Linda believes that individuals and families struggling with the challenges of ADHD have the potential to become happier, less stressed, and healthier.
As a coach, Linda works with each client to understand their biggest challenges as well as their strengths and passions. Each ADHD brain has unique wiring. She first helps her clients understand this wiring, then teaches them to work with ADHD—not against it.
Linda also works with family members to help them better understand their loved one's challenges.
Business Name:
The Joy of Getting Things Done
Coaching Focus:
Adult Organization/Time Management RelationshipsLanguages
EnglishMethod of Coaching:
Telephone, Video Conferencing, In-PersonClient Testimonial
“For a couple with one ADHDer, Linda is a godsend. For years we have struggled with the impacts of ADHD on our relationship without realizing it. Linda helped us to identify the root cause of our challenges, create empathy for the experiences of both partners, and employ actionable strategies to address the core issues. While this is important in all relationships, it is mission critical when children are in the mix, as any parent will understand. Thank you Linda so much for your wisdom and guidance to get us to the happy place we are today!”
~ Ben & Krissy Kuhlmann, Burlington, VT
Linda King is a former educator, former parenting educator (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting), and current ADHD coach with over 9 years of ADHD coaching experience. She has over 475 hours of coach training, including family-specific ADHD coach training. She holds advanced certifications in both ADHD coaching and life coaching. She is a graduate of the ADD Coach Academy, a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, a Professional Certified ADHD Coach with PAAC, and a professional member of CHADD.
While pursuing her bachelor’s degree from Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Linda interned for the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood TV show. After graduation, Linda went on to teach elementary school in Pittsburgh Public Schools, while taking psychology classes at the University of Pittsburgh in the evenings.
She began to develop her coaching techniques at this time, successfully applying them to her teaching and motivating her students to succeed.
Linda left teaching to pursue a career in television, but a computer science class at Pitt took her in a different direction. She went on to earn a second bachelor’s degree — this time in Computer Science — from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in Computer Science from New York University.
Linda was hired by AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. It was while working in the Digital System Research division at Bell Labs that she created her first coaching group, helping fellow employees perform more effectively on the job.
Linda later joined a small software company in New Jersey, where she served as a software project leader and managed a team of developers. She gained international experience by working on and traveling to projects in Japan and England.
After the birth of her first child, Linda left the corporate world to enjoy that all-important quality of life. She eventually developed her own consulting business for the real estate industry where she helped agents join the computer generation and produced a real estate software product used by the largest real estate boards in Massachusetts.
As a homeschooling mom, Linda fine-tuned her coaching skills, teaching her children how to use time effectively and also helping others within her homeschooling community. She worked briefly as a professional organizer, but friends encouraged her to use her skills to do ADHD coaching.
Realizing that coaching was both a calling and a passion, Linda opened her formal coaching practice in early 2010. The enthusiastic feedback she receives from her clients tells her that she’s definitely fulfilling her purpose in life.
Linda currently resides in the Boston area with her husband. They are the proud parents of two successfully-launched adult children.
