Chantal Normand · Unmasked Leadership
Coaching, community and strategic thinking partnership for late-diagnosed professionals rebuilding a life they can actually live.
MEd · CPF · ICF ACC
One — the Workbook
The first nine months after your diagnosis. The roadmap that was always supposed to exist.
I was diagnosed with ADHD at 49. Autism at 51. Nobody handed me a map for what came after — so I built the one I needed, and then I made it for you.
Eight sections that open gently across nine months: the diagnosis landing, stabilising your nervous system, the grief no one names, re-reading your career, the anger that is accurate, disclosure at work, and what comes next.
You read. You reflect in your own words. Your writing stays yours — export it to a PDF anytime.
No thirty-day transformation. No hustle. Integration cannot be hurried.
Get the Workbook — $47 · lifetime accessTwo — working together
For capable women who spent decades pushing through, and are now re-reading a whole career through a lens they didn't have at the time.
Three ways to begin. Whether you're just starting to make sense of a diagnosis, deep in career decisions, or leading through a consequential season — there's a door here for you.
For when you're not ready for coaching, can't afford it right now, or simply want to think on paper first.
For when you need peer connection, not a program. Your first two Monthly Connection sessions are free.
Focused, private coaching. For specific questions, sustained integration, or senior-leader strategic partnership.
Three — for clinicians
The women in your practice with ADHD or autism do not present the way the criteria describe. For most of the last century, the criteria were built by watching boys.
Autism was first described in girls in 1927. That paper was not translated into English until 2020. The criteria that filled the intervening century were shaped by male samples and male-referred cases.
Women camouflage more — and the more a woman camouflages, the later she is diagnosed. Most clinicians were never trained to see autism or ADHD once it has been compensated.
Is it lifelong and context-stable, or situational and recent? What did it cost her to manage it? What came first — sensory and demand load, or the interpersonal moment?
None of this replaces your clinical judgement. It adds a developmental history to it.Download the one-page primer (PDF)
Four — about
I spent thirty years helping some of the most complex organizations in Canada change — Providence Health Care, ICBC, the Government of Alberta, the Ontario Ministry of Health, the City of Edmonton, and many more. I was good at my work. I did not know why it cost me so much.
I was diagnosed late. Late enough that by the time I understood what had been happening to me, I had been pushed out of more jobs than I could explain, used my retirement to survive the gaps, and eventually sold the home I had bought at twenty-nine. I am fifty-three.
I am starting over — not because I failed, but because I finally have the language for why the systems I had excelled inside had also been quietly extracting me.
My professional superpower — reading rooms at extraordinary speed, facilitating two hundred strangers into agreement in a single afternoon, seeing patterns others missed — is what researchers now call the camouflager's gift. The cost of carrying it unnamed, for thirty years, was my health, my savings, and the career I thought I had built.
I don't coach neurodivergence as a clinical specialty. I coach from it.
I bring thirty years of organizational development science, an ICF executive coaching credential, a Master of Education from OISE at the University of Toronto, Prosci change management certification, and a deep Christian spiritual formation that is how I survived what I survived.
My faith is the reason I'm still here. I hold it quietly for my clients, whether they share it or not.
If you have recently been diagnosed, or you're reading this late at night because something has finally clicked, you have found the right person. I know the terrain. I know the grief. I know the questions you cannot ask anyone else.
Master of Education, OISE · University of Toronto
ICF Certified Executive Coach, ACC
Certified Professional Facilitator
APA B-Level Assessor, individual and group
Master's-level certification in Career Development
Prosci Change Management Certification
McKnight Professional Community Developer
Co-founder, Unmasked Leadership
If you are her, the door is open.
If you know her, send her.
