Pro-bono · for ADHD charity & nonprofit leaders
Rated 5 out of 5 · 100+ leaders coached

Free ADHD coaching for one charity or nonprofit leader, every quarter.

Three months of coaching, given free, to one leader running a charity or nonprofit with an ADHD or AuDHD brain. From a former $20M founder who coaches this brain full time.

No fee. No nonprofit budget needed. The only thing I ask is that you turn up and do the work.

Why the cause exists

You run this because of how your brain works.

You probably started or took over the organisation because something needed fixing and you could not let it go. The same brain that keeps you up half the night on a problem other people gave up on is the brain that saw the need before anyone else named it. That intensity is a lot of why volunteers keep showing up.

Running the place is the part that wears you down. The admin, the board, the grant applications, the reporting, staying consistent once the dopamine has gone. That is the executive function side of ADHD, and caring deeply about the cause does not make any of it easier.

Underneath that sits the harder stuff. The RSD that makes a board member's offhand comment sting for a week. The perfectionism that stalls a funding bid. The avoidance of the boring work that keeps the doors open. We work on your wiring and the patterns you have built on top of it, alongside the organisation itself.

Most coaching is not built for an ADHD brain, and most of it is out of reach on a nonprofit budget. This is my answer to both.

The programme

What you receive.

Three coaching sessions over three months, working on a real problem ADHD is causing in your organisation right now.

Three sessions, three months

Spaced across a quarter so the work has time to land between calls, rather than crammed into one conversation you will forget.

Forty-five minutes, over video

Held at times that fit around running the organisation, wherever you are in the world.

On a real problem

We pick the thing that is actually stuck, the funding decision you keep postponing, the team issue you are avoiding, the structure that keeps falling apart, and work it through.

Your brain and your patterns

We also handle the draining RSD, perfectionism, passivity and avoidance that sit behind the stuck thing.

Why I run this

Why I give this away.

I have had my share of adversity, and I know what it is like to carry something heavy while trying to keep a thing running. Charities and nonprofits are kept alive by people doing exactly that every day, usually for less recognition than they have earned.

I am AuDHD, ADHD and autism together. I built a previous business to $20M in sales before I understood why some things felt effortless and others were flat out impossible. For the last five years I have coached ADHD and AuDHD leaders full time, over a hundred of them, and I usually read how your brain and personality work inside the first ten minutes.

Giving three months to one leader each quarter is a small way to put that back where it counts.

$20M
Business I built in sales
100+
Leaders coached
5 yrs
Coaching this brain, full time

Former $20M founder · AuDHD brain · psychotherapy background · accredited by the Association for Coaching, UK. Sessions run over video, so I coach leaders worldwide.

Phil Drinkwater, ADHD and AuDHD coach
How to apply

How to apply.

No lengthy application. Just the essentials.

1

Send the short form

A few minutes. Tell me about the organisation and the problem you want to work on.

2

I review and select

I read applications regularly and choose one leader each quarter.

3

We start, or you wait

If it is not this quarter, you stay on the waiting list and I consider you for the next one.

There is no catch. It is entirely free. My only ask is that you show up fully. If you run a business rather than a charity, my paid ADHD business coaching is the right place to start.