Great Minds Don’t Think Alike…
All Minds Think Best Open.
Coaching neurodiversity opens minds to the possibilities + Unlocks the creative potential within everyone.
Mindset
Skillset
Habits
Yellow Parachute Has Been Coaching to
Open Minds Since 1999
From 1999-2024
Our Work + Experience
For 25 years, Yellow Parachute has offered supplementary tutoring and coaching services to help our clients fill educational gaps. Together, we have experienced:
- The K-12+ Education System’s challenge to meet all learners’ needs.
- Student’s frustration when they don’t fit the classroom mold.
- Teachers’ requests for training to support their neurodiverse students with ADHD and Executive Function Skills Deficits.
- Parents’ frustrations when they feel helpless getting support.
- Leaders’ balancing act in supporting students, parents, and teachers in getting what they need to be successful.
- Kids’ growing feelings of unworthiness as the cycle continues.
What We’ve Learned:
Great minds DON’T think alike. Partnering with parents and educators has given us the chance to create environments where individuals:
- Feel seen, heard, accepted, and supported
- Contribute their unique perspectives, potential, and creativity
- Actively engage with clarity and purpose to build confidence and independence
Our Mission:
To positively impact schools, businesses, and communities across the United States through the coaching and training of Executive Function and Leadership Skills.
We work with clients in 4 categories:
- Students
- Parents
- Teachers + Education Leaders
- Business Leaders + Teams
We guide students, parents, teachers, and education + business leaders through an actionable, practical coaching framework, using Executive Function and Leadership Skills at the core.
Together, we want to shift learning and working environments across the US, embracing neurodiversity to open each mind to its own creative possibilities for success and fulfillment!
Great Minds Don't Think Alike
Coaching Neurodiversity Unlocks Creativity
EF Skills are Essential Skills
For School, Career, and Mental Health
Growth Mindset + Work Ethic
#1 For Career Success
What We Do: Mindset, Skillset Habits for Positive Change!
Mindset
Skillset
Habits
Shine a Light on Mindset: Great Minds Think Best Open
How do you talk to yourself when you mess up?
When faced with challenges like maintaining focus, punctuality, organization, handling criticism, prioritizing time, or learning from errors, what do you say to yourself? If your knee-jerk reaction is to say to yourself “You messed up again,” you are not alone.
Research has shown that children with ADHD have often received 20,000 more negative messages about their behavior than a neurotypical child by age 12. Think about the toll this takes on mindset; the implications can be devastating.
Using an Executive Function Skills Lens (TM) can stop negative thoughts and limiting mindsets, clear up miscommunication, and create compassion and accountability in homes, schools, and businesses!
Build a Powerful Skillset
Build a Powerful Skillset
What are your unique strengths and challenges?
You may already have a sense for what you do well and what you don’t. A closer look offers important insight into how to use your areas of strength to manage motivation and productivity in areas that challenge you. Even more importantly, it offers you a way to talk about what you do well and what you don’t, so you can ask for help to get what you need.
Developing an Executive Function Skills Lens (TM) will help you set goals and practice consistent steps to achieve them. Like the body gets stronger with consistent exercise, the brain gets stronger with repeated practice. You never regret a workout; you can bring your mind to the gym too.
Build Habits to Do What matters Most
Success Requires Maintenance
You are basking in positive change, when all of a sudden you take 4 steps back. Rather than write yourself off as failure and continue the self-sabotage, there are concrete things you can do to turn the setback into healthy learning.
Notice we didn’t say “find the silver lining;” that’s not what this is about. Learn how to gather data about your experiences to get closer to the person you want to be, in every aspect of your life.
Hear From Our Clients –
We have struggled for a long time and tried MANY different approaches. After talking with you today, I feel like we are finally in the right place. I feel hopeful.
– Parent
I am realizing for the first time that there are folks out there who have similar struggles and patterns to me. I had never thought of that before.
– Student
I now see that many of our communication barriers can be traced to executive function skills. I see a new way to support and empower my team.
– Leader
25 Years of
Changing Mindsets.
Overcoming Obstacles.
Building Confidence. Strengthening Relationships.
Teaching HOW to learn not just WHAT to learn!
Last week our son’s karate instructor took us aside to share the incredible growth he has seen in our son over the past six months. We are so happy for the confidence, self-control, and responsibility he is building. It shows in his mood and interactions with us.
– Parents – Quantum JUMP ADHD Coaching
