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Marla Cummins

ADD Coach, Consultant and Educator

Guiding and Supporting Adults and College Students with ADD to Reach their Goals

Are your frustrated because you know that you are not reaching your potential?
And you think that your ADD symptoms are getting in your way?
Then know that there is support to help you minimize your challenges and capitalize on your strengths to reach your goals.

I am fiercely committed to guiding adults and college students with ADD to implement successful, proven ways of minimizing the challenges of ADD while accentuating your strengths so that you can achieve your goals and dreams.

If you are looking for a proven professional to help you optimize your ability to follow through and complete your most important activities and streamline your personal and professional tasks, you have come to the right place.

With over 17 years of experience helping people achieve incredible success, I will help you adopt the skills and confidence you need to be successful.

Here is what clients have to say...

My clients come from a variety of backgrounds, including entrepreneurs, professionals, academics and college students. They credit my strategic coaching, creative problem solving, keen insight, uncanny ability to envision alternative paths and compassion for the progress they continue to make in their personal and professional life.

Here are a few of the remarkable things clients say about the impact my work has on their life.

After only a few calls she seemed to have me figured out pretty well.
She called me on empty promises, pushed me just enough never too much, and together we came up with tools that actually work and which I actually use. She has an uncanny ability to know how far she can push me without ticking me off. Thanks to that I never felt pressure to lie about or excuse what I had done or how I was doing.
After living with ADD for many years I started believing that I was lazy, stupid, and crazy. Marla was able to convince me that I was none of these by helping me solve small issues and get a track record of success. Once those things were accomplished, many of the pieces sort of fell in to place. Marc D., software engineer

• More important than problems solved is my greater confidence in addressing problems and trying to solve them, rather than simply quitting because no resolution is apparent.
She has helped me see what appear to be insurmountable problems as just small impediments. Josh D., writer
• ...Marla's work is not superficial- it is not just finding the quick and easy solution but how I can do things differently in my life so I won’t have this problem down the road. I could not recommend working with Marla more or place such a high value on her effect on my life at college. Josh L., college student

• Marla is a time management guru, to be sure, but her most unique skill is her ability to ask questions that help me to step outside of myself for a moment and take a hard look at my motivations and decision making processes. Her questions have helped me to become more independently active in that I now know how to ask myself the kinds of questions that Marla might ask me. Without Marla's help, I probably would not be as far along in my job search as I am now and would still be far from finishing my degree. Thanks, Marla! Paul D, high school teacher

Similar benefits await you when you decide to invite me to work with you.
Most Powerful Tips
What energizes me about this work is knowing that through my collaborative work with my clients they are ready, as you can see by their comments, to reach their goals.
Here are some of the tips I offer:
• Be sure that your goals and values are aligned.
• Take the time to discover what helps you to operate at your best.
• Create an environment that will utilizes your strengths and minimize your challenges.
• Be willing to accept help when needed.
• Always, always use a tool to track your tasks and activities, rather than relying on your memory.
• Create a weekly and daily habit of planning.

Not sure how to accomplish the above? I can help... and I will do so with compassion; I will always being mindful and respectful of your capacity, never pushing you beyond where you want to and are ready to go.
Why You Can Have Confidence in me as your ADD Coach
Below are five things about me that might surprise and delight you - while serving our work together.
• As an adult with ADD myself, I have realized extraordinary success in my own life by using the same strategies and tactics that help my clients to thrive. I understand the challenges my clients are going through from a personal, as well as professional level. This understanding allows me to help my clients to greater success in their life.

• I always wanted to live closer to my family. About 9 years ago, I gave up a tenured position teaching high school, sold my house and moved with my daughter to Boston. After arriving in Boston, without a job, I secured a position in the training department for a premier software company and subsequently worked at a leading university providing academic support to students.

• I am never one to shy away from taking calculated risks, and have taken many in my life. Being the sole wage earner in my family, I never thought it was possible to achieve my lifelong dream of having my own business. I was wrong... I finally took the leap and launched my now flourishing coaching and training company, Cummins Coaching and Training.

• My varied career and life path provides me with a breadth of experience that benefits my clients.

• And, yes, I even wrote the book, SMART Goals with the ADD Brain in Mind: An Interactive Approach to Moving BEYOND Stuck, Procrastination and Overwhelmed. It is based on proven strategies I have used in my own life and with clients.

Education and Professional Affiliations
In order to help my clients to the best of my ability, I am dedicated to my own professional growth as a Certified Coach, specializing in AD/HD Coaching. Toward this end, I completed the following training:

Core Co-Active Coaching and Certification programs, through The Coaches Training Institute, which is accredited through the International Coach Federation
Coaching Students with AD/HD: Levels I and II at Landmark College
Coaching Teens & College Students with ADHD through the Edge Foundation.

I continue to develop professionally my through her affiliations with:

• Attention Deficit Disorder Association ( ADDA)
• Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD )
• ADHD Coaches Organization (ACO)
• Institute for the Advancement of AD/HD Coaching (IAAC)
• International Coach Federation (ICF)
I have a B.A in economics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where I graduated with honors and Phi Beta Kappa, and a M.S. is in Experiential Education and Leadership from the University of Minnesota-Mankato.
Want to Learn More
Start by signing up to receive a complimentary copy of SMART Goals with the ADD Brain in Mind: An Interactive Approach to Moving BEYOND Stuck, Procrastination and Overwhelmed. You will learn more about the strategies that have helped my clients achieve success.
If you are considering hiring an ADD Coach, and would like more information, contact me for a complimentary Strategy Session.