Our Team

CEO – Prison Reform & Youth Crime 

AUTHOR ‘THE PRISON COUNSELLOR’

ADHD & OFFENDING KEYNOTE SPEAKER

SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE EXPERT SPEAKER

YOUTH OFFENDING EXPERT ADVISER & SPEAKER

ADHD & HOMELESSNESS KEYNOTE SPEAKER

ADHD IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM & EDUCATION TRAINER

POLICE, PROBATION & PRISON SCREENING PROJECT MANAGER

PRISON ADHD AWARENESS CAMPAIGN MANAGER

Sarah was diagnosed with combined ADHD two months before her 52nd birthday. She thought that explained her life until at 56, she was diagnosed with severe dyspraxia, dyscalculia and sensory processing disorder.

Sarah is a qualified counsellor and coach and did much of her counselling in Young Offender units and adult male prisons.

She now dedicates her life to helping ADHD people who have found themselves in difficult situations. She has a particular passion for the homeless having volunteered for homeless charities for nearly 30 years including Crisis and The Big Issue.

She also worked for a short time in addiction and understands the desperation of people struggling with different addictions, especially those who don’t realise that the underlying problem is undiagnosed ADHD.

She was always particularly fond of getting her hands on Young Offenders and changing their life trajectory! To spread the word further, she now writes books on parenting and teaching ADHD children primarily to keep them on the right path and stop them falling into the school-to-prison pipeline, which is rammed with ADHD.

In 2025 she released her book ‘The Prison Counsellor’ about her time working in the prisons to expose the amount of ADHD she found there.

She is frequently to be found on radio, television and podcasts, raising ADHD awareness and thoroughly rubbishing the ‘naughty’ label ADHD continues to have.

The last time she remembers having time for any hobbies was about 20 years ago. All her time is now taken up helping people and nothing gives her more pleasure.

AMBASSADOR – Police ADHD Awareness 

LONDON POLICE OFFICER 30+ YEARS

ADHD & THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

PARTNERSHIP & PREVENTION ADVOCATE

YOUTH CRIME ADVOCATE

Rachel started her policing career in South East London in 1994.  She was diagnosed with ADHD in 2023 at the age of 52 – and she thanks her four children for busting the stigma and her misconceptions of ADHD which has led her to better understanding her quirky life.

Rachel became fascinated with the traits and behaviours that ADHD people present with, which led her to reflect on the last 30 years of her policing career.  She began to realise that many, many people she’d met either through arresting them, or their homelessness or addiction issues were probably living with undiagnosed or unmanaged ADHD.

Rachel is proud to have been part of the first ADHD Liberty Worldwide custody screening pilot with the City of London Police and hopes that this has played a small part in transforming the way the Criminal Justice system views neurodiversity.  She firmly believes that diagnosis and treatment of ADHD can prevent offending and reoffending. Screening for ADHD throughout the whole CJS will positively impact families and communities immeasurably.

Rachel loves a road trip and spends a lot of time on the A303 up and down to Devon – and has recently discovered the benefits of audiobooks!

AMBASSADOR – Inattentive ADHD 

ADHD & THE LAW KEYNOTE SPEAKER

QUALIFIED SOLICITOR (ENGLAND & WALES)

ADHD EXPERT TRAINER & SPEAKER

NEURODIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE ADVISER

Georgie qualified as a Solicitor in 2020 and has a BA Honours Degree in Politics from Durham University.

She was labelled as gifted as a child, academically brilliant apart from Maths – she still does not understand how she managed to get an A in GCSE maths! She was also a talented dancer.

As an employment lawyer, Georgie has guided clients through particularly difficult corporate re-organisations, redundancies and exits.  She found the value in her work in the soft skills required to achieve the best possible results for her clients.

Georgie has undertaken extensive charity work within the legal sphere, from mentoring A-level students to completing a secondment with a legal advice centre assisting clients with debt struggles.

Georgie is passionate about helping ADHD people who have struggled to understand why everything feels like an uphill battle just like she did before she received the right diagnosis.

She now works as an ADHD Coach away from the corporate world and is passionate about helping those feeling misunderstood and like underachievers.

Georgie splits her time between York and London.

AMBASSADOR – International ADHD Awareness

INTERNATIONAL ADHD ADVOCATE

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Andrea has over 30 years experience advocating for children and adults with ADHD.

She is the only person in the UK to have received the OBE for her long-term work supporting people with ADHD.

Thirty years ago she set up the first National ADHD charity in the UK – ADDISS, funded by a Department of Health Grant. This was following the diagnosis of her two sons. Andrea had to go abroad to find the information she needed to help her children. At that time there was no support, no resources and no information about ADHD. So Andrea decided to do it herself and to help others.

Andrea has been very involved with ADHD Europe. She has served as both President and Vice President.

Andrea and ADDISS are partners in many European research consortiums and she chairs the PPIE Boards for a number of research projects at Kings College London, Southampton University and Nottingham University.

Andrea travels and speaks internationally on the importance of early identification of ADHD to avoid the negative trajectory so often associated with undiagnosed, untreated and poorly managed ADHD.

She is a passionate advocate for ADHD screening in the education system as well as the criminal justice system.

AMBASSADOR – Fathers & Men

ADHD LIBERTY EUROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE

ADHD & FATHERHOOD CAMPAIGNER

ADHD & MASCULINITY ADVOCATE

EXECUTIVE & CORPORATE ADHD COACH

Throughout his career, Tom has worked at the intersection of gender, care, responsibility and social systems, spanning policy, research, practice and public engagement.

He was part of the founding team of the UK Fatherhood Institute and contributed to the successful introduction of statutory Paternity Leave in the UK, helping to shift how care, work and responsibility are understood for men and families.

His work has focused on how institutions, workplaces and cultures shape behaviour, inclusion and exclusion, particularly for people whose ways of thinking, feeling or relating do not fit dominant norms.

He has supported organisations in the public, corporate and community sectors to adopt more humane, inclusive approaches to neurodivergent adults, parents and carers.

Tom is a strong advocate for ADHD being recognised and understood as a valid neurodevelopmental difference, not dismissed, moralised or misinterpreted.

He supports efforts to increase awareness, improve access to screening and understanding and challenge systems that too often respond to neurodivergent behaviour with punishment, exclusion or criminalisation rather than support.

He lives in Barcelona, where he combines his professional work with a creative practice in street, performance, and portrait photography, exploring attention, presence and human experience through visual storytelling.

AMBASSADOR – Homelessness 

ADHD & AUTISM EXPERT TRAINER & SPEAKER

NEURODIVERSITY DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ADVISER & TRAINER

ADHD & HOMELESSNESS EXPERT

SCHOOL REFORM ADVOCATE

Alexandra is a coach, therapist and consultant specialising in neurodiversity, late diagnosis, employment matters, advocacy, staff management and leadership.

Following a late ADHD diagnosis, having been misdiagnosed until 37, Alexandra has since dedicated her life and career to raising awareness, changing the misinformation and supporting and advocating for Neurodivergent minds.

With a long and exciting career in Leadership spanning the housing, health, social care and criminal justice sectors, Alexandra brings a wealth of experience and expertise.

As an autistic and ADHD woman, Alexandra is proud to embrace and celebrate neurodiversity in all its forms. Drawing on her own experiences, Alexandra brings a unique perspective to her work, providing insight and knowledge to help individuals and organisations navigate and understand how to champion Neurodiversity in the workplace.

Through her work within the criminal justice system, Alexandra has seen firsthand the impact of misdiagnosis and the correlation between misdiagnosis and adolescents and young adults falling into the criminal justice system.

She has seen the appalling ways in which Neurodivergent individuals are so often treated and let down. These experiences have ignited her passion for challenging and changing the system which fails so many.

Alexandra is also a proud Mother to an incredible Autistic ADHD son, who continues to inspire her passion for promoting neurodiversity and supporting those who are neurodivergent.

Through her personal experiences, Alexandra understands the challenges and rewards of raising a neurodivergent child. But also the frustrations parents face navigating education systems. She is deeply committed to creating a more inclusive and supportive world for all individuals, regardless of their neurotype.

Alexandra is dedicated to making a positive impact on the world through her work in neurodiversity, as well as providing advocacy for neurodivergent individuals and their families.

With her wealth of experience and expertise, Alexandra is a true ally for those seeking to create positive change and promote greater understanding and acceptance of neurodiversity.

AMBASSADOR – Youth Justice & Education

SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE LIVED EXPERIENCE SPEAKER

ADHD & NEURODIVERSITY IN THE CIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

TRAUMA, REFORM & REHABILITATION

JUSTICE & EDUCATION

David didn’t receive his ADHD diagnosis until his was 41 years old.  Unfortunately for David, that was after already spending most of his life trapped in the ‘revolving doors’ of crisis and crime but being diagnosed was not quite the end of his journey through the criminal justice system.

Drugs and alcohol – self-medication – ran parallel through David’s life, with many failed relationships and ruined employment littering his past, as were many missed opportunities. Missed, as David puts it “because people were too quick to label me as ‘challenging and disruptive,’ but no one intervened, no one asked why?”  

First arrested in 1980, at the age of ten, with plenty of evidence that David had had a messy childhood, he didn’t break free from the criminal justice system until April 29, 2019, when he successfully completed his final ever licence from prison. 

Since then, not only has David stayed totally away from criminality, but he now uses his lived experience to educate others and campaign for much needed changes to the criminal justice system. 

He is also passionate about the education system, because being excluded from school at the age of fourteen and sent to custody for the first time aged fifteen, David is fully aware of the devastating impact of the school-to-prison pipeline. 

In 2017, the last time he was incarcerated, the prison population stood at 85,975, and at the time the Institute of Public Policy estimated that 54,164 of those had been excluded from school, and into the pipeline they went. A pipeline full of children with undiagnosed neurodiverse conditions. 

David is also a member of the Revolving Doors neurodiversity lived experience team.   He has spoken and presented at many prestigious venues, including the House of Commons, the House of Lords, Cambridge University, Edinburgh Napier University to name a few, and was on a panel with ADHD Liberty CEO Sarah Templeton at the Dyslexia Show held at the NEC in Birmingham. A panel chaired by Matt Hancock MP. 

In November 2023, David was awarded with a St. Martins Challenge Award for his work around criminal justice reform and for his work with Revolving Doors.

Having volunteered and trained as a ‘Listener’ during his time in prison, along with his own experience of suicidality in prison, David is also passionate about suicide prevention and is a lived experience team member at the Samaritans, and a lived experience influencer at the National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA).   

David says that the best education he received in prison was gaining the knowledge of who he was along with the understanding of who he could be. The rest is history, a history David is happy to share.

AMBASSADOR – Teenagers in Trouble 

ACE CHILDHOOD SURVIVOR KEYNOTE SPEAKER

TROUBLED ADHD TEEN LIVED-EXPERIENCE

ADDICTION & ADHD SPEAKER

TRAUMA & THE ADHD BRAIN SPECIALIST

Sean’s father passed away when he was a young infant leaving a stressed, abusive and alcoholic mother to raise three young children without any support. Shortly after, they were signed over to Social Services. Along with many other struggles in childhood, Sean scored a 9/10 on the Adverse Childhood Experiences test which he now realises affected the development of his brain growing up.

Without any support or guidance, his school years were very chaotic. Even though he was a smart kid, he was very disruptive and was constantly removed from class for bad behaviour. He would often become overwhelmed and upset and ask himself time and time again, ‘What’s wrong with me?’ a common question asked by people with ADHD.

Sean’s teenage years led to a lot of risk taking and thrill seeking, getting involved with drink and drugs and continuously in trouble with the police.

When Sean left school, he first worked with young people as a Youth Worker in the evenings. During the day he was studying at college to become a Nursery Teacher, and that’s when he developed a real interest in psychology and how the mind works.

Sean became the first male Nursery Teacher in the UK and proved how important it was to have positive male role models in children’s nurseries, especially for young boys.

Throughout Sean’s eclectic career, he has continued to learn and grow moving from one industry to another. He has been a DJ, owned nightclubs in the UK and overseas, worked in the city as the CEO of an award-winning company and has been featured in Forbes magazine as a Tech Entrepreneur.

Sean finally got back into studying and training in psychology in his 40’s to become an ADHD therapist, coach and brain health professional, helping people of all ages, backgrounds and genders.

This is when Sean took a deep dive into learning everything about neurodivergence and in particular, the ADHD brain. He studied and trained with the world’s leading ADHD doctors and experts and has recently completed a neuroscience course at Cambridge University in his 50’s to understand every aspect of how ADHD brains work – demonstrating it is never too late to improve your life. Especially when his school headmaster told Sean ‘education is not for you!’

Sean knows first-hand the challenges of living with undiagnosed ADHD from childhood through to his adult life. As the father of three children, Sean has a son diagnosed with ADHD along with other family members who are neurodiverse with issues such as depression, anxiety and OCD.

Sean knows that people with ADHD are in good company. Many of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world are neurodivergent. He firmly believes their success is based on them embracing their unique brain.

Having dealt with addiction when self-medicating his undiagnosed ADHD in the past, Sean is now a Coach specialising in addiction.

He is now passionate about helping anybody who has gone down the wrong path, to find their way back. He believes that with the right understanding, self-compassion, self-awareness and support there really is no obstacle anyone cannot overcome.

AMBASSADOR – Schools 

FAILED SCHOOL CHILDREN SPEAKER

ADHD CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN SCHOOL EXPERT

ADHD PARENTS ADVOCATE

EDUCATION REFORM SPEAKER

Michelle is a mum to three sons and one daughter, and has spent much of the last 20 years fighting what she sees as a desperately failing educational system.

Michelle herself struggled at school and was decades away from her own ADHD diagnosis as absolutely nobody recognised her own undiagnosed dyslexia, nor combined ADHD.  She was finally diagnosed ADHD at the age of 44.

She was determined her children wouldn’t have to suffer the way she has and fought very hard for recognition of their difficulties from infant school onwards. She was absolutely sure each of them had educational learning challenges but was given literally no help – in fact quite the opposite. Her own parenting was called into question purely because she asked so many questions trying to get answers for her children. She became the target for teachers and schools passing the buck.

Nothing would put Michelle off though, and it wasn’t until each of her children were in their final year at school, that they received their ADHD, ASD and dyslexia diagnosis’ between them.

Michelle has made sure that her children feel empowered and can achieve anything they want in the world, whether their issues have been identified and diagnosed or not.

Her second son discovered a flare for cooking in his mid-teens, and despite being seen by the school as likely to fail at anything he tried, he secured a place at a highly prestigious catering college where he is loving every minute.

Michelle is passionate about all ADHD children and determined to change our current antiquated education system, which doesn’t cater for those with neurodiverse minds. She wants ADHD, ASD and all the comorbidities screening for in schools from the age of five so the correct support can be put in place as early as possible.

AMBASSADOR – ADHD & Addiction

ADHD PSYCHIATRIST

ADDICTION SPECIALIST PSYCHIATRIST

PRISON MENTAL HEALTH REFORM ADVOCATE

Khaled has over twenty years’ experience as a Psychiatrist working with mental health disorders including Adult ADHD and addiction.

Not only is Khaled diagnosed with ADHD himself, he also has many family members and friends diagnosed with ADHD. So he knows about ADHD both from his professional and personal experiences.

Khaled is particularly passionate about helping people who have addiction problems alongside ADHD. 

Khaled completed his medical training in 1998 with an MSc and MD in Psychiatry followed by Substance Misuse in 2009. He joined The Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2013.

His medical practice has included time spent as Medical Director for inpatient and community services for mental health and drug misuse disorders.

Khaled has been extensively involved in delivering presentations, lectures and training courses to healthcare professionals both nationally and internationally. He has also published widely about substance misuse and mental health research. His particular interest is in the Dual Diagnosis of mental health disorders and substance misuse disorders – in particular Adult ADHD and substance misuse.

Khaled also shares our frustration about the amount of undiagnosed ADHD people languishing in prison because their undiagnosed ADHD has led to addiction, criminal behaviour to support the addiction and ultimately incarceration. He is passionate about raising awareness on this unnecessary punishment of people for whom the correct ADHD diagnosis and medication could have meant a very different crime-free life.

AMBASSADOR – Families and Children 

QUALIFIED & REGISTERED INDEPENDENT SOCIAL WORKER

ADHD & ASD COURT EXPERT

MENTAL CAPACITY ASSESSOR

PRE-COURT REPORT ADVISER

WITNESS COURT SUPPORT

Jo is a vastly experienced Social Worker of 25+ years working with both children and adults.  She specialises in children who have been fostered or adopted, care leavers and issues of employment and education.  She frequently works with families who have often multiple and complex problems connected with ADHD – most of it undiagnosed and usually leading to families leading chaotic lifestyles involving addiction and offending behaviour.

Jo was late ADHD diagnosed herself, aged 51 around the same time as one of her two sons.  Following this Jo began to increasingly realise how often ADHD featured in families where children are already in care or are at risk of going into care.

Jo also knows how often ‘looked after’ young people can find themselves stuck in the revolving door of PRU’s, Young Offender Institutes and prisons and only since her own diagnosis has she realised how many of these young people have ADHD.

This has led Jo to become hugely passionate about advocating for increased understanding and support for those already in the criminal system.   And those at risk of offending.

She is also driven to work on preventing other young people experiencing similar issues which are often caused by a combination of untreated ADHD and addiction.

AMBASSADOR – Youth Crime & County Lines

COUNTY LINES & CHILD EXPLOITATION SPEAKER

TEENS IN TROUBLE SPEAKER & ADVOCATE 

PARENT ADHD ADVOCATE 

MUM MENTOR 

Alison is married with three grown-up children and has been advocating for ADHD since 2007 when her youngest son was diagnosed ADHD aged 8. 

Despite fighting for change in the school system, and removing him from two schools that failed to meet his needs, he was finally excluded from school and fell into the School-to -Prison Pipeline. 

With Alison’s tag line being “But we are just a nice normal family” it was a huge shock to learn that her son had been groomed into County Lines drug dealing, with threats to the whole family, some scary and horrific. 

For several years, Alison shared her story anonymously as a Lived Experience Parent, working with national charities to raise awareness for parents, and was involved in Government Reviews into Child Criminal Exploitation. 

What began as a mother fighting for her child soon became a mission. Alison found herself battling failing systems – education, social care, prison and probation – all of which seemed to misunderstand or overlook the reality of living with ADHD.

Now. despite the fear of reprisal, Alison is using her voice publicly to advocate for change and continues to fight against the unsupportive policies and procedures currently in place for those with neurodivergence in schools that so easily end up with ADHD kids in prison. 

While Alison has never been formally assessed, it’s strongly suspected she has ADHD herself – something that helped make sense of a lot, in hindsight! 

Her work now centres around helping others understand the deep, often invisible impact ADHD has on everyday life, not just for those with a diagnosis, but for their families too.

Alongside her advocacy, Alison runs her own business balancing the demands of entrepreneurship with her passion for helping others feel seen, heard, and supported

She’s now an outspoken ADHD advocate, determined to raise awareness and push for real change.

AMBASSADOR – Children & Justice

ADHD & EARLY IDENTIFICATION ADVOCATE

YOUTH ADHD AWARENESS CAMPAIGNER

CRIMINAL JUSTICE LIVED EXPERIENCE

Paul is currently going through the process of being diagnosed with ADHD, while also supporting his son through his own assessment journey. That experience became deeply personal after reading Sarah Templeton’s book, How Not to Murder Your ADHD Kid, which helped him spot many smaller ADHD traits and indicators in himself that he had never recognised before, even at 40 years old.

It was a powerful moment. What had once felt like isolated traits started to form a clearer picture, and with that came a strong sense of purpose around helping other young people and families reach that understanding much earlier.

Paul previously spent 10 years serving the community in various frontline police roles as a Special Constable, where he saw the effect that undiagnosed and untreated ADHD can have when people are judged on behaviour, rather than understood properly.

Today, Paul is passionate about raising awareness of ADHD in young people, encouraging earlier identification, and helping others understand how much can change when the signs are spotted sooner.