Executive Function is Responsible for Many Skills, Including: 

• Paying attention
• Organizing, planning, and prioritizing
• Starting and finishing the assigned tasks
• Understanding different points of view
• Regulating emotions
• Self-monitoring (keeping track of what you’re doing)

Executive Function skills are what we can call self-management abilities that help people achieve goals. In order to effectively and timely meet the challenges of ever-increasing school, work, and life demands, people must be able to manage their emotions and attention, organize, plan, and critique their work, and time and revise their strategies as circumstances change. 

The goal of executive function coaching is to teach students these skills, develop them effectively, and apply them well beyond the current challenges they face. Executive functioning coaches will use real-life situations from school or at work as vehicles to build these Executive Function skills.

Themba Tutors works with adults who are struggling to manage daily life demands due to ADHD, diagnosed executive function deficits, or other learning differences. We also coach plenty of adults who did not receive a formal diagnosis. For many of these individuals, struggles with executive functioning often lead to frustration and feeling discouraged. This is especially true when their challenges are perceived as laziness. 

Themba Tutors works with college students, professionals, and individuals of all ages. including children in elementary, middle school, and high school.

Most of the clients we work with are very bright but haven’t been taught the tools and strategies required to achieve success. Our coaches provide the encouragement, strategies, and insight they need to become more effective and more confident in work, life, and school.

Our Coaches and Tutors Can Help Overcome These Challenges:

• Have trouble starting and/or completing tasks
• Have difficulty prioritizing tasks
• Forget what they just heard or read
• Have trouble following directions or a sequence of steps given to them
• Panic when rules or routines change
• Have trouble changing and shifting focus from one task to another
• Get overly emotional and fixate on things
• Have trouble organizing their thoughts into words and ideas
• Have trouble keeping track of their belongings
• Have trouble managing their time

Clients themselves are not the only ones getting the benefits of coaching. Partners and family members often tell us that household friction is reduced with coaching in place. Teachers also report positive shifts in students who receive our coaching service.