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Esther Bangura is a UK-based ADHD & Money Specialist, financial coach, and researcher focused on the intersection of neurodivergence and financial wellbeing. She provides expert commentary on ADHD, stress spending, executive dysfunction, debt cycles, and workplace burnout among professionals and business owners.
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About Esther Bangura
Esther Bangura is a UK-based financial coach, researcher, and speaker specialising in neurodivergent money management. Her work focuses on the intersection of ADHD, executive dysfunction, workplace stress, and financial wellbeing.
Following a late ADHD diagnosis, Esther recognised how masking, stress spending, and inconsistent systems had contributed to repeated debt cycles despite earning a stable income. Rather than relying on traditional budgeting advice, she developed practical, brain-aligned financial structures that reduced impulsive spending and created long-term stability. She later became completely debt-free.
Esther now works with neurodivergent professionals, students and business owners who feel financially capable yet overwhelmed. Through 1:1 coaching, research, workshops, and her podcast, she helps clients build calm, shame-free money systems that account for ADHD tax, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, autism, low-capacity days, and nervous system regulation.
She is the founder of the UK Neurodivergent Money Report, one of the few studies exploring financial wellbeing among late-diagnosed and self-identifying neurodivergent adults.
Areas of Expertise & Commentary
- ADHD and neurodivergence in adults, particularly late diagnosis
- Financial wellbeing for neurodivergent professionals
- Executive function, burnout, and stress in the workplace
- Neurodiversity inclusion in financial and public services
- The intersection of race, gender, and neurodivergence
- Why traditional money advice fails neurodivergent adults
- Masking, workplace pressure, and long term health impact
- Supporting late-diagnosed adults in professional and personal life
Awards and Recognition
London Metropolitan University · 16 April 2026
Esther won first place in the Commercial Category for Neurodivergent Money Coaching, recognised for supporting neurodivergent adults with practical, tailored and stigma-free financial guidance.
"The standard this year has been exceptional, and it is exciting to see ventures with such strong potential for both commercial success and social impact." — Alexandra Banks, Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor, London Metropolitan University
Speaking and Panel Appearances
Hilton Croydon, London · 15 August 2026
Panel: The Future is African and Female: Women in Politics, Policy and the Fight for Representation
Esther spoke alongside Dr Eleanor Nwadinobi and Councillor Patience Bentu as the only panellist addressing neurodiversity and money. She made the case that representation is not only about who gets elected. It is about who gets counted.
Her extended UK research reaching Black and ethnic minority neurodivergent communities resulted in a final study of 368 adults across the UK, with findings that mirrored those published by StepChange Debt Charity five months later.
"You do not have to sit in a policy room to move policy. You can gather the evidence yourself and knock on the door with it."
Directory Listings and Partnerships
pocketsmith.com/coaching
Podcast & Research
Host of the Neurodivergent Money Management podcast, focused on ND-friendly strategies for high-earning neurodivergent adults.
Founder of the UK Neurodivergent Money Management Report, a research study exploring the financial experiences of late-diagnosed and self-identifying neurodivergent adults.
📩 info@estherbangura.com