Executive Function Coaching Program

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If you answered yes to any of these questions, your child would benefit from working with a Professional Executive Function Coach through HabitCoach’s Executive Function Coaching Program.

What Is Executive Function?

Executive Function is the set of thinking skills that help people get things done. For kids struggling with school or acting out at home, weak Executive Function skills are often the cause.

Executive Functions include the following 10 skills:

1. Task Initiation – A child with procrastination issues may struggle getting started on homework.
2. Focus and Follow-Through – Even if a child can get started on a task, like setting the table, they may get easily distracted by a sibling, a noise, a reminder on their phone, and may not be able to finish the task.
3. Organization – Kids have all sorts of challenges with organization. They may do their homework but forget to turn it in. Their rooms may be so messy that they can’t find anything. Or their texts, emails, and documents on their computer may have no sense of organization.
4. Prioritization and Planning – Kids who have poor planning skills often find themselves cramming to get things done at the last minute. If they struggle with prioritization, they may make poor choices about what to do first.
5. Response Inhibition – Impulsive kids have trouble pausing before they act. They may fly off the handle at a moment’s notice or say or text something they later regret.
6. Working Memory – If a parent gives a child a string of instructions and the child can only complete one or two of them, it may be because the child forgets one of the steps due to weak working memory.
7. Time Management – Kids with Executive Function challenges can be “time blind” and leave 10 minutes to do their homework when it really takes 30 minutes.
8. Mental Flexibility  – If a child hears a parent trying to get them to do a task, such as setting the table, but they are deeply engrossed in their own task, like playing a video game, they need to develop sufficient mental flexibility to help them switch off from one task to another.
9. Emotional Control  – A child with poor emotional control may become angry at their parent when asked to perform a reasonable, common task, such as setting the table.
10. Self-Awareness – Self-awareness is an advanced skill for many kids, but a skill that is mandatory for them to self-reflect and improve their school performance and social behavior.

The Executive Function Coaching Program helps kids learn to play to their strengths and find improvements and workarounds for their Executive Function weaknesses. This is the key to improvement in academics, behavior, and ADHD symptoms.

Not sure about your child’s Executive Function strengths and weaknesses? Have your child take a Free Executive Function Assessment.

How Will HabitCoach’s Executive Function Coaching Program Help My Child?

(Packages starting at less than $70/week)

Research shows that it is critical for children to build healthy habits early in life. The HabitCoach Executive Function Coaching Program is a great way for your child to build these Executive Function skills, including getting started, organization, time management, and social and emotional skills. Working with a Professional Executive Function Coach in HabitCoach’s Executive Function Coaching Program will help your child in the following areas:

1.  Academics

Many research studies show that strong Executive Function is the key to academic success. These skills help children plan, focus, remember, and stay organized.

These key Executive Function Skills can make all the difference in academic success:

Working Memory
This skill enables students to retain information in their minds while using it to solve problems or follow instructions. Weak working memory makes it hard for children to recall what they just learned or follow steps in a math problem or science experiment.

Planning and Prioritization
The ability to set goals, break them down, and determine what is most important is crucial for managing assignments and projects. Does your child struggle with planning out their week or deciding what to tackle first?

Organizational Skills
From backpacks to Google Docs, students need systems to keep their materials and thoughts in order. Disorganization can lead to missed deadlines and growing frustration. Kids with poor organizational skills often have messy rooms, cluttered desks, and unclear thought processes.

Time Management
Being able to estimate how long a task will take and stick to a schedule is key to avoiding late-night cramming and incomplete assignments.

2.  Behavior

Very often, when a child is struggling with their behavior, the answer lies in underlying Executive Function challenges.

If your child does not respond when you are trying to get their attention, it can be maddening. But understanding how their brain works in these moments is key:

• Is he hyperfocused on whatever task he is doing and thus unable to process you trying to get his attention?
• Does he have issues with mental flexibility and can’t switch off the task he is doing? Does he have procrastination issues, and even though he hears what you are saying, can’t get started on what you need him to do?
• Does he struggle with distraction and start your task, but has problems finishing it.

The professional coaches at HabitCoach are trained to delve beneath the surface of behavioral issues and help children understand their brains and how to develop skills that will improve their behavior and effectiveness.

3.  ADHD Symptoms

If your child has received a diagnosis of ADHD or has some strong ADHD symptoms, even without a diagnosis, you may have learned by now that ADHD is a neurobiological disorder of Executive Function. Helping kids with ADHD learn to play to their Executive Function strengths and improve their Executive Function weaknesses is the key to getting great long-term life success.

At HabitCoach, when we see children with ADHD, they always have deficits in a range of Executive Functions, not just attention and hyperactivity, but also working memory, organization, procrastination, time management, emotional control, mental flexibility, or self-awareness.

Want to learn more about the HabitCoach program? Schedule a free consultation with one of our Executive Function experts.

What’s Included in HabitCoach’s Executive Function Coaching Program

1. Assessment

Your child’s program will start with an Executive Function assessment to help guide coaching sessions to both help your child play to their strengths and improve their weaknesses.

2. Weekly One-to-One Session with Your HabitCoach (25-minute sessions)

Your child will meet with their coach once a week for 25 minutes. The HabitCoach Executive Function curriculum is the backbone of these sessions. These lessons teach your child about the underlying issues in building new skills and help them learn new strategies to succeed in a wide range of challenges. Coaches respond specifically to each child’s needs and personalize their work to help your children achieve goals both at home and at school, as well as address social and emotional issues. Your child will set goals with their coach, and their coach will help them work towards these goals.

Looking for a program with longer, in-depth sessions? Check out our Advanced Coaching Program.

3. Weekly Check-in with an Assistant HabitCoach (15-minute check-in)

Once a week, your child will have a 15-minute check-in with an assistant coach who will check in on your child’s progress towards their goals.

Our Advanced Coaching Program offers a fifty-minute coaching session and two check-ins per week.

4. A HabitCoach Parent Meeting Once-a-Month (30-minute sessions)

Once a month, you will meet with your child’s coach to learn about the work they have been doing with your child, and you will have the opportunity to provide input to their coach. For younger children, this may take place for 5 or 10 minutes after every session.

Parent meetings in our Advanced Coaching Program last for 50 minutes.

5. Access to HabitCoach Online Tools

HabitCoach also offers an online platform to help your child accomplish their goals, including the following:

• Habit-Builder Habit Cards – Flexible online goal-setting cards that make each goal very specific, including the action and the cadence of the goal.
• Video and Lesson Library – All subscribers gain access to an extensive library of videos, lessons, and articles to support your child’s growth.

6. Reporting

Parents and their children can choose to give parents access to coach notes, allowing them to follow the progress of their sessions.

7. Membership in Coach Your Own Child

You will receive membership in the Coach Your Own Child program, which will guide you in knowing what to say and do when real-life challenges present themselves on days and times when your child isn’t receiving coaching from their HabitCoach.

Start Today

If your child is struggling with procrastination, disorganization, emotional outbursts, or underperformance in school despite their intelligence, HabitCoach’s Executive Function Coaching Program offers a clear path forward.

By addressing the root cause—Executive Function skill deficits—our structured, evidence-based coaching helps children build the tools they need to succeed academically, improve their behavior, and manage ADHD symptoms.

With personalized support, online tools, and consistent progress check-ins, this program empowers your child to develop lifelong habits that bring out their true potential.

Take the first step toward helping your child move from chaos to calm—schedule your free consultation today.