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About UACC

Born from lived experience. Built with purpose. Driven by the belief that every mind deserves to be understood.

UACC began with a mother, a child, and a system that wasn’t built for either of them.

Uzma Akser, Founder and CEO started this work not from a textbook, but from the front lines of parenting a neurodivergent child across two continents, two cultures, and two educational systems. She saw what families go through when the world doesn’t understand their child. She became the advocate she needed and then built a consultancy so others wouldn’t have to fight alone.

Today, UACC is a team of specialists spanning the UK, the Gulf, Canada, and the United States bringing over 75 years of combined expertise in neurodiversity, coaching, education, and inclusive leadership to every organisation and family we serve.

We work with global corporations and individual families. With schools and universities. With ICF coaches and HR directors. With children finding their voice and leaders learning to listen. Whatever brings you here, you have found the right place.

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Countries  UK · UAE · Canada · USA

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Years combined expertise across the team

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continents of delivery experience

ICF

Credentialed coaching practice

CPD

Accredited training programmes

Meet Uzma Akser Founder and CEO

I am a coach, a trainer, a speaker, an author, and a researcher. But I started as a mother who refused to accept that her son’s potential had limits.
 
My journey began in the UK, where I was raised, educated, and began my career. Over twenty years of professional experience in education, coaching, and training I developed a deep understanding of how people learn, lead, and grow. Then came a decade I wouldn’t trade for anything: a deliberate choice to step away from employment, stay home, and pour everything I had into raising and homeschooling my neurodivergent son. That decade wasn’t a pause. It was the most intensive professional development of my life.
 
Living and working across the Gulf region gave me a perspective that most trainers simply don’t have. I understand what it means to navigate neurodiversity not just in British systems but in Gulf educational and corporate environments, where cultural expectations, community stigma, and limited support infrastructure create a very different set of challenges for families. I have lived that. I have helped others navigate it.
 
When I founded UACC, I brought all of it together: the ICF coaching credential, the CPD-accredited training programmes, the international speaking experience, the published children’s book, the cross-cultural expertise, and the research I am now developing into a framework for neuroinclusive executive functioning support.
 
I am not a theorist who happened upon neurodiversity. I am a practitioner who was forged by it.
 
I founded UACC so that the families, leaders, and educators I work with never have to find their way alone in whatever country, culture, or system they are navigating.
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A diverse, international team united by one mission

UACC is not a one-person operation. We are a carefully assembled team of coaches, trainers, educators, and consultants based across the UK, the Gulf, Canada, and the United States, with over 75 years of combined professional experience.
 
Our team is intentionally diverse. We come from different countries, cultures, and professional backgrounds. We understand what inclusion looks like not as a policy, but as a lived reality. That breadth is what makes our work different and what makes it land differently in organisations and families across the world.
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Uzma Akser

Neurodiversity and Neuroinclusion Coach, Trainer

  • ACA Coach Academies Certified

  • Credentialed Life and Academic Coach

  • Certified Autism Specialist (IBCCES)

  • Neuroinclusion Advocate

  • LLB (Hons) and a postgraduate in Legal Practice Course (UK)

  • Training in Human Rights

  • Founder of Uzma Akser Coaching and Consulting

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Jacob Hawsa

Professional Neurolanguage Coach®

  • Yale SOM Accelerated Management Program
  • Master’s degree in Linguistics
  • Licensed Neurolanguage® Certificate Trainer
  • Professional Neurolanguage Coach®
  • Neuroheart Education® Coach
  • HarvardX, Fundamentals of Neuroscience
  • 15+ years in education
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Mazen Edlibi

Transformational and EQ Coach

  • Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) from – CTI (USA)

  • Co-active Leadership Program Graduate – CTI

  • Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching, The Academy of Executive Coaching (UK)

  • ORSC Intelligence, CRR Global

  • NLP Business Practitioner

  • MBTI Step I and Step II Certification, CPP Inc.

  • Co-founder of Mazhud Touch

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Assia Nait Kassi

MSc, SKJ registered, public health advisor, pedagogue.

  • Experienced professional passionate about public health, mental health, education and inclusive societies.

  • Analytical and adaptable with a strong desire for learning and tackling challenges. Collaborative leadership style focused on team success.

  • Researcher in the social and public domain leveraging behavioural science to change health outcomes across marginalised groups.

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Dr. Idrees A Mohammed

Senior OD and DEI Leader

  •  Organisation Development and Organisation Design for transformation, adoption and sustained delivery
  •  Culture transformation built on emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence and inclusion
  •  Governance, assurance and performance reporting that leaders can act on
  •  Leadership and management capability, CPDs, coaching and mentoring
  •  Workforce equity, wellbeing and neurodiversity, designed into systems not added on

Connecting Worldwide

UK

Delivering corporate neuroinclusion training, coaching, and CPD programmes across the UK — from London to Manchester, in-person and online.

Gulf Region (UAE & GCC)

Deep cross-cultural expertise in neuroinclusion within Gulf educational and corporate environments. Uzma's lived and professional experience of this region is unmatched in the neuroinclusion field.

Canada

North American coaching and consultancy expertise, supporting organisations and individuals navigating neurodiversity in Canadian educational and workplace settings.

United States

Specialist expertise connecting our international work with US-based academic, corporate, and coaching communities.

Our Core Beliefs

Every mind is worth understanding. Not as a performance of inclusion — but as a genuine belief that difference is not deficit, and that the right environment changes everything.
Lived experience is expertise. The parent who fought for their child through every system that failed them knows something that no qualification can teach. We honour that knowledge. We build on it.
Change happens in small steps, and it compounds. Every manager who leads more inclusively. Every parent who feels less alone. Every young person who discovers they are not broken. These moments accumulate into a different world.
Inclusion is personal before it is professional. We do not deliver neuroinclusion training because it is a market opportunity. We deliver it because we have lived on the other side of exclusion and we know what it costs.
"We exist to create a world where education and leadership don't just acknowledge neurodiversity, they are transformed by it." — Uzma Akser, Founder and CEO, UACC
Our guiding belief: Every small step makes a huge impact. Change does not arrive all at once. It grows with every conversation, every act of understanding, and every door that opens a little wider. We are here to help you take the next step, wherever you are starting from.
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Collaborated With

Neurodiversity & Leadership Courses Certified


Certified by The CPD Certification Service

ICF Credentialed Coach | Mentor Coaching

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For organisations

Ready to build a neuroinclusive organisation? Whether you are looking for a half-day training session or a long-term consultancy partner, we would love to hear about what you are working on.
Book a free 30-min discovery call

For individuals and families

Our first conversation is always a free 30-minute call

no pressure, no pitch. Just an honest conversation about where you are and what might help.

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TESTIMONIAL

Employer - ADHD Coaching Corporate Feedback
"We have used Uzma for neurodiversity coaching, supporting our employees over the past year. Uzma offers a person-centred approach with practical and actionable strategies. We have received excellent feedback from our staff with notable impact. Uzma offers flexibility for our organisation and can tailor the sessions accordingly. We would recommend Uzma’s expertise".