Roni K. Kean
our founder
Roni K. Kean brings 25 years of HR and Organizational Development expertise to her work creating truly inclusive environments for neurodivergent individuals. What began as a career in Employee Relations, Leadership Development, and Performance Management evolved into a focused mission: transforming how workplaces, communities, and service providers understand and support neurodivergent individuals.
As a certified health and wellness coach specializing in neurodivergent adults (NPI# 1972396505), Roni works to bring systemic change and empower individuals. She partners with organizations to redesign their processes, trains first responders on effective communication with neurodivergent community members, equips therapists to better serve neurodivergent clients, and coaches neurodivergent professionals navigating their careers and lives.
While therapy can help individuals process experiences and support emotional wellbeing, Roni’s coaching focuses on practical implementation. She helps neurodivergent individuals build personalized work systems, strengthen self-advocacy skills, develop effective communication strategies, and navigate workplace dynamics authentically. This practical, strengths-based approach helps individuals create sustainable success in environments that were not always designed with them in mind.
Roni’s approach is grounded in a simple belief: when you design systems that work for neurodivergent people, you create clarity, flexibility, and accessibility that benefits everyone. Her work isn’t about checking boxes or one-size-fits-all accommodations, it’s about fundamentally rethinking how we communicate, support, and include people across every setting.
Divergent Support Services was created to build a bridge between neurodivergent people and a world that was not designed for them. Roni’s work continues that mission by helping both individuals through coaching, and organizations create genuine understanding, effective communication, and meaningful inclusion.
What’s the difference?
Psychiatrist
Medical Evaluation and Treatment
- Diagnoses mental health and neurological conditions
- Prescribes and manages medication
- Evaluates co-occurring conditions
- Supports symptom management
Primary Focus:
Medical diagnosis and treatment
Therapist
Emotional Wellbeing and Healing
- Supports emotional health
- Helps process experiences and challenges
- Develops coping and relationship skills
- Addresses anxiety, depression, burnout, and trauma
Primary Focus:
Mental health, emotional wellbeing, and healing
Neurodivergent Coach
Practical Implementation & Growth
- Builds executive functioning skills
- Develops self-advocacy strategies
- Creates systems for success
- Provides accountability and practical support
While therapy often focuses on healing and processing experiences, coaching focuses on implementation, helping people turn insight into action through practical tools, strategies, and sustainable systems.
Primary Focus:
Goals, skills, self-advocacy, and practical implementation
Divergent Support Services
All the things neurodivergent coach does, PLUS:
- Empowers neurodivergent individuals
- Coaches professionals through workplace and life challenges
- Trains workplaces, schools, clinicians, and first responders
- Improves communication and understanding
- Helps organizations remove barriers
- Creates inclusive, accessible systems
Unlike traditional support models that focus primarily on the individual, Divergent Support Services works with both people and the systems around them.
Primary Focus:
Goals, skills, self-advocacy, and practical implementation, and bridging neurodivergent people and the systems they navigate