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Organizational skills training for ADHD often stops at planners and schedules. Learn what individualized executive function coaching adds.

If you’re searching for how to manage ADHD employees, there’s a good chance you’re already trying to do right by someone on your team. Maybe you’ve seen brilliant ideas and missed deadlines from the same person in the same week, and you aren’t sure what to do with both.

Most advice about time management assumes the problem is organizational. That if you just found the right planner, the right system, or the right method for blocking your calendar, everything would fall into place. For many professionals, that assumption is the reason none of it has worked.

Most people who come to executive function coaching have already tried the obvious things. The planners, productivity apps, and color-coded priority calendars. They've read the recommended books, followed all the advice, and found that none of it held for very long, because none of it was designed around how their specific brain actually works. The CEF Method™ is our answer to that problem. It's the personalized approach that underlies every coaching engagement at Coaching Ex

Jacquelyn Harper MS, OTR/L, ADHD-RSP is the founder of Coaching Executive Function and a registered Occupational Therapist with over 15 years of experience supporting neurodivergent professionals. She specializes in executive function coaching for adults, founders, and high-achieving professionals navigating ADHD, executive dysfunction, and cognitive overload.

If your desk is filled with half-finished projects or you have a hard time focusing on tasks, you're most likely experiencing what's known as executive dysfunction, and you're not alone.