Meet Danelle Fortune

"Besides the assistance Danelle provides my daughter, she is also a strong foundation for me, a parent who came to this with little understanding of what my ADHD child needs."

Danelle Fortune is passionate about helping students decide what success looks like in their lives and going after that success in partnership. Often the missing piece is direct instruction in executive function skills and Danelle has sought out advanced training to help students learn those skills and use them to move toward their goals.

Danelle was honored to complete “Coaching Teens & College Students with ADHD” with JST Coaching and Training, the premiere ADHD coach training organization in the world, and several life coaching classes through CTI, as well as Gretchen Wegner's "The Art of Inspiring Students to Study Strategically."

In addition to Danelle’s ADHD/executive function and life coach training, she earned an MBA from Georgetown University.

​Danelle has lived in the Alexandria area for 30 years and she and her husband are raising three children and two dogs.

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Danelle's Training and Certifications

• JST Coaching Kids and Teens
• CTI Life Coaching Coursework
• Tera Sumpter's Seeds of Learning Executive Function Practicum
• Gretchen Wegner's Antiboring Approach to Powerful Studying
• Gretchen Wegner's Art of Inspiring Students to Study Strategically
• Social Thinking: Social Thinking Vocabulary & Treatment Frameworks
  
• Coursera/Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn
• Positive Intelligence (PQ Coach Training Course)
• Social Thinking: How to Ask for Help

Sarah Ward/Cognitive Connections:

• Executive Function and Situational Awareness
• Executive Function and Processing Speed
• Executive Function and The Graduates (Transitioning from HS to College)
• Intensive Executive Functions Seminar with Emphasis on Speed of Processing and Nonverbal Learning Disability
  
• Everything from A-Z Practical Strategies for EF
• Facilitating Executive Function Skills During Online Teaching
• Closing the Gap: The January Reboot, Support for Students and Hybrid Learning
• Strategies to Engage the Anxious Student

Reading I have done that further informs my coaching:

• Linda K. Murphy Declarative Language Handbook [how to use language to help kids build executive function skills]
• Linda K. Murphy Co-regulation Handbook
• Barbara Oakley: A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
• Barbara Oakley: Uncommonsense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn