Resources
Free, practical tools for building supports that actually stick. Everything below is open access - no signup. Keep your credit card in your wallet.
Workflow Tools
Interactive tools that pair a quick diagnostic with a step-by-step setup script you can actually run.
Gmail AI Organizer
A short quiz that maps your inbox pain points, then generates a step-by-step script for setting up AI-assisted email triage in Gmail. If you hate your email, it's life changing.
Personal Operating Manual Builder
Build an interactive, shareable "how to work with me" guide with saved drafts and downloadable outputs. Share it with family, friends, and coworkers to avoid tension.
Win Page
A guided prompt tool for turning small wins into a printable page you can keep nearby. Easily our most popular tool!
Brain Mode Quiz
A short scenario-based quiz that points toward cognitive supports for focus, processing, memory, regulation, and follow-through.
Quality of Life Wheel
Rate satisfaction across key life areas to spot imbalances and pick understand what you're crushing and what's crushing you.
Role-Based Toolkits
Start from the role you are actually in. These pages route parents, educators, and practitioners toward the most useful free layer first.
Parent Toolkit
Home routines, school-meeting preparation, and first-step tools for families trying to understand EF friction.
Educator Toolkit
Classroom-facing supports, implementation tools, and educator-specific routes into the ExEF model.
IEP Goal Bank
Problem-first, grade-banded EF goal examples with data methods and legal guardrails.
Scope Of Practice Guide
Clear boundaries between EF coaching, therapy, school support, clinical care, and legal advocacy.
Support Pathways
Use this when the free layer points toward coaching, school translation, or direct consultation.
Printables
Downloadable files for coaching sessions, self-reflection, planning, and practical executive-function support. This section links to the actual files instead of gesturing at them.
Executive Functioning IEP Goal Bank
A practical drafting desk for measurable EF goals, grade-band examples, data methods, and IEP guardrails.
Executive Functioning Skills Checklist
A printable checklist for screening core executive-function skills and support needs.
Coaching Intake Form
A ready-to-use intake document for first sessions, consult calls, or onboarding packets.
Reproducible Forms Pack
Reusable planning and reflection forms for coaching homework, school supports, and self-management.
Personal Operating Manual Builder
An interactive alternative to a static POM PDF, with checkbox helpers, text prompts, and shareable downloads.
Full Printables Directory
Open the file directory for all current public ExEF printables, guides, and downloadable artifacts.
Reading & Source Trails
Use these when you want the deeper theory behind the tools.
Barkley Model Guide
Inhibition-first executive function science translated for coaches and educators.
Brown Model Tool
Activation, focus, effort, emotion, memory, and action monitoring as a practical pattern map.
Open Citations Directory
The larger source trail behind ExEF's models, methods, and public resources.
External Resources
Curated links to research, organizations, and tools we recommend.
Open EF Resources Directory
A curated collection of executive functioning resources, tools, and research.
Research & Citations
Source materials from Barkley, Brown, Dawson & Guare, Ward, and Harvard Center.
Barkley Model Guide
Comprehensive guide to Barkley's inhibition model of executive function.
ADDCA Public Resources
Official ADD Coach Academy resource hub with public-facing ADHD coaching resources and products.
ADDCA Public Directory
A public directory for finding ADHD coaches in your area with visible focus areas and training affiliations.
Source Access Notes
Some source links point to publishers, universities, professional organizations, or external PDFs that can move over time. If a link is unavailable, use the title and organization name in the open citations directory to locate the current legitimate source path.
You've seen the tools. Want help applying them?
Free resources show you the model. Coaching turns it into a system that actually holds - intake, environment redesign, and weekly iteration so the scaffolds survive bedlam on Taco Tuesday.