Executive Function Coaching
Build the skills to get organized, get started, and follow through.
Executive function challenges can make it difficult to get started, stay organized, manage time, and follow through, even when someone is bright, capable, and motivated. For children, this can mean struggles with assignments and routines. For college students and adults, it can mean feeling overwhelmed by the demands of managing school, work, family and everyday life.
At Frankenberger Associates, Executive Function Coaching helps children, adolescents, college students, and adults build practical skills for greater confidence and independence.
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Thank you so much for setting my husband up with such a fantastic coach! I have observed his organization, task initiation, and vulnerability increase exponentially. The classes have been so helpful, and he told me tonight that he will be signing up for more sessions. He is starting a new…
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Clients Found Sessions Helpful
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Reported Staying Focused During Coaching
When It Feels Like a Struggle to Get Things Done
Executive function challenges can present in people who are bright, capable, and motivated but still struggle with:
- Starting on assignments or tasks
- Managing time effectively
- Organizing schoolwork, materials, or digital files
- Establishing consistent routines and habits
- Balancing competing academic, professional, and personal demands
- Keeping track of deadlines and responsibilities
- Staying focused and following through
- Breaking large projects into manageable steps
- Managing stress, frustration, or task paralysis
- Becoming more independent and confident
Executive function coaching helps turn these challenges into practical skills that can be used in real life.
Coaching That Turns Skills Into Action
Executive Function Coaching at Frankenberger Associates is individualized around each client’s strengths, challenges, goals, and real-world responsibilities.
Rather than teaching executive function skills in isolation, our coaches work with the things that are actually happening in a client’s life.
That might mean planning for upcoming assignments, creating a system for managing responsibilities, preparing for a transition to college, organizing a project, tackling something that has been put off, managing work or family responsibilities, or developing routines that make everyday life more manageable.
Learn the Strategies. Practice the Strategies. Get Things Done.
Our coaching is guided by the MAPS Framework™ and each plan is highly individualized. We begin with a comprehensive intake process to better understand each client’s strengths, challenges, goals, and daily demands.
Rather than teaching executive function skills in isolation, coaches integrate real academic, professional, and personal responsibilities directly into sessions so strategies can be practiced and applied immediately. This makes learning practical, relevant, and meaningful.
Mindset
Building motivation, confidence, and resilience.
Awareness
Recognizing strengths, challenges, and habits that shape learning.
Planning
Learning to prioritize, organize, and manage time effectively.
Strategies
Applying real-world tools that support follow-through, flexibility, and success.
Executive Function Coaching Services
Executive function challenges don’t look the same for everyone. That’s why we offer different levels of support for students, college learners, adults, professionals, and families.
Find the right level of support.
All of our programs are personalized around each client’s strengths, challenges, goals, and real-world responsibilities.
Core coaching
Executive Function Coaching
Personalized one-on-one coaching to build lasting executive function skills.
Great Fit For
Individuals who are ready to build executive function skills through personalized coaching and practice those skills between sessions.
More structure & accountability
EF Coaching + MAPS in Motion
1:1 coaching plus structured Focus Sessions for getting work done.
Great Fit For
Coaching clients who benefit from additional structure, accountability, and opportunities to put their executive function strategies into practice.
Family-system support
Family Executive Function Coaching
Student coaching plus coaching for parents and caregivers.
Great Fit For
Families who want to actively support executive function growth while helping their child or young adult become increasingly independent.
Who Can Benefit From Executive Function Coaching?
Whether challenges appear in academics, daily responsibilities, or professional life, executive function coaching provides practical strategies for building confidence, independence, and long-term success.
Individuals with ADHD, ASD, or Learning Disabilities
Executive function challenges are common among individuals with ADHD, ASD, and learning disabilities. Coaching helps clients develop practical strategies for organization, attention, time management, task initiation, and follow-through.
High-Achieving but Overwhelmed Students
Strong grades do not always mean strong executive functioning skills.
We support students who appear successful but struggle with organization, planning, time management, anxiety, perfectionism, and balancing academic and extracurricular responsibilities.
Students Transitioning to College
The transition to college often requires new levels of independence, self-management, and accountability.
Coaching helps students build sustainable routines, self-management and organizational skills, study habits, and systems for success.
Adults Balancing Personal and Professional Responsibilities
Executive functioning doesn’t end at graduation.
We support adults managing demanding careers, parenting responsibilities, personal goals, and daily responsibilities by providing strategies for organization, time management, goal setting, and follow-through.
What Does Executive Function Coaching Actually Look Like?
Every executive function coaching session at Frankenberger Associates is designed to be practical, personalized, and immediately applicable.
Sessions adapt to each client’s real-world needs, whether that means managing academic demands, navigating college transitions, or balancing work, home, and personal goals.
A Coaching Session May Include:
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Planning & Prioritization
Review deadlines, responsibilities, and competing demands while developing realistic plans and priorities.
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Task Management
Break large assignments and projects into manageable steps and create systems for successful completion.
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Academic Success
Support studying, note-taking, writing assignments, project management, and other academic responsibilities.
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Organization
Develop systems for managing backpacks, materials, schoolwork, and digital files.
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Time Management
Learn how to manage schedules, balance commitments, and prepare for upcoming deadlines and long-term projects.
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Routines & Habits
Strengthen morning, evening, homework, and study routines that support consistency and independence.
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Task Initiation & Focus
Build strategies for getting started, maintaining attention, and overcoming procrastination.
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Emotional Regulation & Resilience
Develop tools for managing stress, task paralysis, frustration, setbacks, and changing demands.
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Independence & Self-Advocacy
Build accountability, confidence, and the skills needed to advocate effectively and navigate challenges independently.
By working on what matters most right now, coaching becomes immediately applicable, and the skills developed foster greater independence, confidence, and long-term success.
Building the Skills That Matter Most
We focus on building the core executive functioning skills that support success across school, work, and daily life.
Organization & Planning
- Prioritization: Determine what matters most and what can wait, reducing overwhelm and improving decision-making.
- Organization: Develop systems to manage materials, assignments, and personal commitments across school and daily life.
- Planning Ahead: Learn to anticipate upcoming responsibilities, manage deadlines, and prepare for tasks before they become overwhelming.
- Habits & Routines: Create healthy daily habits and routines that support productivity, follow-through, and overall well-being.
Initiation & Execution
- Task Initiation: Learn how to fully understand assignments and get started more effectively, reducing procrastination, avoidance, and overwhelm.
- Breaking Down Tasks: Turn large or complex assignments into manageable, actionable steps.
- Follow-Through & Completion: Build the ability to sustain effort and complete work consistently.
- Tools & Systems: Use calendars, checklists, and planning tools effectively to support organization and time management.
Emotional Regulation & Self-Monitoring
- Time Awareness: Improve the ability to estimate and manage time, supporting better planning and reducing last-minute stress.
- Self-Monitoring: Build awareness of focus, effort, and performance in real time.
- Emotional Regulation: Develop strategies to manage frustration, anxiety, and setbacks with greater resilience.
- Health & Wellness: Understand how sleep, nutrition, exercise, and screen time impact focus, mood, and performance.
Why Frankenberger Associates?
500+
Families supported with executive function coaching.
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Clients who found their sessions helpful.
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Clients who felt confident in their next steps.
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Countries served, spanning 45 U.S. states.
All seems to be progressing well, small changes leading to better overall functioning, less anxiety and more productivity are the goals being addressed. Looking forward to continued improvement.
ParentThank you so much for setting my husband up with such a fantastic coach! I have observed his organization, task initiation, and vulnerability increase exponentially. The classes have been so helpful, and he told me tonight that he will be signing up for more sessions. He is starting a new…
SpouseYou have been an incredible resource for my son these past two years. I can’t believe how much he has learned and how much his confidence has grown. Thank you for being so kind and such a good teacher.
Parent