Speaker Profile

Minal Kamlani

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Minal Kamlani’s talks are built for people who are tired of pretending. She takes the tangled mess of human behavior and turns it into clear, usable insight that actually changes how people move through the world.

Expect conversations that are challenging, funny, and real. The kind that inspires people to own their full range of what it means to be human. And resources help them lead, live, and connect differently.

If you’re ready for an honest, inclusive, deeply human take on neurodiversity, trauma care, or recovery, she’s your speaker.

About Minal

Minal Kamlani is a certified Leadership, ADHD, and Recovery Coach based in NYC—part strategist, part storyteller, and a touch of joyful chaos wrapped in compassion. After 20+ years in advertising, she shifted from shaping corporate narratives to supporting human ones.

As a recognized thought leader within the International Coaching Federation (ICF), she designs and facilitates trauma-informed coaching education focused on neurodiversity and recovery. She also founded and hosts the ICF NYC Coaching for Neurodiversity Special Interest Group, where she brings coaches together to deepen skill, nuance, and care in their work.

Keynote Talks & Trainings

Coaching Practice & Innovation

  • AI, Coaching, and Human Connection: Innovation Without Erasure: AI is reshaping how we coach, lead, and connect — but without intention, it can amplify bias and erase nuance. This talk explores how ethical, neuroinclusive AI can supplement coaching while preserving empathy and equity. Learn practical ways to use adaptive technology to expand access and reduce systemic bias — without losing the human relationship at the core of transformation.

  • Coaching at the Intersections: Identity, Power, and Permission: Coaching doesn’t happen in a vacuum — it happens inside systems of power and identity. This provocative, emotionally intelligent conversation explores how privilege, neurotype, and culture shape the coaching dynamic. Attendees gain tools for cultural humility and inclusive practice that honor difference without fragility.

Neurodiversity, Trauma & Recovery

  • The Intersection of ADHD, Trauma, and Addiction: Rethinking Resilience: ADHD, trauma, and addiction often overlap — not as pathology but as patterns of adaptation. This keynote reframes the “high-functioning” myth through a trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming lens. Audiences learn how shame, overachievement, and burnout become survival strategies, and how recovery, self-trust, and nervous-system regulation create sustainable resilience for neurodivergent professionals and leaders.

  • Recovery Beyond the Binary: Harm Reduction, Humor, and Self-Trust: Recovery isn’t linear — and it’s not all or nothing. This talk brings a trauma-informed, harm-reduction approach to healing from perfectionism, overwork, and substance use. Audiences explore how mindfulness, compassion, and self-trust drive sustainable recovery — replacing judgment with curiosity and control with connection.

Leadership & Neurodiversity

  • Beyond the Buzzwords: What Neurodiversity-Informed Leadership Really Means: “Neurodiversity” has become a corporate tagline — but inclusion can’t stop at awareness slides. This session unpacks what true neurodiversity-informed leadership looks like: trauma-aware management, bias-conscious decision-making, and psychologically safe communication. Audiences leave with frameworks to design systems and teams that honor diverse nervous systems, thinking styles, and communication needs — creating workplaces where every brain can thrive.

  • Reclaiming Control: Trauma-Informed Leadership in Real Life: High achievers often lead from a place of hypervigilance rather than confidence. This session teaches trauma-informed leadership and emotional-regulation strategies for executives and teams. Participants learn how to cultivate psychological safety, reduce burnout, and lead with clarity and compassion instead of control.

  • Embodiment Is Intelligence: Healing the Nervous System for Leadership and Recovery: For trauma survivors and neurodivergent professionals, the body isn’t the obstacle — it’s the instrument. This keynote reframes leadership and recovery beyond mindset and into body-set — using the nervous system as data, intuition, and design. Blending neuroscience, coaching psychology, and trauma recovery, you’ll learn how emotional regulation, self-styling, and sensory awareness build authentic presence, grounded decision-making, and psychological safety. Audiences leave with practical tools for turning embodiment into intelligence — and regulation into power.

    • Keynotes • Moderating • Roundtables • Trainings • Interviews • Guest Lectures • Program Design

    • Paid and select pro bono engagements

    • Available in NYC and/or online

  • See the event list here.

    • ICF-Certified (PCC candidate)

    • Trauma-Informed and Recovery Coach (TICC, CPRC)

    • Founder of the Neurodiversity Coaching SIG at ICF NYC

    • 1,000+ hours coaching

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