ADHD clients find their way to every coach - the life client, the executive, the founder. Most coaches either turn them away or quietly slip into managing symptoms. This course gives you a disciplined way to coach them, across all three lenses, without ever leaving the coaching chair for the clinician's.
The framework that organizes everything, and the lived experience the teaching is built on.
Lesson 0.1 · Three Lenses, One Framework
How the course works: one ADHD-informed coaching stance, applied and compared across the life-coaching client, the executive, and the entrepreneur.
Lesson 1.2.1 · My Path Into This Work
Cherie on coaching ADHD clients as a coach who has ADHD - what the lived experience adds, and the line it never lets her cross.
The rest of the 80 lessons unlock the moment you enroll.
Most ADHD continuing education is a single talk on symptoms and strategies. Useful to know about - but it teaches you to manage a condition, not to coach a person. This course is built the other way.
Six practical shifts. Each is something you'll do differently with your next ADHD client - whoever they are.
Recognise whether the ADHD client in front of you is showing up as the life client, the executive, or the entrepreneur - and how the same pattern asks for different work in each.
Coach the person, not the symptoms. Run the five essentials of the stance - the ADHD lens, safety, collaboration, wonder, and action - instead of slipping into advice, fixing, or managing the condition.
Know what an ADHD intake adds, and contract for the relationship before the outcome - so the agreement holds when energy, focus, and follow-through move the way ADHD moves.
Shift listening, question architecture, goal-setting, and accountability for the ADHD nervous system - and calibrate each one across the three lenses rather than running one default.
Run the three-question decision every session: coach, adjust the contract, or refer. Screen for when another professional is the right room - without diagnosing, treating, or labelling.
Build The ADHD Coach's Working Reference - a workbook, a quick-reference, and a boundary decision flowchart you keep open in sessions long after the course.
One module installs the ADHD-informed stance. The rest work it through presence, intake, identity, skills, systems, energy, domain knowledge, and the boundary - comparing across the three lenses at every step.
The only multi-lens ADHD course in the Series. The same ADHD-informed stance shows up differently depending on who's in front of you - so the course teaches all three side by side, and you learn to recognise which one you're in.
ADHD reshaping daily life, relationships, and self-trust - often arriving after a late realisation that recasts the whole story.
The work: grief and self-trust repair, identity reconstruction, and systems that fit an actual life rather than an idealised one.
ADHD inside a leadership role - high capability, real stakes, and the gap between what they can do and what they can do consistently.
The work: leadership identity with ADHD, energy and focus under organisational load, and the systems that hold at that altitude.
The founder whose identity is fused with the business - where hyperfocus is a superpower and a liability, often in the same week.
The work: founder identity, the hyperfocus-and-crash cycle, the finishing problem, and the structure a one-person business needs.
The same five essentials run through all three - the ADHD lens, safety, collaboration, wonder, and action. Teaching the lenses comparatively is what lets you recognise which one your client is in, and switch cleanly when they move between them.
The three lenses, in writing
ADHD Coaching: The Essentials puts the whole stance into a short read: the three lenses, and the boundary that keeps coaching coaching. 69 pages, yours to keep, and a free companion to the course.
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Not "led by" - written, recorded, and reviewed by a Master Certified Coach who coaches ADHD clients across all three lenses, and who has ADHD herself.
Cherie co-founded Tandem Coaching and coaches life clients, executives, and founders living with ADHD. She has ADHD herself - candid about it, never clinical about it. That lived experience is woven through the course where it fits, and it's also exactly why the boundary matters so much to her: she teaches the line between coaching and clinical care as a discipline you practice, because she has stood on the right side of it for years.
More about Cherie80 short video lessons across 12 modules. Watch on any device, no live sessions to schedule around. Start with the diagnostic, then work the modules in order or jump to the lens you need.
No 30-day, 90-day, or one-year limit. Come back to the executive lens or the boundary module when your next ADHD client walks in. Yours to keep.
Pass the lens-shift scenario quiz and submit your ADHD Coach's Working Reference, reviewed by Cherie Silas, MCC. You'll get a shareable certificate suitable for LinkedIn and L&D reimbursement.
Build The ADHD Coach's Working Reference - workbook, quick-reference, and a boundary decision flowchart - alongside lens-comparison cards, intake additions, and a referral-screening guide. Yours to use in client work long after the course.
One short form, no credit card. Your account is set up immediately - you can be in the first lesson within 60 seconds.
Enroll now and the course is yours, free, for life - even after we turn pricing on once CCE accreditation lands.
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Really free, no catch. The course is at $0 while its ICF CCE accreditation is pending. Pricing turns on once accreditation lands - and if you enrolled before that, the course stays yours, free, for life.
What we ask in return: your email so we can let you know when the CCE designation lands, and the chance to learn from how you use the material.
Once ICF approves the CCE designation for this course, the 20.0 instructional hours - 15 Core Competency, 5 Resource Development - will count toward your renewal CCE requirement. Pre-approval, completion still earns you the certificate and the learning, but the hours aren't yet claimable as ICF CCE.
The course doesn't claim the 3 mandatory ethics renewal hours - earn those elsewhere.
No - and holding that line is one of the things the course actively teaches. This is coaching, not clinical practice. You will not diagnose, assess, treat, or label, and a dedicated module plus a thread through every other module gives you the discipline to stay on the right side of that boundary.
What you do learn is enough ADHD domain knowledge to coach well and to recognise when another professional is the right room - so you can refer cleanly instead of quietly drifting into work that isn't yours to do.
The life-coaching client, the executive, and the entrepreneur. It's the same ADHD-informed stance in all three, but the work looks different in each - so the course teaches them side by side, comparatively.
You don't have to coach all three. Even if you only see one, learning the comparison sharpens your eye for which lens a client is actually in - and they move between lenses more often than you'd expect.
No to both. You need coaching foundations; the course supplies the ADHD-informed stance, the domain knowledge a coach should hold, and the boundary discipline.
Cherie's own lived experience with ADHD is woven through where it fits, but it's there to illustrate the work, not a prerequisite for doing it.
About 20 hours of structured content. Most coaches complete it across 3 to 6 weeks at 3 to 5 hours per week. There's no deadline - your access doesn't expire.
You can watch straight through, or work the modules as your ADHD clients raise the questions each one answers.
Three things you keep using:
1. The ADHD Coach's Working Reference - a workbook, quick-reference, and boundary decision flowchart you build across the course and keep open in sessions.
2. 42 resources - lens-comparison cards, intake additions, the referral-screening guide, and more.
3. A certificate of completion - shareable on LinkedIn; suitable for L&D reimbursement; carries the ICF CCE-Approved Program badge once accreditation lands.
Tandem's flagship programs are ICF Level 1 (ACC) and Level 2 (PCC) - credential-earning programs that take you from no coaching credential to ACC or PCC. Months long, instructor-led, with practice sessions and mentor coaching.
This course is a specialization for coaches who already have foundations. It's narrower in scope (ADHD coaching specifically), shorter (20 hours), self-paced, and complements - rather than replaces - credential training.
The course is yours, free, for life - if you enroll before ICF CCE accreditation lands. Setup takes 60 seconds.
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