Emma Allsopp
Emma is a solutions-focused executive coach, mentor, tutor/trainer with over 30 years’ experience of working across the educational lifespan, and in the last decade working with clients as they transition within the workplace. Across her varied roles, including most recently that of Workplace Needs Assessor and coping strategy coach (through private contract and Access To Work funding), she champions the talents and rights of disabled individuals, specifically those from neurominorities, presenting in the main with learning and working profiles of dyslexia, dyspraxia, AD(H)D and Autistic spectrum conditions (ASC). Her clients have worked in public, private and third sector roles.
Through coaching, mentoring and coaching supervision, Emma has supported individuals to develop understanding of neurodivergence through challenging stereotypes and misconceptions around neuro-variance and disability and also adopt strengths-based approaches to workplace conversations about neurodiversity. Autistic clients have valued her in building schemata for understanding the working world they are navigating and also about themselves, as well as their allistic counterparts
Emma sits on the Advisory Board of Diverse Minds Magazine, a cutting edge e-magazine seeking to bridge the gender gap in neurodiversity and is also a member of the Global Supervisors’ Network. She holds membership of Association for Coaching and the Institute of Leadership and Management, and is applying for Master Supervisor accreditation with Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision.