Fractional strategic & operational partnership for leaders and teams navigating neurodiversity and reclaiming capacity.
Who this is for
If you're looking for someone to just handle tasks - that's not me.
This is for the leader who has built success despite how hard it's felt, and is only now starting to understand why.
The person that knows that changing a few processes, adding in a few tools and making a few calendar reshuffles isn't going to solve anything because the real work is much deeper than that.
I start with creating relief in your daily life, to buy us the room to do the deep work that's needed.
What comes out of our work isn't small - it can change how your time is structured, how your household or business actually runs, or how people can work with each other instead of working around each other.
You're sick of making life decisions whilst running between meetings.
'You're so strong' - the traits that everyone praises you for are silently running you into the ground.
Your 3am internal alarm is killing your ability to make any proper decisions after 2pm.
You're still thinking about the throwaway comment that was made in a meeting a week ago and totally flattened you, but no one knows why it did.
You can't remember the last time you spent proper, uninterrupted time with the people you love and the guilt is real.
You've gotten good at saying 'yes' to the thing without having worked out just how much that's going to cost you later.
You know something internally has shifted and you can't carry on like this, but you don't quite know how to navigate it.
You know your existing systems don't serve the people using them, and you want to find a way to change that.
The professional and the personal aren't separate problems - I'm the person in the room looking at both.
You've already tried the systems everyone recommends, the inherited frameworks, the restructures, the 'fresh start' every January.
Deep down, you know something bigger needs to change.
That's because the problem isn't where you've been looking for it.
How I work
I don't change anything until I understand what's actually wrong; and that can't be done through a form.
It takes real time with you or your team, understanding how you think, how you work, and what your days actually look like - the cause of the problem is rarely the thing being described as the problem.
Then we build with you, around what's actually needed. Not an adapted version of something that worked elsewhere, or a set of recommendations you're then left to implement on your own.
I provide sustainable solutions and ways of working that add value to the areas of your life where you need them the most.
The way in
It starts with a month.
One month, working closely, with a result at the end of it.
What happens inside that month depends entirely on you.
People come to me overwhelmed and fairly sure that nobody can properly understand the situation.
That isn't where they are a month later.
What is fixed is the month, and where you start and finish.
What's not fixed is the bit between.
For some, the relief comes first.
For others, the thinking comes first, and everything else follows from it.
Leaders & Organisations
Leaders who can't keep working at the pace they're working at. Teams where something isn't working and nobody truly knows what that something is.
I work with the individual, not just the job title. The team and the people in it, not just the function.
That might mean working alongside an established operational team, working with a leadership team, or individual on a 1:1 basis.
Private Clients
Your priorities managed for you, not by you.
Understanding the needs of principals operating at the most senior levels, without needing it explained.
Aligned management and coordination of lifestyle, households, staff, property, travel, events and private functions.
Discretion is a given.
Who I am
I'm Kirsten, a Senior Executive and Operational Partner with over 25 years of strategic, operational and project work across public sector, global corporate, founder-led, hospitality & events, start-up and high-net-worth environments.
I'm late diagnosed myself, but it's now just my own experience that shapes how I work. Neurodivergence isn't just one thing, and understanding the nuance across its different forms is what lets me meet people wherever they actually are.
Everyone starts at a different point. Some are unsure if this applies to them, some haven't had the headspace to explore it, some already know and are in the middle of unmasking, some just know that things that used to feel easy to manage feel harder all of a sudden, and its difficult to understand why. Some aren't neurodivergent themselves, but want to build ways of working that can that benefit everyone long term.
I've worked with leaders, chief executives, founders and high-net-worth households in so many different worlds that I know where the pressures are genuinely the same, and where they're nothing alike.
I've watched working systems and practices stop considering the people inside them. I've been in enough rooms at enough levels to see the same friction points appear in completely different places. In a world that's technologically changing at pace, my focus remains with the humans doing the work and how evolving systems can support them, rather than work against them.
What people say...
'Kirsten has worked on business development, and worked with me to streamline processes within my operations. My day to day is now much easier to manage, and my business more profitable'.
'Kirsten works around how I actually think, and what I actually have capacity for - the systems I now use are far less overwhelming and I feel in control of my mind and time again.'
'Kirsten is a source of inspiration, constantly seeking to improve processes, culture and organisational outcomes.'
It starts with a conversation. Let's find out if the fit is right.
kirsten@ad-va.solutions
© AD-VA Solutions 2026