Are you a leader, entrepreneur or ambitious high-achieving professional looking for an excellent transformational careers, life and business coach who is an expert in dyslexia and neurodiversity? If your answer is ‘yes’, then you’re in great hands.

People with dyslexia have incredible entrepreneurial skills, people skills and make fantastic leaders. Your right-brain talents and creative ability to problem solve right outside the box, together with lateral thinking skills, high emotional intelligence and your innate ability to generate great ideas are just some of your many extraordinary talents. However, with your incredible talents come some big frustrations. Frustrations that others may not understand. 

I understand those frustrations. 

I have 25 years’ experience in coaching, mentoring and supporting high achieving men and women who have dyslexia, ADHD or any other wonderful creative neuro-ability that causes frustration and holds you back in your career and life. 

I can help you draw out your extraordinary brilliance, unlock your creative mind and support you in maximising your potential and performance, achieving incredible life goals, business goals and creating the right career path and lifestyle for you.

“Carolina is one of the UK’s leading transformational leadership, life, executive careers and business coaches.”

It is my privilege to coach incredible men and women of all ages: Leaders in their field, successful Entrepreneurs, Million dollar real estate owners, Celebrities, CEOs, Founders, Executives, Barristers, Lawyers, Surgeons, Bankers, Asset Managers, Doctors, Actors, Choreographers, Film producers, Film Directors, Fashion Stylists, Sportsmen, Coaches, Creatives, Designers, Marketeers, talented young people and busy high-performing professionals.

I guide you to identify new directions, new possibilities, exciting career paths, improve leadership skills, increase business growth, adopt new strategies and a positive growth mindset to move forward and achieve change and personal growth.

My experience and qualifications include significant specialist training in coaching and psychotherapy, identifying and working with giftedness, talented people, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia and ADHD, ASD, Sensory Processing Disorders, interpersonal neurobiology, certified transformational life coach, executive careers coaching, business mentor and coach, psychometric assessor of general intelligence and IQ and award-winning author.  I have twenty five years’ experience in coaching high performing individuals and leaders. 

 

Typical strengths of dyslexia in the workplace

• You are an innovative thinker. Non-linear thinking patterns often seen in both ADHD and dyslexia can lead to innovative and unconventional approaches to problem-solving.
• You are very driven, highly ambitious, and aim for success in all that you do
• You are likely to be an expert in your field
• Many professionals with dyslexia are entrepreneurs or leaders, or reach the top of their profession
• You have outstanding leadership qualities and great people skills
• You are a visionary and have excellent intuition
• You have excellent business acumen
• You are able to think right out the box and see things from a different perspective
• You know how to delegate
• You are determined, persistent and put in huge amounts of effort in all that you do. You don’t give up
• You have high Emotional Intelligence (EI)
• You have excellent problem solving skills
• You may be a perfectionist (see below)
• You are an holistic, big picture thinker with big ideas
• You have excellent visual perception. You can ‘see’ things very quickly (that others can’t see), sometimes in 3D
• You prefer a multi-sensory approach: hands-on experience, demonstrations, experimentation, observation and visual stimuli
• You are very creative and resourceful
• You have good long-term memory skills (see below)
• You are incredibly curious and adventurous
• You are empathic and compassionate 
• You can manage many different tasks simultaneously (see below)
• You have energy and you are generally positive and upbeat
• You may have good organisational skills (see below)
• You may be an entertaining and powerful speaker
• You may have excellent presentation skills, often better than others, due to your understanding of multi-sensory learning

 

Typical challenges of dyslexia in and out of the workplace

With your incredible talents, strengths and high intelligence, may come some typical challenges and frustrations that vary from person to person.

• Difficulties with executive function and working memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, planning and organisation, self-monitoring, initiation, and emotional regulation
• Unfounded stigma and lack of understanding by others of how a highly intelligent person could possibly have dyslexia, which may affect your self-esteem
• Suffer from emotional dysregulation, such as anxiety, panic attacks, depression, anger, sadness
• You may have a fear of failure or a fear of success or be a perfectionist that freezes you from achieving your goals
• Lack of self-confidence and negative self-image that may affect your personal life
• If you are not reaching your potential, you are likely to be feeling highly frustrated, possibly angry or have low mood or feel depressed
• Have relationship issues 
• In your working environment, there may be challenges that drag you down, bore you or overwhelm you, such as admin tasks, writing tasks, reading large quantities of information or organisational skills
• Sensitivity to your environment which may negatively affect your performance: background noise, poor lighting, sensitivity to heat/cold, space etc
• You are probably not living to your true potential
• You may feel fed up with having to continually prove yourself or not getting that promotion or not effectively actioning your amazing business ideas
• With your determination, high energy and desire to be successful, you run the risk of burnout
• Poor time management and work-life balance may pose a problem
• Whilst you have incredible long-term memory, short-term working memory generally poses an issue, especially auditory working memory
• Challenges in identifying the detail of the big picture and then sequencing tasks in the right order
• Difficulty completing multi-steps tasks 
• Remembering large quantities of information needs to be presented in your preferred style of learning, often a visual preference with use of diagrams, colour, pictures, easy to read fonts and interaction
• Fear of failing vocational exams

Whether you want help in your career and identifying career direction, business growth, clarity in your personal life, improved relationships or want to tackle any blind spots or get unstuck from achieving meaningful goals, I can help you.

 

Some facts: Entrepreneurship and dyslexia

Did you know that up to 20% of entrepreneurs in the UK and 35% in the US have dyslexia, and that many forward-thinking, innovative organisations are purposefully hiring people with dyslexia to grow their businesses, such as GCHQ, EY (Ernst & Young) and Apple? Research conducted by Cass Business School confirms that dyslexic entrepreneurs tend to be great leaders and:

• employ more people
• be team builders
• delegate more frequently
• build their organisations more rapidly
• be serial entrepreneurs

 

Schedule a Complimentary Telephone or Zoom Conversation

If you are interested in us working together, email me or complete the Contact Form to book a 15-minute free telephone consultation to explain how I work, or we can schedule in a one-off Deep Dive coaching session via Zoom to talk about what you want to achieve, what’s holding you back, and how I can help you. I will get back to you within 24 hours.

Telephone: +44 (0)7970 717119

Email:  coach@carolinafrohlich.co.uk

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Hours: Mon – Fri: 8AM – 6PM. Saturday, by prior arrangement.