Most leadership coaches ask a client to change how they operate, but Ghada Yared asks a different question first: how does this mind actually work, and what happens when we stop fighting it? That shift, from correction to comprehension, sits at the center of everything the Beirut-based coach does, whether she is sitting across from a CEO whose team keeps missing each other, or a parent trying to understand a child whose brain runs on a different clock.
Yared is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, a systemic team coach trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC), a certified EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 assessor, a CPD certified trainer, and a professional mediator. She currently serves as President of the ICF Lebanon Chapter, a role she took on in 2025 after four years on its board. Under her leadership, the chapter has hit record membership, built lasting partnerships, expanded its offerings, and won back-to-back Chapter Excellence Awards, an achievement she does not take lightly given the context.
She runs her practice, Wonderlust Coaching, out of Beirut, and for the past decade she has carried that work into some of Lebanon’s largest organizations and institutions. As she puts it on her Leadership Coach Directory profile, “I coach and train those who think different and lead different.”
The Case She Makes to Leaders
Yared’s core argument to executives is a business one before it is a compassionate one. She sees neurodivergent thinking, the minds that process information, attention, and problems differently, as an underused source of performance rather than a liability to manage around. “In an era of volatility, organizations that thrive are the ones that tap every mind on the team, including the ones wired differently,” she writes. “That’s where unprecedented performance, psychological safety, and agility come from.”
Her frustration, if she has one, is with how often that potential goes untouched. “Most companies leave this power unused, or manage it away,” she says. “I help leaders spot it, name it, and build with it.” A decade of working inside Lebanese institutions has convinced her the pattern is not situational. “The pattern holds everywhere: once people understand how their minds actually work, including the ones that disrupt the usual playbook, performance follows.”
For leaders trying to decide whether this work applies to them, her pitch is direct rather than theoretical. “If you lead people, I offer a sharper read on how your team thinks, and what that unlocks.”
From Law and Mediation to the Coaching Room
Yared did not start out in coaching. Before she ever sat across from a client in that capacity, she studied law and mediation and spent years doing volunteer work with NGOs across Lebanon, an early education in how people actually resolve conflict rather than how a textbook says they should. Her path into coaching was more personal than professional at first. As a parent, she found herself in what she describes as a string of “enlightening conversations with fellow parents, youth and professionals about the challenges involved in supporting children and teens to reach their full potential,” and those conversations, she says, “resonated deeply in me.” You can read the fuller account on her My Story page.
That early focus on family and adolescent development, particularly around ADHD, executive function, and attention, has since expanded into the systemic and organizational work she is known for today, but the throughline never changed. “I define myself as a coach and a trainer because I find it so rewarding to watch others grow,” she says. “I’m passionate about empowering individuals, teams and families to design the lives they want to lead and uncover their incredible talents.”
Her background is genuinely international. Raised mostly in Europe before returning to Lebanon, she describes her “Oriental and European heritages” as “precious gifts” that gave her three fluent languages, English, French, and Arabic, and what she calls “an insatiable appetite for people.” She works with clients in all three languages, in person and online.
A Methodology Built on Understanding
Ask Yared how she works and the answer keeps circling back to one idea: strategy without understanding does not stick. Her ADHD, family, and mental fitness specialties, she explains, let her train and coach people “from a true understanding of how attention, distractibility and executive function challenges impact each person differently,” and then build “tailor-made strategies that will create a sustainable shift to their brain wiring, performance and overall well being,” a description she gives in detail on her Wonderlust homepage.
That same logic scales up to teams. Where individual coaching starts by mapping how one mind works, team coaching through ORSC starts by mapping how a group’s dynamics work, surfacing the friction points a team may sense but has never been able to name. It is systems thinking applied to the messy, human reality of people trying to collaborate under pressure.
Her client base backs up how far that approach reaches. One client, describing years of coaching in a testimonial on her website, credits her with a shift in how they handled pressure entirely: “She has taught me how to compartmentalize stress even when I find myself in the most high-pressure situations, organize my life, and make sure it’s always balanced.” Another client, who came in feeling stuck, put it more simply: “I was on a merry go round in my head, feeling stuck. Ghada helped me sift through my tangled thoughts and determine what was really important to me. Knowing what I wanted moved me right into action.”
A client from London who worked with her professionally offered a similar read on her method. “Ghada is a very skilled and tactful coach,” they wrote. “Her methodology with clients is led with compassion and understanding. She guides them to discovering the root of an issue and helps them formulate a plan of action to address it.”
Since 2018, that methodology has also shown up in more than 150 hours of workshops and webinars delivered across Lebanon and, increasingly, abroad. Her workshop history reads like a running log of the exact problems modern teams and families bring to her: sessions on overcoming procrastination, de-escalating conflict, positive intelligence, emotional balance, and, repeatedly, how to recognize and support ADHD in both children and adults.
What It’s Like to Work With Her
Clients describe Yared’s presence as warm rather than clinical, a coach who leads with what one testimonial called “compassion and understanding” while still pushing toward concrete outcomes. Her communication style is calm and conversational most of the time, though those who have seen her run a live workshop describe an energetic, hands-on side that comes out in group settings. A parent who worked with her for close to a year around a difficult relationship with her teenage daughter described feeling comfortable “dès la première rencontre grâce à son accueil chaleureux et sa bienveillance,” at ease from the very first meeting because of her warm welcome and genuine care, and credited her with practical tools that are still in use long after the sessions ended.
That balance, rigorous frameworks delivered with real warmth, is likely why so many of her engagements turn into repeat relationships, whether that is a corporate client bringing her back for a second workshop or a family that stays in touch years after the initial coaching ended.
Yared’s practice sits at the intersection of three disciplines: systemic team coaching, neurodivergence and ADHD coaching, and emotional intelligence. She works with individuals, teams, and entire organizations, and the entry point changes depending on who walks in the door, but the underlying process does not.
Individual coaching covers ground like executive function, emotional intelligence, mental fitness, conflict management, and communication. Team coaching draws on the ORSC model to help leadership groups work through friction or transition, and workshops or webinars for organizations are built around whatever the team or company is actually facing rather than a fixed curriculum. Every individual engagement opens with a free chemistry session, a no-cost conversation to check the fit before anything is booked. Team and organizational work starts with a discovery meeting instead, followed by a proposal built specifically for that group. At the end of any engagement, clients receive a structured growth report outlining what shifted and where to go next.
What ties the services together is her belief that a template approach misses the point entirely. “Because I draw on several areas of expertise, Systemic Coaching, Neurodivergence and ADHD Coaching, Mental Fitness, EQ, and Mediation, every service is built around your profile, not a fixed template,” she explains on her services page.
Get In Touch With Ghada Yared
For senior leaders considering whether Ghada Yared is the right fit, a few starting points:
- Ghada Yared’s Leadership Coach Directory Profile
- Wonderlust Coaching Website
- Email: ghada@wonderlustcoaching.life
- Book a Free Chemistry Session (Calendly)
She works with clients in English, French, and Arabic, both online and in person from her base in Beirut.
