A rigorous 8-module CPD programme on the neuroscience and practice of executive function coaching. Grounded in Barkley's and Dawson & Guare's models, immediately applicable to your caseload — whether you work with adults, adolescents or neurodivergent clients across the spectrum.
Access all 8 modules immediately inside the learner portal. Each module unlocks rich teaching content, neuroscience explainers, coaching tools, worked scenarios with teaching points, and a final 15-question knowledge check that issues your CPD certificate.
Each module combines neuroscience grounding, practical coaching tools, and a worked scenario — building a complete EF coaching practice from foundations to ethics.
Establishes the neurobiological and psychological foundations every EF coach must hold. Covers the major models of executive function, the role of the prefrontal cortex, and the specific ways ADHD and neurodivergence disrupt EF — setting the stage for every practical coaching skill that follows.
Working memory is the limited-capacity workspace where active thinking happens — and it is one of the most consistently impaired EF capacities in ADHD. This module covers the science of working memory, how its failure manifests in daily life, and the coaching strategies that systematically offload, externalise and scaffold the working memory demands placed on clients.
Inhibitory control — the ability to pause, suppress prepotent responses, and resist distraction — is the master key of executive function. This module examines the three types of inhibition, how impairment manifests across behavioural, emotional and cognitive domains, and the coaching strategies that build pause capacity and interrupt impulsive patterns.
Time blindness — the impaired sense of time passing and its consequences for planning, punctuality and follow-through — is one of the most disabling and least understood aspects of executive function difficulties. This module covers Barkley's model of temporal processing, the distinction between clock time and felt time, and the practical coaching toolkit for externalising time.
Planning difficulties in ADHD and executive dysfunction go far beyond 'not being organised' — they reflect specific impairments in initiation, sequencing, prioritisation, and sustained follow-through. This module covers the anatomy of a plan, the four points where plans typically break down, ADHD-friendly planning frameworks, and the weekly review as the cornerstone coaching practice.
Emotional regulation — the ability to modulate, tolerate and appropriately express emotional states — is now widely recognised as a core executive function domain, not a separate issue. This module covers the neuroscience of EF-emotion links, Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, the emotional hijacking cycle, and the coaching strategies drawn from DBT, ACT and emotion regulation research that are most applicable to EF coaching.
Habits and routines are the great EF equaliser — once a behaviour is sufficiently habitual, it no longer requires working memory, inhibitory control or planning to execute. This module covers the neuroscience of habit formation, why standard habit advice fails for ADHD brains, the evidence-based principles of habit design, and how to build routines that survive the inevitable disruptions.
Exceptional EF coaching is not just about technique — it is about the quality of the coaching relationship, the coach's clarity about scope of practice, and a commitment to reflective, supervised practice. This module covers the coaching alliance in EF work, the critical distinction between coaching and therapy, how to recognise when a client needs a clinical pathway, and what a sustainable EF coaching practice looks like.
Begin immediately with the self-paced online programme.