Leanne Gawley
CPA, MBA
AB, CAEvery person in the room walks away with something real. Neurodivergent attendees finally find language for experiences they couldn't name. Neurotypical leaders gain the tools and perspective to build environments where their most capable people can stop holding back and start doing their best work.
Leanne Gawley spent two decades in finance leadership before realizing the systems she was helping build weren't built for people like her. Or, frankly, for most of the people doing the actual work.
As the former Country CFO at a global Oil and Gas company and a late-diagnosed ADHDer, Leanne brings something rare to every stage she walks onto: the credibility of someone who has sat in the room where decisions get made, and the lived experience of someone who has fought to belong in it. Her work sits at the intersection of neurodiversity, women in leadership, and the imposter phenomenon, not as separate topics, but as the overlapping realities of talented people who are routinely underestimated by the environments they are in.
Leanne is an ICF Accredited Coach, holds an abundance of education and is a Canadian Certified Inclusion Professional (CCIP.D). Her audiences, virtually and in person, have provided top-rated feedback from organizations across Canada, the US and MENA regions. She is the founder of The ADHD Advantage, a coaching practice grounded in one central belief: brilliant minds don't need fixing. The systems around them do.
Audiences leave her sessions with practical tools, a clearer understanding of how their brains work, and a harder look at the structures that have been telling capable people they aren't enough.
She speaks because she needed someone to say what she says. She stays because it keeps helping people.
Leanne Gawley spent two decades in finance leadership before realizing the systems she was helping build weren't built for people like her. Or, frankly, for most of the people doing the actual work.
As the former Country CFO at a global Oil and Gas company and a late-diagnosed ADHDer, Leanne brings something rare to every stage she walks onto: the credibility of someone who has sat in the room where decisions get made, and the lived experience of someone who has fought to belong in it. Her work sits at the intersection of neurodiversity, women in leadership, and the imposter phenomenon, not as separate topics, but as the overlapping realities of talented people who are routinely underestimated by the environments they are in.
Leanne is an ICF Accredited Coach, holds an abundance of education and is a Canadian Certified Inclusion Professional (CCIP.D). Her audiences, virtually and in person, have provided top-rated feedback from organizations across Canada, the US and MENA regions. She is the founder of The ADHD Advantage, a coaching practice grounded in one central belief: brilliant minds don't need fixing. The systems around them do.
Audiences leave her sessions with practical tools, a clearer understanding of how their brains work, and a harder look at the structures that have been telling capable people they aren't enough.
She speaks because she needed someone to say what she says. She stays because it keeps helping people.
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