A New Approach to Helping Young People Self-Organize to Achieve their Goals

Executive functions are generally described as skills young people need to succeed in life, including initiation, working memory, inhibition, and self-monitoring. Traditional executive function coaching seeks to work with young people to develop these skills. By working with a student on self-monitoring, for example, traditional tutors hope to develop a skill that can be transferred across different domains of life.

At Bespoke Coaching Group, we move beyond traditional executive function coaching models. We believe that it is difficult to separate abstract executive functions from young people’s values and interest. Rather than start with a list of abstract skills, we begin by helping our advisees to identify their core values, interests, and passions. We then link organizational skills, including but not limited to traditional executive functions, to these core values and interests.