You’ve built a career most people would envy.

You're successful, capable, and respected in your field. But success built on constant adaptation and overcompensation is starting to feel unsustainable.

You’re something of an outlier. Your mind works differently: sometimes brilliantly fast, sometimes frustratingly slow.

You've learned to navigate this by outworking other people, but the internal friction is getting louder.

Everything feels fragmented. Performative. Draining. You know how to deliver results and say the right thing, but you've lost touch with your own voice along the way.

The gap between what you've achieved and what your nervous system can actually handle is becoming impossible to ignore.

A bright curious woman who cares about making a beautiful world

What you’re experiencing:

You’re exhausted but you can’t slow down.

You’ve invested in support (coaching, therapy, systems) but something still isn’t clicking.

Your team needs you for everything and you hate being constantly on-call.

You can’t tell if you’re overfunctioning, underfunctioning… or both!

Your success doesn't feel like a true expression of your capabilities - or what lights you up.

A relaxed women after coaching for overwhelm

You still have so much to do! You’re excited about the possibilities ahead of you.

What you don’t know is how to move forward professionally without falling deeper into physical or emotional burnout.

Years of masking, adapting, and deadline-crunching have scrambled your internal compass.

You’ve been unconsciously compensating for dysregulation by achieving. Doing. Producing.

You don’t need another mindset coach, to hack your productivity or finally nail your morning routine.

You need aligned, strategic optimization designed for brains and bodies like yours - so you can finally breathe.

Ready to take things at your own pace while still getting ahead?

That’s where I come in.

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Hi, I’m Alice Irving

I’m a Regenerative Career Strategist for complex, brilliant minds. If you’re gifted, neurodivergent, or are managing chronic health issues alongside a successful career, you’re in the right place.

I help you build a living which reflects your real capacities and values, whether that’s rethinking your career, unmasking your leadership style, or designing services, offers and income streams that feel actually possible for your nervous system.

For over 15 years I've been developing frameworks that help complex minds optimize their success without burning out. I help you create a working life that honours your body, your brilliance and your capacity without betraying your values.

My work blends identity and career coaching with product and business strategy. It’s designed specifically for nonconforming leaders-in-field who need things to be emotionally true, structurally kind, and operationally sane.

I see beyond the surface masks, roles and “performance of work” to the hidden architecture of your personal and working life. Together we untangle the pressure, pace and expectations in your life so your work can feel deeply aligned.

This isn’t about managing or compensating for who you are and how your brain works - it’s about leveraging it for strategic advantage.

Alice Irving coaching for neurodiversity

Hi, I'm Alice

My Mission

Let me help you create the conditions for your consistent success.

We spend on average one third of our lives at work. Who we are allowed to be while working is one of the most radical frontiers of our time.

I stand for a world in which unique brains and bodies don’t just survive the workplace… we shape it, from the top, from the bottom, and by entirely disrupting the whole system.

With me you’ll:

Identify your optimal performance patterns and sustainable pace.

Design systems that leverage your neurotype rather than fighting it.

Maximise professional value through authentic expression, not performance and pretense.
You’ll return to deep inner alignment to your own frequency while building real-world specialisation - and systems - that will sustain you into the next era of your life and career.

I believe:

That ambition can coexist with softness.
That masking is a form of exile (or a power move - depending on how you wield it.)

That rest is strategic.

That integrity is infrastructure.

"Alice has an incredible ability to know what I need during a session, understanding and empathising with how my brain works. She can explain this and find solutions to help solve the crunchy bits. Alice has helped me to delegate, let things go and organise my time in a way that I never thought was possible. I’ve been able to create enough space in the week to re-ignite my music career while doing more strategic work, and charging a more appropriate rate for my consulting work. It's a whole new world!"

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How I got here

I grew up amidst contrast. My dad's upbringing was steeped in the British establishment: generations of elite education, lawyers, culture-makers, politicians, public servants - and colonial overlords. My mum left school at 14, walking away from an agricultural childhood in rural Wales. She changed her name, lost her accent and did her exams in evening classes while my siblings were small.

Both my parents defined themselves by where they came from and railed against that. I grew up feeling like an outsider in both their worlds, my sense of belonging contorted and unplaceable.

Observing my younger sister’s experience of significant learning disability, my dad’s journey through Bi-Polar disorder (and resulting loss of his career as a barrister) and the experiences of an ethnically diverse extended family alerted me to subtexts of power, status and privilege from an early age.

I am Autistic, ADHD, and Dyspraxic: identities which have been slow to emerge and delicate to absorb into a self built around intellect, achievement and capability.

In-betweenness is very familiar to me. I’m comfortable with complexity and contradiction - in fact, it fascinates me.

From Politics to Coaching

Having originally intended to go to drama school (it would have been directing, dahling), I took a left turn, studied Politics and ended up doing culture sector consultancy in the UK capital, focussed on marginalised audiences and creators in the publicly funded Arts.

A Strategist at Heart

I quickly got a taste for strategy as a fundraiser and evaluator for multi-stakeholder, big budget community engagement projects. Feeling drawn to make a deeper, more personal impact, I moved into coaching soon after embarking on motherhood and was soon fascinated by people’s relationship with mastery.

15yrs of Coaching

I have been coaching for over fifteen years, and have spent the last 5 years focussed exclusively on neurodivergent and marginalised professionals.

I love systems theory, regenerative strategy and design thinking. I am usually reading about 10 books at any given moment, have been described as a “walking encyclopedia” and I love using my hyperfocus to solve juicy, real world problems.

INFP. Human Design Projector (Hermit/Sage). Cat Valet. Queer. Single and step-parent of teenagers. Novice (obsessive) gardener.

I’m here to help you build work that finally fits. Not just in theory, but in your nervous system, your politics, and your soul.

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11 Tools For Success Without Burnout. For highly-sensitive, ambitious neurodivergent folk.