About

My Story

I'm Mineela, and my career has now come full circle.

I started in leadership consulting out of university - a junior consultant at a firm specializing in executive coaching, training, and organizational development.

I was in boardrooms early, watching brilliant leaders struggle with invisible patterns no one had language for. I saw the gap between what leadership development promised and what actually moved the needle for high-performers whose brains worked differently.

So I went to get the missing piece: clinical training.

I became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and spent the next 25 years specializing in ADHD, trauma, depression, anxiety, and the neurological mechanisms that undermine executive function. I trained in solution-focused brief therapy and single-session interventions - precise, targeted work designed for immediate impact.

But I didn't stay in the therapy room.

Through Employee Assistance Programs, I built a hybrid practice that most therapists never see: clinical work embedded in corporate reality. Yes, I did brief therapeutic interventions. But I was also doing leadership development, team building, and - critically - I earned my way to the table where change management conversations were happening.

My mandate was simple: listen for where people needed support as organizations moved from one reality to another. Be present in the power dynamics. Understand what happens when executive function collapses under the weight of restructures, mergers, new leadership, and the thousand ways corporate change lands on human nervous systems.

I wasn't observing from outside. I was inside the system - where the consequences were directly tied to whether people could pay their bills, keep a roof overhead, put food on the table. Where performance wasn't abstract and where "just try harder" could mean losing everything.

Most therapists don't have this. They understand clinical mechanisms, but they've never sat in a change management meeting. They've never watched what happens when someone's ADHD brain has to navigate a reorganization while maintaining the performance that keeps their family fed. They don't speak the language of power dynamics, hierarchy, quarterly pressures, and organizational politics.

I do. Because I've lived in both worlds - not just visited them.

Now I'm back where I started, but with 25 years of clinical precision and corporate embeddedness behind me.

What I Bring

The full loop: I started in leadership consulting, spent 25 years mastering clinical intervention while staying embedded in corporate systems, and now translate that dual expertise into Fortune 50 leadership development.

Clinical precision meets organizational reality: Licensed MFT with specialized training in solution-focused brief therapy, single-session therapy, EMDR, and Brainspotting. But unlike most clinicians, I learned to apply this inside actual corporate contexts - L&D programs, team building, change management processes where people's livelihoods were on the line.

Change management experience: I've been at the table when organizations move from one reality to another. I know how to listen for where people need support during transitions, and I understand what executive function collapse looks like when the stakes are survival-level.

Power dynamics fluency: I work in systems soaked in hierarchy and power dynamics. I don't pretend everyone has equal agency or that "better boundaries" solves structural problems. I help leaders navigate the actual constraints they're operating within.

Brief intervention mastery: Twenty-five years of identifying the smallest change that creates the biggest difference. More is not better - better is better.

Speed-dial support model: I deliver targeted interventions, you implement, and you reach back out when you need precision support. Many of my clients stay with me until it makes sense to keep me on speed dial - returning intermittently when they hit specific challenges that need clinical-level intervention inside corporate realities.

No-bullshit frameworks: Plain language for what's actually happening in your nervous system. Assessment tools that map executive function without shame. Simple architecture for starts, priorities, delegation, and pace that survives quarter-ends, travel, restructures, and office politics.

Intersectional lens: I understand how multiple identities layer onto ADHD realities - race, gender, cultural expectations, socioeconomic background, immigration status.

• The "model minority" myth.
• The "strong Black woman" trope.
• The "professional woman who has it all together" mask.
• The pressure on men to perform flawlessly while never asking for help.

These aren't separate from ADHD; they're compounding factors that shape how executive function shows up and what's required to navigate organizational systems. That intersectional awareness shapes how I work.

Why I Do This

Because "do more with less" isn't a strategy - it's a slow bleed.

Because talented people shouldn't have to iron their humanity flat to look "executive."

Because power dynamics are real, and pretending ADHD is a level playing field is how good people get ground down.

Because research without translation is decoration, and leaders need tools, not posters.

Because I've sat at enough change management tables to know that organizational transitions don't fail because people lack motivation - they fail because no one accounts for what happens to executive function when the ground shifts beneath you and your mortgage depends on performing through it.

I'm here to give high-performing, high-responsibility ADHD leaders accurate language, a few levers that move the rest, and a cadence that holds when the heat is on.

Not perfect. Not pretty. Just useful.

What I'm Not

I'm not a motivational speaker. I don't do vision boards or "unleash your potential." I won't tell you to journal harder or that you just need better boundaries.

I don't create long-term coaching dependencies where we meet weekly to "check in." I work with leaders who already know what they should do. My job is identifying the precise intervention that addresses why their neurology won't let them - and delivering it in a way that works inside the actual power structures and constraints you're navigating.

You implement. You run. You reach back out when you need me.

Brief. Targeted. Co-created. Then it's yours.

Beyond the Work

I host ADHD Running in Heels, a podcast for women that explores what it actually takes to lead and live with an ADHD brain. I'm an avid seamstress - garment construction keeps me sharp on systems thinking and the satisfaction of precision work. I'm a voracious reader, particularly science fiction and fantasy (if you're not a Star Trek fan, I won't hold it against you - but I will quietly judge you). I hold a Master of Divinity and maintain deep interests in Christian mysticism, South Asian spirituality, and ancestral lineage work. I love stroopwaffles and key lime pie - standard offerings to be left at my front door. And, I toggle constantly between associative leaps and granular precision, which turns out to be exactly what this work requires.

Let's do some great work together!