Frankie Berkoben, MSc
ADHD Coach for Professionals in Tech
I help brilliant adults in tech work WITH their powerful always-on brains and strong emotions not against them.
Coaching with Frankie
I help ✨brilliant✨ multi-passionate generalists build bold, unapologetic lives with everything they bring to the table:🏇 Powerful, always-on brains
🏆 Overlooked strengths
🎢 Intense feels
🎭 Multiple passions + vocations
🌪 All the ideas all the time
🔥 Consistent inconsistency
☔ Overwhelm + burnout🎯 I coach adults plagued by the curse of 🔮 high potential and 🚧 inconsistent follow-through, especially those labeled twice-exceptional/gifted early in life or whose ADHD traits went unrecognized for other reasons such as gender, upbringing, race etc.About half of my clients are part of the Late Diagnosis Club (or suspect they might be), and work with me to:💬 self-advocate for no-stigma ADHD support🧭 navigate the pre/post-diagnosis logistical “walls of awful” and emotional rollercoaster🔥 build a shame-free life based on strengths not regrets
Premium micro-group coaching experiences for brilliant ADHD professionals who have been successful but at great cost: burnout, shame, low self-confidence.9 sessions including a 1:1 coaching session;
private Slack community;
accelerated progress towards working WITH your ADHD.Click these links for more details! 👉
2023 COHORTS
Meet Frankie
Based in the SF Bay Area, originally from 🇮🇪/🇬🇧, I am a:
🎓 PhD + MBA dropout
🧱 no-code software programmer
🚀 product + program manager
🚴 endurance cyclist
🎤 public speaker + storyteller
🌵 succulent hoarder
🎼 classical pianist/singer and
👷🏻 former EPA geologist.Some passion projects in the works include an algorithm-matched ADHD Professional Directory (like Tinder, but for finding good-fit coaches!), 🎙 podcast interviews, workgroups on 🚀 building your authentic ADHD life, and offerings specific to gifted ADHDers in tech 👩💻.As an ardent mental health advocate with impostor syndrome, I spend a lot of time giving to the ADHD community.You'll find me leading ADDA's biweekly HighIQ ADHD virtual peer support group and volunteering behind the scenes with ADHD coach organizations ACO and PAAC, as well as practicing radical honesty over on Instagram @adhdperfectionist.
Volunteering
ADD Association
Facilitator
High IQ + ADHD Virtual Support Group
2nd, 4th, 5th Thursdays 8pm ET
ADHD Coaches Organization (ACO)
Programs Committee
Case Collaborations
SF Storytellers Toastmasters
(former) VP Membership
Mondays 12pm PT
Speaking & workshops
2022 Int'l Conference on ADHD
Solopreneurship is B.S. Alternatives for ADHD coaches
2022 ADDA Webinar
🍋 Zest, Sass & Spark: Seligman's Positive Psychology
2021 Int'l Conference on ADHD
🚀 Your ADHD Dream Team
💡Applying Agile to ADHD
Agile, Design Thinking & ADHD
Talks, podcasts & workshops
projects in flight
Building your Authentic ADHD Life
Workshop series
Rolling cohort dates
ADHD Coach Collective
An algorithm-matched ADHD Professional Directory (like Tinder, but for finding good-fit coaches!)
currently in beta
Let's get in touch
I'm working on being less hard to find! #impostorsyndrome
free pdf resource:
types of bandwidth
Set yourself up for success by identifying & managing different types of bandwidth. This accompanies a 10min TADD talk.
This 10min talk explains the PDF resource in more detail!Note that due to the unexpectedly early arrival of a teeny tiny human, I'm on medical leave with limited bandwidth until mid-November. Expect to receive an email containing the types of bandwidth worksheet in a couple of weeks!In the meantime, check out the links below 👇
Hope you're enjoying the conference!
In-person connection at last! Excitement! Overwhelm! Sensory overstimulation! FOMO!I hear you. With all the people to see and sessions to attend, let's strengthen our own connection at a pace that doesn't burn us out.
If launching an ADHD coaching business is on your radar, come to "Solopreneurship isn't the only way! Creative approaches to getting started as a new ADHD coach" (Thu 11/17 5pm CT Exhibition Level, Cumberland L) to get some fresh perspectives!