Victoria has first-hand experience of how executive function challenges can impact children’s lives; if only coaching had been available when she and her brothers were growing up, who knows the different paths their lives would have taken. Victoria studied Geography at the University of Cambridge. During her time at Cambridge she applied Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism to her own experience of prejudice against different thinkers and wrote her dissertation “Thinking Styles: Dyslexics as the misunderstood other”. After university she decided to give academics a break for a few years and began work in the food industry, later she set up a chain of award winning delicatessens in North London. She reignited her passion for teaching and helping students improve themselves when she volunteered to teach adult ladies English in Uganda in 2008. Victoria is a qualified teacher who left teaching to work as a private tutor with children with SENs. Victoria’s clients found that her personal experience and empathetic approach helped rebuild confidence lost through difficult school experiences. Victoria’s commitment to her students has always been second to none. When first introduced to coaching Victoria was so convinced her students could benefit from the approach she jumped on the first plane to the USA to attend one of Peg Dawson’s training seminars. Later that year she organised the very first coach training seminar in London, lead by Peg Dawson. It was at this training that she met Imogen and later Bettina, and they soon realised that they shared a unique commitment to helping children succeed. It was not long before they agreed to bring the Smart But Scattered coaching model to the UK through their company Connections in Mind.