ADHD/VA

ABOUT US

Barbara Luther, MA
Master Certified Coach
Specializing in ADHD
St. Louis, MO

 

Barbara began her coaching business, Wind Beneath Your Wings, in 1996, specializing in coaching clients impacted by ADHD.  Barbara specializes in coaching high achievers with ADHD traits who want to take even more of their creative endeavors to completion. 

 

She received her coach training at CoachU and Corporate CoachU and her ADHD coach training at the Optimal Functioning Institute.  She has earned the designations Professional Mentor Coach, Certified Teleclass Leader, and Advanced Certified Corporate Business Coach through CoachInc., and she has been a Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation (ICF) since 1999. 

 

Barbara is Director of Training at the ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA) and co-author of the 1,200+ pages of the ADDCA training curriculum.  She has overseen the successful ICF accreditation of ADDCA’s comprehensive training program, the only comprehensive ADHD coach training program with such a designation.

 

She speaks regularly at ADHD and coaching conferences and for various professional groups.  In 2008, Barbara spoke on “Leveraging Sweet Wisdom:  Helping Clients Learn About Their ADHD via Comic Strips” and was a co-presenter on “The Ladder to Success:  Leveraging an ADHD-Trained Virtual Assistant to Support Your Coaching Business” at the ADHD Coaches Association (ACO).  In 2011, Barbara has spoken on “Embracing Our Neurodiverse Minds as a Challenge to the Negative Perceptions and Prejudices Surrounding the ADHD Label” and “Success Strategies for the Creative Inattentives” at the ADHD Coaches Association and the ADD Coach Academy conferences.

 

Finally, Barbara is passionate about helping persons affected by ADHD to get the knowledgeable help they want and need, and she is painfully aware of how difficult it is to determine who is a qualified ADHD coach.  This is why she’s taken a leadership role in forming the Professional Association of AHDH Coaches (PAAC) and is committed to helping identify and certify demonstrably competent ADHD coaches.  She is also passionate about helping other service processionals such as virtual assistants to become ADHD-aware, appreciative, and usefully supportive.  And she continues to speak and develop training programs specifically to meet this need.

 

Jacki Opferman, CPS
Business Support Specialist

Jacki Opferman is the owner of JMO Administrative Services of Charlotte, NC. In addition to over 12 years of Executive Administrative Assistant/Office Manager experience, she also earned the Certified ADHD VA designation. She was inspired in part by her work with a non-profit organization for children with ADD/ADHD to work toward this certification. She has also obtained the Certified Social Media Marketing Specialist and Certified Shopping Cart Strategist.
 
The major strenghs of JMO are those of any top flight Virtual Assistant including all Microsoft Office programs, internet research, and calendar management. Jacki has a lot of patience and she has the skills to help keep you organized, efficient and focused.
 
On a personal note, Jacki has been married to her best friend Tom since 1977, and lived most of her life in Pittsburgh, PA. They moved to Pleasanton, CA to advance Tom’s career but have now been granted their heart’s desire: to relocate to Charlotte, NC where they have a new home and will happily be closer to friends and family on the east coast. Jacki has two grown children and loves to travel, garden and scrapbook.

 

 

For more information please email us at info@ADHDVA.com