Wendy Taylor
ADHD Career and Tech Founder Coach
What are your areas of interest?
Tech founders, solopreneurs, job seekers, promotion seekers — ADHD, Neurodivergent
Best way for potential clients to contact you
I am a Maryland teacher and youth + family services director turned San Francisco tech startup exec turned management consultant and NOW — a Nashville ADHD founder coach and career coach. I've been geeking out about neurodivergent humans since my 20's.
When I'm not working with clients: I'm photographing my foodie creations in my home test kitchen, keeping score at baseball games, singing classical choral music, and hosting dinner salons bringing Nashville tech founders and Nashville songwriters + musicians together.
What is a superpower folks with ADHD have?
An ability to dive deep when the subject really matters (to them).
How would you describe your unique style of working with clients?
Sometimes it is more coach, sometimes it is more teacher. I've led teams of as many as 400 people in my career.
What do you love about working with your clients?
I find their brains stimulating. I'm gifted, not on the autism spectrum, I don't have ADHD. But obviously my gifted brain has some overlaps — although I actually have an abundance of executive function, which is unusual. People with ADHD are my people and have been since I met my first child with ADHD in 1991 in a youth + family services program I was leading.
What do you recommend to help clients focus on their work?
Wow — so usually we figure out what works for them — it can be doing the easy thing first, it can be an energy shift activity (like cardio), it can be something that soothes and helps them breathe. It can be coworking like at Focused Space.
Is there a recent testimonial you'd like to share?
Clients use words like "clarity," "calm," and "breathe" to describe what happens when they work with me. Today someone told me, "you help unravel the twisted thoughts in my head and make me feel smarter."
What does mental wellbeing mean to you?
Balance. Not equal balance. Flexible, fluid balance.
Qualifications
M.A in Holistic Counseling Psychology
Client Expertise
ADHD women, business owners, and artists
Coaching Approach
Although I trained as a therapist and have experience using CBT, DBT, ACT, and solution-focused strengths-based therapies, the work that I do now as a coach is not so much a "treatment" as much as it is an experience of your innate wholeness and an activation of your inner power in this present moment to create the life you desire to have.