Carol Gignoux M.Ed.

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ADHD Coach, Author and Speaker Expert

Carol Gignoux Quick Facts

Main Areas: Corporate Training, Seminars, ADHD Coaching, ADHD Coach Training, Teleclasses
Career Focus: Author, Speaker, Business Owner, Life Coach

Carol Gignoux, M.Ed. is founder and President of ADDinsights, LLC, a Boston-based firm that provides coaching and training for adults and teens with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Carol’s passion is to provide services that transform the lives of people with ADHD.

Carol began her work with ADHD immediately upon her graduation from college in 1972, and has continued that work for the past 35 years. Carol specializes in working with both teens and adults, with or without an ADHD diagnosis, who want to see better results in their academic, professional and personal lives.

Carol has trained with Coach U, Inc. and is a certified graduate. She has also completed a graduate coaching program with the Newfield Network in Minneapolis, MN and an Executive Coach Training Program with Success Dynamics in Concord, MA. Carol has been certified by the ICF as one of their first Financial Coaches. She was also one of the first participants in the Top Human Coaching Program in Shanghai, China, has taken several of T. Harv Eker’s Peak Potentials Training Programs, and is a member of his Private Circle Club. Carol co-created the Institute for the Advancement of ADHD Coaching, the international organization that certifies ADHD Coaches and ADHD Training Programs. She has achieved the most advanced ADHD coaching designation: the Senior Certified ADHD Coach or SCAC.

Carol and her team of experts specialize in coaching adults, couples, small business owners, and entrepreneurs. Carol is currently writing her book, The Asset: Your Success Gene and the Myth of ADD. Please join Carol in her exceptional journey as she writes from the heart, chapter by chapter, her experiences and observations. She offers concrete tips and tools that “rAfters” can draw upon to change their ADD/ADHD from a deficit into an asset!

Carol feels that it has been her privilege to work with so many wonderful people of all ages, backgrounds, and creative powers who fit an ADHD profile. Her mission is to change the way people view the ADHD trait so that adults with ADHD at home and in the workplace are able to create environments for success, and children with ADHD can learn time and task management skills while they are still young.

Other Programs & Highlights

ADHD Coach Training Program

ADDinsights' unique ADHD coaching curriculum goes beyond managing the effects of ADHD. Our coaches are also trained to focus on the personal transformation of their clients. They learn to help their clients uncover and adjust the foundational, core problems preventing them from seeing themselves as confident and capable. With these core issues resolved the coach can focus on the client stepping into a whole new way of being that’s far bigger and more powerful than they could ever imagine.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Carol Gignoux

"The best way you can predict your future is to create it"
Stephen Covey

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself
to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader"
Paul J. Meyer

"Are you BORED with your life? Then THROW yourself into some work you BELIEVE in with all your heart, LIVE for it, DIE for it, and you will find HAPPINESS that you had thought could never be YOURS"
Dale Carnegie

"Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy"
Earl Nightingale

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active.Show up more often"
Brian Tracy

'It is always your next move"
Napoleon Hill

"If you truly want to make a big change, you've got to tolerate the "in-between" time.That's the period in which we let go of who we know ourselves to be in order to allow for the possibility of who we might become"
Katherine Woodward Thomas

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder"
William Joseph Slim

"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with or friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce"
Thich Nhat Hanh

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step"
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery"
James Joyce

"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way"
Dr. Seuss

"Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in something or someone outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it cmes from the way you think"
Wayne Dyer

"When you create something, you always create it first in thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioing pleasure, satisfaction, and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations and events which conform to our positive expectations"
Shakti Gawain

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them"
Kahlil Gibran

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."
Robert J. Collier

"Working hard overcomes a whole lot of obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, endearing characteristic of successful people"
Marsha Evans

"There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only, single individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts"
Steve Chandler

Getting Started With Carol Gignoux

Please visit www.addinsights.com for more information regarding Attention Deficit Disorder and ways in which I teach individuals to better manage their ADHD. I also work with organizations teaching managers, supervisors and employees how to better manage ADHD in the workplace.