Host Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe introduces the eighth episode of Season 12 of the Meet the Mancunian podcast featuring Isabel Lepist, a neurodiversity coach and ADHD advocate. Isabel shares her shift from 25+ years in corporate HR to founding At The Millpond after a late diagnosis, including creating a workplace neurodivergent employee support group and training as an ADHD coach.
She explains how coaching helps adults—often overwhelmed and vulnerable—move from crisis and dysregulation to balance, improved relationships, and thriving at work, and argues organisational success requires attitudinal change, inclusion, and retention-focused practices. Isabel recounts a 12-week coaching case that improved a client’s work belonging and personal life, discusses challenges of entrepreneurship with ADHD and outlines a “stocktake” motivation exercise.
Did you know:
· About 15% of adults in the UK (1 in 7) is neurodiverse
· There are an estimated 2.5 million undiagnosed neurodivergent adults in the UK.
Key resource:
Time stamps of key moments in the podcast episode & transcript:
(01:45) Roots in Stockport
(02:37) From HR to ADHD Coaching
(05:05) Defining success and impact
(11:02) A life changing client story
(14:54) Challenges of going solo
(16:49) Staying motivated with ADHD
(20:32) What’s next for At The Millpond
(27:28) Signature questions
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