ADDvance Speakers

Additional sessions & details coming soon!

speakers in order of appearance

October 1st

Tamara Rosier, PhD
ADHD Center of West Michigan
Dr. Tamara Rosier is the founder of the ADHD Center of West Michigan. She is the author of Your Brain’s Not Broken, You, Me, and Our ADHD Family, and Your Brain’s Not Broken Workbook. Dr. Rosier is the former president of the ADHD Coaches Organization (ACO) and co-chair of the International Conference on ADHD, where she has contributed to advancing conversations around ADHD coaching, emotional regulation, and neurodiversity across the lifespan.
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Lollie Weeks
Fast Brain Coaching
Lollie Weeks is an internationally recognized ADHD and executive function academic and life coach, speaker, and founder of Fast Brain Coaching. She works with students, families, and educators to develop practical strategies that help individuals with ADHD navigate academic and life challenges while building confidence, self-advocacy, and independence. Drawing on extensive professional training and lived experience with ADHD—both personally and as a parent—Lollie brings expertise and empathy to her work. She is passionate about helping individuals leverage their strengths and develop the tools they need to succeed in school and beyond.
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Amanda Leal, CACP-PAAC
Untangled Minds

@ 12:30pm-1:30 PM Eastern Time

Amanda is a Certified ADHD Coach based in Houston, Texas, with a background in Behavior Analysis. She helps individuals better understand how ADHD shows up in their daily lives and develop practical strategies that truly work for their unique minds. She brings a compassionate, supportive approach to coaching, focusing on confidence and lasting progress to help my clients overcome obstacles and move forward. Amanda is a co-facilitator of ADDA’s Becoming a People Person Group, a support group for adults with ADHD, working on strengthening their social skills. She has served on the Professional Advisory Counsel for ADDA-SR since 2024.
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Jami Shapiro, CSA
Silver LInings Transitions
Jami Shapiro is an ADDCA-trained ADHD Coach, host of the Grandma Has ADHD podcast, and author of This Explains So Much: Understanding Undiagnosed ADHD for Those Who Have Too Much, Feel Too Much, or Have Been Told They Are Too Much. As founder of Silver Linings Transitions, a senior move management company, Jami spent years working with chronically disorganized older adults — only to realize that what families often mistook for stubbornness or decline was frequently unrecognized ADHD. A Level 2 Specialist with the Institute for Challenging Disorganization and a Certified Senior Move Manager, she brings a rare combination of lived experience, clinical training, and boots-on-the-ground insight into what ADHD actually looks like in the aging population — and what coaches need to know to serve them well.
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Diane Dempster, MHSA, CPC, PCC
Impact Parents
Diane Dempster, MHSA, CPC, PCC, is a professional coach, speaker, author, educator, and recovering yelling mom. A 2025 CHADD Hall of Fame recipient and co-founder of ImpactParents.com and ImpactADHD®, she teaches a neuro-informed coach-approach to parenting, blending behavior management with change management to help parents and concerned adults empower kids, teens, and young adults to become independent and successful. Diane is the co-host of the Parenting with Impact podcast and co-author of Parenting ADHD Now!. An experienced leader, spiritual wanderer, change agent, and all-around life guide, she is dedicated to helping families create deep, inside-out, sustainable change.
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Elaine Taylor-Klaus, MCC, CPCC
Impact Parents
Elaine Taylor-Klaus, MCC, is a globally recognized thought leader at the intersection of neurodiversity, coaching, and parenting. As co-founder of ImpactADHD® (dba ImpactParents.com), she developed the Neuro-Informed Coaching modality known as the Impact Model. In addition to empowering families, Elaine advocates for coaches and helping professionals to integrate neuro-informed coaching into their existing practices, enabling them to better support complex individuals with confidence, nuance, and effectiveness. A 2025 CHADD Hall of Fame recipient, ICF DEIB Committee member, and mother of an ADHD++ family of six, Elaine brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work. She is the host of the Parenting with Impact podcast and the author of award-winning books and programs, including Parenting ADHD Now! Easy Interventions to Empower Kids with ADHD, The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety and More, and Sanity School® for Parents, Teachers, and Professionals.
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Marc Almodovar
Men’s ADHD Support Group

Coaching Mistakes That Make Men Shut Down

@ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Eastern Time

Marc Almodovar is a community build and ADHD advocate who founded the Men’s ADHD Support Group in 2019 after recognizing the need for a space where men with ADHD could be open, vulnerable, and supported. What began as a Facebook community has grown into the largest men’s ADHD support group on the platform and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to breaking the stigma surrounding ADHD and men’s mental health. Through his advocacy, Marc has been featured in Forbes and leading ADHD podcasts, and continues to speak, educate, and inspire others to rethink what it means to live with ADHD.
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Shane Thrapp
Men’s ADHD Support Group

Coaching Mistakes That Make Men Shut Down

@ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Eastern Time

Marc Almodovar is a community builder and ADHD advocate who founded the Men’s ADHD Support Group in 2019 after recognizing the need for a space where men with ADHD could be open, vulnerable, and supported. What began as a Facebook community has grown into the largest men’s ADHD support group on the platform and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to breaking the stigma surrounding ADHD and men’s mental health. Through his advocacy, Marc has been featured in Forbes and leading ADHD podcasts, and continues to speak, educate, and inspire others to rethink what it means to live with ADHD.
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Sessions, speakers & schedule subject to change.

October 2nd

Mary E. Smith, BS
Chaos Free ADHD
Mary E. Smith is an ADHD Life Coach with more than 15 years of experience helping families reduce conflict, strengthen executive functioning skills, and support children in developing independence. She specializes in translating modern ADHD, motivation, and executive function research into practical, parent-implemented strategies that work in real homes. Mary is the creator of the Chaos Free® Family parent training program and Chaos Free® Homework!, and she regularly speaks to parents, educators, clinicians, and professional audiences on sustainable behavior change without reliance on rewards and punishment.
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Kate Barrett
Coaching C'ville
Kate Barrett, ACC is an ICF-credentialed ADHD coach with more than thirteen years of specialized experience helping adults and students with ADHD build sustainable systems for engagement, productivity, and self-regulation. Her work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, executive function, and practical behavior change — grounded in current research and years of direct client work through her Charlottesville-based practice, Coaching Cville.
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Dorsey McFadden
Live Happy ADHD
Dorsey McFadden is an ADHD Coach, Consultant, and Strategist with a background in digital marketing and business strategy — a combination that gives her a uniquely practical lens on building a visible, sustainable online coaching practice. She is ADDCA-trained and PAAC-credentialed, and is the founder of Coaches Flow Suite, a platform helping ADHD coaches simplify the operational side of their businesses. Dorsey is known for translating complex ideas into tools coaches can use immediately.
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Claire Wieman, LCSW
Evo-Life
Claire Wieman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and founder of Evo-Life, PLLC, a counseling, coaching, and consulting practice based in Ballston Lake, New York. With over 25 years of clinical, teaching, annd leadership experience in both public and private sectors, Claire specializes in Attention Disorders, Relational Trauma, and Self-Actualization Concepts. She is a Certified New York State Continuing Education Provider for Licensed Clinical Social Workers and Licensed Mental Health Counselors, and is passionate about helping practitioners and organizations elevate their service delivery and outcomes.
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Meredith Knauer Crull
Neurodivergent Coaching
Meredith is the founder of Neurodivergent Coaching and Head ADHD Coach at The New School, helping ADHD & AuDHD individuals trade masking and frustration for genuine self-love, strategic growth, and sustainable progress. Drawing on a Master’s Degree in Applied Psychology from the University of New Orleans and her own lived neurodivergent experience, she helps clients stop fighting their biology and start working with their beautiful brains. Since 2019, Meredith has been dedicated to elevating the coaching profession, currently serving as the Members Chair on the board of the Professional Association for ADHD Coaches (PAAC), and actively combating neurodivergent misinformation.
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Edward Thompson, , DNP, NP-P, PMHNP-BC
Russell Sage College
Edward Thompson, DNP, NP-P, PMHNP-BC, is a psychiatric nurse practitioner, educator, and owner of Thompson Psychiatric NPs in New York. His clinical work focuses on children, adolescents, adults, and families navigating ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders, and complex behavioral health concerns. As an Assistant Professor of Nursing and PMHNP clinical educator, Dr. Thompson is passionate about translating evidence-based psychiatric care into practical, compassionate strategies that help individuals better understand their brains, improve functioning, and build sustainable systems for success.
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Sessions, speakers & schedule subject to change.

October 3rd

Eliza Barach, PhD, BCC
Neural Revolution
Dr. Eliza Barach is a cognitive psychologist, ADHD coach, and founder of Neural Revolution — an evidence-based ADHD coaching practice built on the principle that real, lasting change happens when coaching is grounded in how the brain actually works. At Neural Revolution, she leads a team of coaches, offers 1:1 coaching and consulting, and provides professional supervision for ADHD coaches looking to deepen their practice. Drawing on her PhD research in attention, decision-making, and cognitive psychology — and her own experience as an ADHDer who left a traditional career path to build something that finally fit — she bridges science and lived insight in everything she does. As a co-founder of ADDvance, she is deeply committed to building a stronger, better-supported ADHD coaching community. She works with coaches at all stages, both through individual supervision and her practitioner's group, to help them bring more confidence, more science, and more impact to their client work.
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Cameron Gott
An Executive ADHD coach since 2000, Cameron Gott, PCC works with creative leaders and business owners worldwide to help them take action more efficiently and lead more effectively. Dedicated to raising the quality of ADHD coaching, Cam co-founded the Center for ADHD Coaching Excellence with fellow coach Tamara Rosier and has trained and mentored ADHD coaches through a number of training programs. Since 2006 he has been a senior trainer at Coach Approach Training Institute, a Level II ICF ADHD coach training program.
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Adela Baker, PCC & PCAC
Mind Coach
Adela Baker, PCAC is the founder of Mind Coach, LLC, dedicated to helping Turbo Thinkers© – high achievers with fast-moving, highly creative minds – succeed in a neurotypical world. Her journey into ADHD coaching began with discovering her son's "race car brain with tricycle brakes," sparking a mission to transform lives worldwide. With almost 10 years of coaching experience and fluency in five languages, Adela brings a global perspective from New Orleans. As a board member of the ADHD Coaches Organization (ACO) and mentor for PAAC, she reviews and sponsors aspiring ADHD coaches.
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Annamarie Marino, PAAC ACC
New Jersey Coaching Services
Annamarie Marino is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, PAAC Certified ADHD Coach, and ICF-certified Life Coach who brings both a clinical and coaching lens to her work. With expertise in ADHD, executive functioning, mental health, and behavior change, she integrates evidence-based psychiatric knowledge with transformational coaching strategies to support whole-person growth.
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Linda Roggli, PCC
ADDiva Network, Inc.
Linda Roggli, PCC, is the creator of the ADHD Palooza series, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), an award-winning author, and founder of the A-D-Diva Network for ADHD women 40-and-better. She is an internationally recognized expert in midlife and senior ADHD for women with a special emphasis on hormones and ADHD. She was awarded the Mission in Motion lifetime achievement award by ADDA in 2025.
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Lynn Palazzo, MEd, ACC
Collegiate Success Coaching, LLC
Lynn Palazzo is a student success specialist and the founder of Collegiate Success Coaching, bringing decades of experience as a university professor and Director of Orientation at institutions like Clemson, Reinhardt College, and Kennesaw State. An ICF Certified Coach specializing in ADHD and Executive Functioning, she leverages her background training under FYE pioneer Dr. John Gardner to help students navigate the “transition traps” of higher education so they aim higher, learn more, and graduate. Lynn’s unique perspective as a former campus insider allows her to bridge the gap between student potential and performance through personal accountability and self-regulation skills. She is dedicated to transforming academic uncertainty into a clear, actionable pathways toward graduation and lives built on meaning and purpose.
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Brendan Mahan, MEd, MS
ADHD Essentials
Brendan Mahan, M.Ed., MS., is the author of “Overcoming the Wall of Awful™”, and host of the ADHD Essentials Podcast. A sought-after speaker, and neurodivergent person himself, Brendan helps organizations and individuals manage neurodiverse challenges through education, collaborative problem-solving, compassion, and accountability. He is on the board of the Men’s ADHD Support Group, Director of Professional Resources for Calmer Con Boston, and a former committee member of the International Conference on ADHD. He has featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, LinkedIn, Understood, How to ADHD, VeryWell Mind, and ADDitude.
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Sessions, speakers & schedule subject to change.