Speaking and consultancy
Navigate your organisation
with WayPower,
not just willpower
Kaye Heyes brings neurodivergent-affirming insight to your team, grounding your people in neuroscience, lived experience, and the WayPower framework, so they can finally thrive at work rather than just survive it.
Previously spoken at:
WayPower, not
Willpower
Most workplace neurodiversity training tells people to try harder, be more organised, use better systems. The WayPower approach asks a different question: how can we design work and leadership that works with neurodivergent brains — not against them? Kaye's sessions reframe the conversation entirely.
What is WayPower?
If you’re ADHD, AuDHD, highly sensitive or simply feeling stretched by trying to do life the hard way, my 1:1 coaching offers a thoughtful, compassionate space to understand yourself more deeply and find practical ways forward that work in your real life.
This is about you moving away from the hard work of willpower and into the ease of WayPower: a more aligned, embodied and sustainable way of living and working.
Speaking topics
All talks are bespoke and can be
tailored to your audience
Drawing on neuroscience, positive psychology, polyvagal theory, and Focusing, Kaye delivers sessions that move people, not just inform them. Every talk is customised to your sector, your people and your goals.
The Neurodivergent Workplace: From Surviving to Thriving
What does a truly neurodivergent-affirming team culture look and feel like? This session explores executive function, sensory experience, emotional regulation, and nervous system safety — giving leaders and HR teams the understanding to make genuine, lasting change rather than tick-box adjustments.
Keynote
Workshop
All sectors
Time Beyond
"Bad at Time"
The most-requested topic. This session completely reframes how we understand time, moving beyond the myth of poor time management to explore time blindness, interest-based motivation, and Kairos vs. Chronos time. Teams leave with a new vocabulary for supporting neurodivergent colleagues, and neurodivergent attendees often describe it as profoundly validating.
Keynote
Workshop
All sectors
Burnout, Masking & the Cost of Willpower
Why do so many talented neurodivergent people burn out, again and again? This talk explores the hidden labour of masking, the exhaustion of executive function demands, and the conditions organisations need to create for sustainable high performance. A critical session for managers, HR and senior leaders.
Keynote
Workshop
All sectors
Strengths-Based ADHD: Harnessing Neurodivergent Talent
Grounded in VIA Character Strengths and positive psychology, this session shifts the focus from deficits to gifts — curiosity, creativity, hyper-focus, divergent thinking. Ideal for team days, manager training, or Neurodiversity Celebration Week, it leaves every attendee with an expanded view of human potential.
Keynote
Workshop
All sectors
The Nervous System at Work: Regulation, Safety & Performance
Rooted in polyvagal theory, this session explores how nervous system states shape focus, connection and output. A transformative lens for understanding wellbeing at work — particularly relevant for sectors with high stress loads such as healthcare, social care, education and emergency services.
Keynote
Workshop
All sectors
Navigating Late Diagnosis: Support for Newly-Identified Adults
For organisations supporting employees newly diagnosed with ADHD or autism as adults. This compassionate session acknowledges the complex emotional journey of late diagnosis and equips both individuals and their managers with language, tools, and a new way forward.
Keynote
Workshop
All sectors
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The WayPower framework
A whole new way to understand neurodivergent experience
The WayPower framework uses the metaphor of a sailboat navigating open water — giving teams a shared, embodied language for understanding ADHD, executive function, time, emotions, energy, and identity. It's far more memorable than a slide deck of bullet points.
1. Community
Your convoy
Discover people, places and practices that offer you steadiness, support and a sense of belonging.
2. Safety, connection & belonging
Your hull
Your sense of safeness, identity and belonging: the part of you that holds everything together.
3. Sensory Experience
Your Prow
How you meet the world through your senses, from light and sound to texture, movement and people: understand your triggers and your soothers.
4. Nervous System
Your Buoyancy
Your capacity to stay afloat, recover after dips, and move back towards regulation and steadiness.
5. Meaning, Values & Purpose
Your Sails
Knowing your values, your curiosity and your deeper why give you direction, energy and momentum
6. Self-Worth, Confidence & Self-Esteem
Your Deck
The strength and foundation beneath how you can show up authentically, take up space and trust yourself in the world.
7. Executive Functioning
Your Crew
Understanding how to plan, prioritise, organise, remember and respond to what life asks of you.
8. The currents and tides of time
The sea
With WayPower Time you can intentially choose and transition between different kinds of time. You'll be able to honour all your responsibilities as well as your energy, capacity and personal rhythms.
9. Emotions
The weather
A more nuanced understanding of your emotional world means you can listen to your needs, harness your energy and take the next right step.
10. Your true north
Your helm & inner compass
Your embodied inner guidance to make more aligned choices with what feels true, right and possible for you, so you can gently course correct.
11. Maintenance, rest and repair
Dry docking
Rest, repair and recovery are not a reward after the to do list, they’re an essential part of a sustainable way of living and working.
12. Creativity and playfulness
The blue sky
Your imagination, play, possibility and creative potential can be the first thing overwhelm depletes, and yet is the most joyful route out of anxiety and burnout.
From a single keynote to long-term partnership
Every engagement is shaped around your organisation's goals, culture, and audience. Sessions work in-person, hybrid, or online. Here are the most common formats — all are customisable.
Keynote
An engaging, story-driven talk to open or close your event, shift perspectives and spark conversation. Kaye weaves science, lived experience and the WayPower framework into a talk your audience will still be discussing weeks later.
30–60 minutes · In-person or virtual
Workshop
Interactive, practical, and deeply engaging. Workshops give teams time to explore, reflect, and apply the learning together. Designed to be neurodivergent-friendly from the inside out — varied pacing, creative practices, and real conversation.
90 min – half day · In-person or online
Training Series
A sequence of sessions for teams or managers — building shared language, deepening understanding, and embedding genuine culture change. Ideal for organisations committed to being a truly neurodivergent-affirming workplace.
3–6 sessions · Blended delivery
Consultancy
Strategic advisory work for organisations wanting to embed genuine neurodivergent inclusion. Kaye works with HR teams, DEI leads and senior leaders to review practice, design policy, and build the conditions for neurodivergent talent to flourish.
Half day audit to long-term partnership
Panel & Facilitation
Kaye is an experienced panel contributor and facilitator — bringing warmth, depth and neurodivergent perspective to events, awareness days, and team discussions. Available for Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Mental Health Awareness events and beyond.
Flexible · In-person or virtual
1:1 Executive Coaching
For neurodivergent leaders and managers navigating the challenges of leadership with an ADHD or autistic brain. WayPower coaching blends neuroscience, somatic awareness and strengths-based practice to help leaders lead sustainably, authentically and well.
Packages from 3 months
Who I work with
Across corporate,
public sector and charity
Kaye has delivered sessions for a range of organisations — from global gaming companies to housing charities to academic research institutes. Wherever there are people, the WayPower approach translates.
Corporate & Tech
Including: Ubisoft
Further Education
Including: Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), John Innes Centre
Charity & Social Care
Including: St Mungo's
Communities
Including: ADHD UK self-care groups, coaching communities
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About Kaye
Grounded in science, experience
and genuine lived understanding
Kaye Heyes is an ADHD coach, coach supervisor-in-training, and Focusing practitioner based in Deal, Kent. She created the WayPower framework after years of navigating burnout, late diagnosis, and the gap between neurotypical advice and neurodivergent reality.
Before moving fully into coaching, Kaye held senior leadership roles in higher education — including managing a busy university department — which gives her a grounded, practical understanding of the institutional pressures and dynamics your people face every day.
Her work sits at the intersection of neuroscience and soul. It's warmly human, rigourously grounded, and deeply practical.
Experienced, qualified, and deeply grounded in real-world practice
750+
hours of 1:1 coaching
100+
workshops delivered
Master's Degree in Positive Psychology & Coaching (distinction)
Specialist ADHD Coaching qualification
Coach Supervisor-in-training (BFA)
Focusing Practitioner-in-training (BFA member)
NLP Practitioner (ANLP member)
Polyvagal Theory & Nervous System Regulation
Former senior higher education professional
Kaye works in accordance with EMCC ethical guidelines, including best practice for workplace and stakeholder engagement.
Ready to bring WayPower to your organisation?
The best sessions begin with a conversation. Tell Kaye a little about your team, your goals, and what you're hoping people will feel and know differently after the session — and she'll come back with a bespoke proposal.
Common questions
Do you travel for in-person events?
Yes — Kaye is based in Deal, Kent and travels across the UK for in-person sessions. For events further afield, travel costs are discussed as part of the booking. Many sessions can also be delivered beautifully online.
How far in advance do I need to book?
Popular dates can fill several months in advance, especially around Neurodiversity Celebration Week (March) and Mental Health Awareness Week (May). That said, it's always worth enquiring — sometimes earlier slots are available. Get in touch to check availability.
Can you tailor a session to our specific sector or audience?
Absolutely. Every session starts with a discovery conversation about your audience, your goals, and the cultural context. Kaye has delivered for corporate technology companies, housing charities, universities, and research institutes — each with a completely different feel and focus.
Do you work with organisations that have no neurodiversity strategy yet?
Yes — often these are the most impactful engagements. Kaye can help you start from scratch with a single awareness-raising session, or design a more comprehensive consultancy package to build the foundations of a genuinely neurodivergent-affirming culture.
What makes WayPower different from standard neurodiversity training?
Most neurodiversity training gives information. WayPower gives people a felt shift — a new way of understanding themselves and each other that doesn't just inform, but transforms. Rooted in neuroscience, somatic practice, positive psychology and genuine lived experience, it goes far beyond "here are some tips for your ADHD colleague."
Do you offer discounts for charities or smaller organisations?
Kaye believes this work should reach the organisations that need it most. Pricing is discussed individually, and there is flexibility for charities, community organisations and those with smaller budgets. Please do enquire — the conversation is always worth having.
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Why WayPower?
I set up Positively ADHD because I believe in a different way forward.
People with ADHD have so many gifts and incredible ways of thinking which can make a huge contribution to the world. Yet so much nuance is lost in the deficit-based, medical model which sees ADHD as a list of “symptoms” that need to be “treated”.
Many of us who were late-diagnosed or have self-diagnosed, have spent our whole lives in survival mode, because we did not know that our brains and nervous systems were different. We may have spent many years believing we were broken and have probably struggled with periods of depression, anxiety and burnout.
Whilst I don’t underestimate the difficulties that ADHD can cause, I also know that when we feel creative, hopeful, and connected to our purpose, anything is possible for us and our amazing minds.
