Board of Directors
Nancy Ratey, Ed. M., MCC, has a Masters Degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She is recognized internationally as one of the founders of and foremost authorities on personal and professional coaching for adults with ADHD. She has been active for the past two decades developing ADHD response programs and lecturing on issues related to ADHD and was influential in designing and implementing the first comprehensive training programs for ADHD coaches. Ratey is former President of the Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) and a former chair of the national committee that created Guiding Principles for AD/HD Coaching, the preeminent document in the field.
Patricia Quinn, M.D., is a developmental pediatrician in the Washington, D.C., area, specializing in child development and psychopharmacology. A graduate of Georgetown University Medical School, she has worked for over 30 years in the areas of ADD, ADHD, and learning disabilities, and she gives workshops nationwide on ADHD. Dr. Quinn has appeared on Lifetime Television's "New Attitudes,” the PBS show “To the Contrary,” and most recently on “Good Morning America,” discussing the challenges facing girls with ADHD. She appeared in “Outside In: A Look at Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder," which aired on PBS, and she produced and appears in a video for the National Attention Deficit Disorder Association: "ADD: Transition to College—Passport to Success."
Neil Peterson founder of the Edge Foundation, has served in a variety of leadership positions in the public and private sectors. He was the CEO of the public transportation agencies in the Seattle, Oakland, and Los Angeles metropolitan regions and the COO and CFO of a state’s Health and Human Services Agency where he was responsible for the state’s mental health programs and programs for the disabled. Peterson founded five companies, the latest of which, Flexcar, was purchased by Steve Case, founder of AOL. He has worked as a consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and he was Vice President of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. Peterson has two children with ADHD and dyslexia.