked dry and I had to make a change, but how!?! I had worked as a mental health counselor, academic advisor, mid-level leader, and career coach in a variety of settings and yet found myself really feeling trapped in my own mid-career options. Coaching became both the means for personal change and a way to use all of my past experience to help others in even more powerful ways than a single role could ever do.

I completed my coaching training at CoActive Training Institute and became a ICF certified coach. In addition, I have added additional coach training in areas like parenting, neurodiversity, trauma, leadership, employee wellbeing, and career strategy that I utilize throughout my coaching practice. Besides my work with Kelly Baums ADHD Coaching, I also support employers with workplace wellbeing and visioning as well as mid-career women who are wanting to find more peace, calm, and confidence despite the endless juggle of work, life, and parenting.

As for me personally, I am a person with ADHD, with the added mystery of being in the perimenopause season of life. I use she/her pronouns, am a parent of two daughters, Willa (15) and Sylvie (10) and have been married to my husband, Josh, for almost 25 years. I live in Michigan, wistfully waiting for the sunny months between March and November!

Hey there! I’m Liz, and I’m thrilled to be a part of your ADHD journey. As a certified Life and ADHD Coach, I love helping neurodiverse individuals discover the tools, mindset shifts, and confidence to make like feel more like a joyful adventure rather than an uphill battle.

It wasn’t always smooth sailing for me. From the outside, everything looked picture-perfect, I had collected multiple masters degrees and had a decade long career in cancer research. But behind the scenes? I was totally wrestling with the daily chaos of disorganization, overwhelming to-do lists, and that sneaky perfectionism that just wouldn’t quit.

Despite reading every book on productivity, trying every new system, and trying every productivity hack under the sun (not to mention becoming a life coach!), something just wasn’t clicking.

Then came my “aha!” moment – an unexpected ADHD diagnosis in March 2020. Finally, the puzzle pieces started falling into place! While the world was pressing pause, I dove headfirst into learning everything I could about ADHD and its impact on my daily life.

I learned to work with my brain to create sustainable strategies and systems that actually work. Now I’ve got systems that actually stick, more free time than ever, and a life that makes me smile every single day. That’s why I became an ADHD coach — to help you shed the shame that often comes with ADHD, and work with your unique brain rather than against it.

Outside of coaching, you’ll find me soaking up sunshine and salt water, geeking out over the latest ADHD research, flowing through yoga poses, exploring new places, playing with my Notion setup (because who doesn’t love a good system?), or adventuring with my energetic sidekick, Luna! 🐾

Associate Coach

Hi, I’m Saskia, joining the team from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I’m so grateful that -thanks to the wonders of the internet and remote working- I can work with people all over the planet!

Like many with ADHD I have a colourful work background. I have a background in Media Studies, Video Production, Learning Design, Change Management and last but not least: Strengths-Based Life Coaching. After getting my own diagnosis in my late thirties and benefitting SO much from Neurodiversity-informed coaching I decided to specialize in working with neurodivergent people, mostly ADHD & AuDHD. College age, mid career or elderly, I like working with all adults that feel they can benefit from coaching support and are willing to put in the work of self discovery and experimentation that coaching takes.

Outside of this I am also a mom (of a very Neurodiverse family), a wife, a lifelong learner, and a volunteer at the Neurodiversity Foundation, co-founding their educational arm: the Neurodiversity Education Academy.

I adore learning new things, interacting in communities of practice (like the ADHD coaches organization), and collaborating with people who have similar interests and values, especially when it comes to co-creating a more neurodiversity-friendly future that can lift up the next generations into solving the problems of the future together.

In coaching, I like to focus on client needs, strengths, values, and co-designing personal strategies with the client. I’m trained in several evidence-based coaching techniques as well some more creative, strengths-based ones. I’ve learned there are many common threads and potentially helpful strategies, but the best coaching is often tailor made for YOU. Which also keeps it so interesting for an ADHD brain to do!

Associate Coach

Hi lovely people, I’m Ying, a first-generation Asian Immigrant woman with a late ADHD diagnosis. I have worked with hundreds of clients, helping them achieve more by doing less, through helping them prioritize, make progress by taking good enough steps forward over and over again, run tiny experiments, and grow iteratively through those experiments.

I blend a strength-based approach with strategies backed by science and my own lived experience. While I will suggest tools and strategies, YOU are the one with autonomy, ultimately deciding what you want to try, test them out and ultimately figure out a life manual that uniquely works for you.

I advocate working with your natural energy patterns, helping you set realistic and achievable goals as well as envision different versions of success which leads to a greater sense of accomplishment and increased motivation. I can help you build a sense of positive progress and resiliency by reflecting on what went well and what needs adjustment.

I create a safe and judgment-free space by bringing a gentle curiosity drawn from mindfulness as well as my own lived ADHD experience. Some of the ways my past clients have described my coaching style: resourceful, empathetic, compassionate, and integrating knowledge & tools across domains.

I have been fascinated by the question of how people live a happy and meaning-driven life for as long as I can remember. That has led me to devour knowledge from the field of psychology, meditate for over 7 years, try countless evidence-based strategies, become a life coach, and eventually discover I too have ADHD at age 26. Now I am passionate about helping ADHD individuals like you live meaningful and fulfilling lives and cultivate what is best within themselves by working with their ADHD brains by offering coaching in English and Mandarin.

Prior to ADHD coaching, I worked in operations in a mindfulness startup cofounded by some of the most influential meditation teachers in the U.S. I also received a 5-course training in Positive Psychology through the University of Pennsylvania. Moreover, I am a certified meditation teacher, having completed a two-year training program led by renowned teachers Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.