Anna Dafna
ADHD, Executive Function & High Performance Specialist
Founder of the FOCUS Framework, Female Standard and the ADHD Supper Club
✍️ Articles · 🎙 Podcasts · 🎤 Speaking
📍 London-based | Available for media interviews, press writing, opinion pieces, podcasts, and speaking engagements internationally.
For enquiries and collaborations, please get in touch.
Where Greek philosophy meets the study of the mind
Born in Athens, Greece, and based in London, Anna Dafna brings a distinct voice to conversations on ADHD, executive function, identity, performance, and relationships.
Her work connects ancient Greek philosophical thinking with modern psychology and the study of the mind - clarifying how people think, decide, and act.
From soma (body) to logos (reason), kairos (timing), and arete (excellence), her work reframes human behaviour through both a biological and philosophical lens - focusing on how attention, behaviour, and identity are shaped in real life.
Most people already know what to do.
What they lack is the ability to translate that into consistent action.
It’s not a lack of intelligence.
It’s a failure of integration.
Integration is what turns insight into execution.
Anna contributes writing and commentary on neurodiversity, metacognition, identity, and human behaviour, and is available for media interviews, press writing, opinion pieces, podcast conversations, and speaking engagements internationally.
BIO
Anna Dafna is a London-based psychologist (GMBPsS), executive function specialist, speaker, and writer.
She is known for bridging science and soul - physiology, psychology, and philosophical inquiry.
Her work focuses on the relationship between executive function, emotional regulation, identity, and behaviour - particularly in those who are capable, but consistently underperforming.
She works internationally with adults, students, founders, CEOs, and high-net-worth individuals.
Anna is the creator of the FOCUS Framework for Executive Function Integration, and the founder of both The Female Standard - a model for women focused on identity, self-trust, and decision-making - not empowerment - but standards, and the ADHD Supper Club, a curated salon-style experience for deeper conversations around neurodiversity, identity, and modern life.
Her work centres on closing the gap between insight and execution.
Anna contributes to conversations across ADHD, neurodiversity, performance, relationships, and modern identity, and is available for media interviews, press writing, opinion pieces, podcasts, and speaking engagements.
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Credentials & Recognition
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Most Supportive ADHD & Executive Function Coach - Business Elite Awards 2024
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Best Diversity, Inclusion & Leadership Training - Business Awards UK 2023
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Brainz 500 Global Honouree - 2021
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World Women Leaders - Who is Who Greece 2003
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MEd Educational & Counselling Psychology
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QTS - Qualified Teacher Status
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Advanced ADHD & Executive Function Accreditation
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Leadership, Life Coaching and NLP Certifications
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Licensed Provider - Safe & Sound + Rest & Restore Protocol
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Master Member EMCC | Graduate Member BPS
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Reiki Master
PODCAST APPEARANCES
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
⚙️ Executive Function: From Insight to Real-World Performance
Integrating flow, structure, identity, and strengths into consistent
execution.
💃 The Female Standard & Arete
Identity, self-trust, decision-making, and the pursuit of excellence in women.
🎓 The Myth of the “Good Student”
Why intelligent ADHD students struggle in systems built for compliance, not curiosity.
⏳ The ADHD Mind & Kairos
Rethinking time, pressure, and performance.
🧠 Soma Before Strategy: Why Physiology Beats Psychology
The body sets the state. The mind can shift it - in unity.
🌬 Beyond Regulation: The Nervous System & Performance
Why state, not strategy, determines focus, behaviour, and outcomes.
🧠 Logos: The Power of Metacognition
How thinking about your thinking shapes how you decide, act, and perform.
💘 Love, Attachment & Emotional Patterns
How people choose, relate, and repeat.
🔥 From Burnout to Eudaimonia
Moving from over-functioning and coping to thriving.
⚡ From Insight to Action (Praxis)
Why knowing is not doing - and how to close the gap.
🧭 Future Self, Identity & Telos
How identity and direction shape behaviour and long-term outcomes.
💼 Neurodiversity & Leadership
Rethinking performance, decision-making, and advantage in complex environments.
