Coaching for Neurodiverse Success

Jess Jarmo | Founder, CEO & Public Speaker

An advocate and pioneer in neurodivergent career coaching, Jess Jarmo brings over 18+ years of recruitment and coaching experience to the table. Drawing on her personal journey with Dyslexia, Anxiety, and ADHD, Jess transforms her lived experiences into powerful tools for empowering others. She knows firsthand that neurodiversity isn’t a challenge to overcome; it’s a strength waiting to be harnessed.

Rooted in real-world understanding and a deep passion for guiding individuals with ADHD, anxiety, dyslexia, and autism, Jess's coaching unlocks unique potential. Her tailored programs build confidence, enhance natural abilities, and turn talents into standout career advantages.

At Jess Jarmo Consulting, clients don’t just receive coaching—they gain a supportive ally who truly understands their journey. Jess’s approach inspires confidence, resilience, and authentic career growth that aligns with each client’s strengths and aspirations. Connect with Jess today to start transforming your potential into lasting success.

Kirstin Carey | Vice President of Operations

Kirstin Carey is the Vice President of Operations at Jess Jarmo Neurodivergent Career Coaching, where she oversees the systems, strategy, enrollment, and client experience that support clients from their first interaction with the company through coaching and beyond.

Kirstin brings decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business consultant, natural health practitioner and wellness coach, and former restaurant owner. Having built and operated businesses herself, she understands that solving a problem often requires looking beyond what is happening on the surface to understand the individual, the environment, and the systems surrounding them.

At Jess Jarmo, Kirstin works across the organization, supporting the enrollment and coaching teams, strengthening operational systems, improving the client journey, and helping ensure each client receives support that is personalized to their goals and circumstances. She also works directly with prospective clients and families during the enrollment process and steps in when clients need additional support, clarification, or problem-solving.

Her approach is practical and direct: understand what is actually happening, identify what is getting in the way, and determine the most useful path forward.

Kirstin believes effective support cannot be one-size-fits-all. For neurodivergent adults in particular, meaningful solutions begin with understanding the whole person rather than trying to force them into a predetermined career path, workplace model, or definition of success.

Elsie Praeger | Team Lead & Enrollment Coach

Meet Elsie! With over 5 years of experience as a career coach, she’s all about helping you build skills to land your next role. Before coaching, Elsie worked as a recruiter, so she knows exactly what hiring managers want to see.

Based in sunny Arizona , Elsie holds a master’s in education and specializes in breaking down complex processes into clear, easy-to-follow steps. Her goal is simple: remove the guesswork and help you achieve your goals.

As someone with ADHD and autism, Elsie brings a neurodivergent lens to her work and deeply relates to clients who think and process the world differently. She’s passionate about creating supportive, tailored strategies that truly work for you.

Cheyenne Ryan | Enrollment Coach

Cheyenne takes the decision to invest in support to heart. In 9 years of coaching and enrollment, she has seen what the right help at the right moment can do.

At home, Cheyenne lives with the gifts and challenges of neurodivergent minds. She's a mom to gifted and neurodivergent twins, plus a dog with ADHD (yes, it’s 100% a thing). Raising twins also uncovered layers of her own neurodivergence hidden under a lifetime of masking, overachieving, and occasional burnout. So when you tell her what you’re up against, she gets it. 

In her words: “These calls are my calling. With Jess’s support, I’d have found them years earlier.”

On an exploratory call, she keeps things clear, practical, and focused on you, so that you feel seen, respected, and empowered in your decision.

Benjamin Greene | Neurodivergent Career Coach

Benjamin Greene works with Jess Jarmo Coaching to provide affirming, strategic career support for neurodivergent professionals seeking meaningful work and job sustainability. With a background in counseling and mental health, he helps clients—whether breaking into tech, pivoting industries, or redefining success—navigate their career journeys with clarity and confidence.


Over the past decade, he’s coached hundreds, created career readiness curricula, and trained coaches at major tech bootcamps and boutique organizations. Benjamin’s empathy is personal: his own early-career uncertainty fuels his deep understanding of the challenges people face.

He holds a Master’s in Integral Counseling Psychology and a BA in Cultural Anthropology, grounding his approach in clinical insight and a holistic understanding of human experience. At JessJarmo.com, Benjamin contributes to a coaching model that centers identity, neurodivergent strengths, and real-world career tools.

AJ Lamm | Neurodivergent Career Coach

AJ Lamm is a seasoned career coach who has helped hundreds of individuals—from recent grads to senior executives—achieve meaningful, sustainable success. He specializes in supporting neurodivergent professionals, including those with ADHD, anxiety, and autism spectrum identities, guiding them to thrive in high-performance industries like tech.

AJ’s coaching is holistic and outcomes-driven, covering job search strategy, resume storytelling, interview prep, executive function support, and onboarding. His clients have landed roles at top companies including Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Apple, and Cisco—not just securing jobs, but excelling in them.
As a neurodivergent person himself, AJ brings deep empathy and lived experience to his work. His approach is grounded in practical strategies and mindset shifts, rooted in the belief that neurodivergence is a strength to be harnessed—not a flaw to be fixed.

With a background in tech sales, customer success, and leadership, AJ understands performance and motivation across industries. His creative training in Digital Filmmaking and Motion Graphic Art Design adds a unique edge, blending technical fluency with psychological insight. AJ’s coaching blends clarity, compassion, and strategic action—empowering each client to define success on their own terms and move forward with confidence.

Riley Christensen | Neurodivergent Career Coach

Riley comes to Jess Jarmo Coaching with extensive experience working with neurodiverse job-seeking individuals navigating career development and workplace success. With a background in executive functioning coaching in higher education, she has supported neurodiverse individuals in strengthening executive functioning skills and preparing for meaningful employment. Her areas of expertise include executive functioning skill building, career planning, and workplace communication. She specializes in helping individuals move from feeling overwhelmed to prepared by breaking complex goals into actionable and manageable steps.

Riley’s coaching style is highly collaborative, strengths-based, and structured. She centers her approach on building trusting relationships where individuals feel valued and actively supported throughout their journey. She works closely with individuals to identify barriers, develop practical strategies, and create sustainable systems that support both immediate goals and long-term career growth.

She is passionate about creating an affirming environment where individuals feel empowered to build skills as they pursue careers that align with their strengths and values. She firmly believes meaningful growth happens when people are met with both deep understanding and practical tools. She is especially committed to working alongside individuals not only to achieve their career goals, but also to holistically build confidence, develop supportive systems, and strengthen the skills needed to thrive both personally and professionally.

 

Alisha Bedassie | Neurodivergent Career Coach

Alisha is passionate about helping neurodivergent individuals recognize their strengths, build confidence, and create careers that align with their unique goals, values, and abilities. With nearly a decade of experience in education, workforce development, coaching, mentoring, human services, and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), she has supported hundreds of individuals in building skills, overcoming barriers, and achieving meaningful personal and professional growth.


She holds an Associate's degree in Human Services, a Bachelor's degree in Human Services Management and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis with a specialization in Education. Her education and hands-on experience in behavior analysis provide her with a strong understanding of learning, executive functioning, communication, motivation, and individualized support. She uses this knowledge to help autistic, ADHD, and other neurodivergent individuals navigate the workplace with confidence while staying true to themselves.


Throughout her career, Alisha has supported hundreds of college students, job seekers, young professionals, and individuals with disabilities through career development, mentoring, workforce readiness, and behavioral support. She has experience supporting clients across a variety of industries, including healthcare, human services, culinary arts, photography, digital arts and media, art, and theater.



Alisha believes there is no one-size-fits-all approach to success. Her coaching style is collaborative, inclusive, compassionate, and strengths-based, creating a welcoming, judgment-free space where clients feel heard, supported, and empowered to advocate for themselves while building fulfilling careers and lives.



Outside of coaching, Alisha enjoys spending time with friends and family, watching movies, trying new foods, exploring new experiences, and writing poetry. One fun fact about Alisha is that she can sing opera.

Shannon M. Smith | Neurodivergent Career Coach

Shannon Smith comes to Jess Jarmo Coaching with over 12 years of experience coaching military members and their families — including dedicated work with the Exceptional Family Member Program, where he supported individuals and families navigating neurodivergent needs such as ADHD, anxiety, and developmental differences. That work is where his passion for affirming, strengths-based coaching began, and it has shaped everything about how he shows up for clients today.

As an ICF Associate Certified Coach with credentials in leadership development and peer support, Shannon specializes in helping neurodivergent professionals uncover their blind spots, harness their natural strengths, and build practical career strategies that work with how their brain operates — not against it. His approach is structured, direct, and grounded in genuine care for each client's long-term success.

Shannon holds an MBA and brings military-grade discipline, deep empathy, and a decade of real-world coaching experience to every session. He firmly believes that neurodivergence is not a flaw to be managed — it is a strength waiting to be channeled. His goal is simple: to be the coach he wishes his EFMP families had access to from the very beginning.

Rebecca Rapoport-Cole | Neurodivergent Career Coach

Rebecca is a Trauma-Informed Executive Function + Life Coach with 15+ years of experience across coaching, nonprofit leadership, and entrepreneurship. She holds an ICF-ACC credential and combines practical Executive Function skills with an individualized coaching approach, built around how each client actually thinks and operates.

Rebecca specializes in helping neurodivergent clients build sustainable ways of working and living, helping them regulate emotions, build follow-through, find work that excites them, and thrive once they're in it.

She has a particular interest in working with creatives (professional and hobbyists), including those navigating nontraditional or multi-track careers.

As a professional performer, Rebecca has built her own structures to balance multiple income streams and career passions. She knows firsthand what it takes to create stability without sacrificing the work and interests that make life meaningful — and she brings that same clarity to her clients.

Outside of coaching, Rebecca can be found hopping between New York City’s jazz clubs or chasing those rare unicorn moments when her nephews actually feel like talking on FaceTime.

Laura Risser Moss | Neurodivergent Career Coach

Laura comes to Jess Jarmo Coaching with 11 years of coaching experience and a lifelong throughline of supporting neurodivergent individuals across professional development, education, and sports. Her diverse background includes early experience as a career placement specialist, years as an educational aide, and seasons as a Special Olympics track and swimming coach. 

Grounded in her certifications in Brain Health, Somatic Embodiment, and Nervous System Regulation, she recognizes that a resilient nervous system is essential for optimal executive function. Having raised four adult neurodivergent daughters navigating ADHD, auditory processing, and sensory differences, Laura brings a lifetime of real-world empathy and advocacy to every session.

She specializes in helping clients find clarity around their unique passions and strengths, identify and bypass task initiation hurdles, navigate interview anxiety, and manage workplace overwhelm. 

Laura’s coaching style focuses on helping clients uncover what they naturally do best, giving them the tools and confidence to steer their professional lives on their own terms. She works collaboratively with clients to strengthen executive functioning skills, breaking complex objectives down into clear, manageable actions that spark immediate momentum. By helping clients design a personalized toolkit to manage stress on the spot, she supports them in finding, building, and maintaining a career that authentically honors their strengths and brings alignment across all life domains.

When she’s not coaching, Laura is an avid reader who loves hiking, exploring art galleries, engaging in everything creative, catching live music, and feeding her adventurous spirit through solo international travel.

Jodi Johnston | Neurodivergent Career Coach

Jodi is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with over 15 years of experience helping people learn, grow, and move forward. She supports clients as they navigate change, build confidence, and create a life that feels more aligned with what matters most to them.

Her coaching provides a warm, supportive space for clients to think things through, explore possibilities, and work through challenges that may be holding them back. She helps them build on their strengths and identify practical next steps that feel right for them.

Jodi has coached more than 150 clients from a wide range of backgrounds. Whatever brings someone to coaching, she starts by meeting them where they are and understanding what they want for themselves.

Wendy Mello | Neurodivergent Career Coach

Wendy Mello is a late-diagnosed ADHDer who understands firsthand what it feels like to navigate a world that wasn’t designed for the way her brain works. Living with ADHD and anxiety has shaped her perspective, deepened her compassion, and strengthened her belief that there is no single “right” way to think, work, or succeed.

She believes neurodivergent people don’t need to be fixed. Instead, they need opportunities to understand themselves, discover their strengths, and find systems that work with their brains rather than against them.

Wendy brings decades of compassionate leadership experience in healthcare, including the past decade specializing in informatics, process improvement, and workflow redesign. Throughout her career, she has been passionate about understanding how people work, identifying barriers, and finding practical ways to make everyday processes more effective. She brings that same curiosity and problem-solving mindset to coaching, along with a genuine love of helping people discover what works best for them.

As an ICF-ACC certified coach with advanced-level education in ADHD and productivity, Wendy helps neurodivergent clients explore their strengths, navigate challenges, and develop personalized strategies for managing time, organizing their lives, building sustainable routines, and working toward their goals. Rather than relying on one-size-fits-all solutions, she works collaboratively with clients to find approaches that fit their brains, circumstances, and priorities.

Her coaching is grounded in compassion, curiosity, and the belief that meaningful change begins with understanding yourself rather than judging yourself. Wendy helps clients recognize that they don’t have to force themselves into systems designed for everyone else. With the right exploration, support, and tools, they can create their own way forward. Wendy’s goal is to help clients move from feeling overwhelmed or frustrated to feeling more confident, capable, and empowered to build a life and career that works for them.