#TeamCM: Leadership
Lisa Miller | Co-Director
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Lisa is a certified Transformational Coach and Director of Classroom Matters, specializing in supporting neurodivergent individuals and their families. With over 20 years of experience in education, she helps people build executive function skills and achieve personal, professional, and academic goals.
Lisa's background includes six years of teaching English and French at Berkeley High School, and a BA in French Literature from UC San Diego, where she also minored in English and spent a year studying at the Sorbonne. Her experience with SAT preparation programs deepened her expertise in test-taking strategies and learning approaches.
As Director of Classroom Matters since 2000, Lisa has developed comprehensive coaching programs for adults with ADHD and other learning differences, recognizing that executive function support doesn't end at graduation. She works with both neurodivergent individuals navigating life and work challenges and parents seeking to better understand and support their children while maintaining their own well-being.
Lisa designs executive function curriculum, provides professional development to Bay Area schools, and speaks regularly at educational conferences. In 2012, she founded AccessEd Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to closing the access gap for academic support services.
Lisa's coaching philosophy centers on helping people understand how their brains work and building systems that work with their natural patterns. She creates a space where neurodivergence is viewed as difference, not deficit.
Tatiana guerreiro Ramos | Co-Director
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As the other Director of Classroom Matters, Tatiana works alongside Lisa Miller as an educational advocate, consultant, and certified Transformational Coach.
Tatiana works with Bay Area schools and organizations to offer customized professional development for teachers and administrators to better support all students, especially those with learning differences. Tatiana also works closely with families to help them access support and services for their students at school through the 504 plan and IEP processes.
Since 2012, Tatiana has worked with Lisa to develop Classroom Matters’ executive function and test-prep curricula and to grow the parent-focused side of the business, which provides coaching and consulting to families navigating learning differences.
Additionally, Tatiana regularly appears as a guest speaker at conferences and on panels as an educator with deep expertise in ADHD, ASD, twice-exceptionality, PDA, and other learning differences, and how they show up at home and at school. Her personal experience with ADHD informs Tatiana’s honest and compassionate approach to student and parent coaching.
A polyglot (English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish) and a three-time National Memory Champion (the only woman to win the US Memoriad in its 30-year history), Tatiana enjoys crosswords, the New York Times Bee, keeping up with the news from her home country of Brasil, writing, and, most of all, spending time with her family.
Molly Gerstein Gales | Founder/Consultant
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Molly is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with a private psychotherapy practice in Berkeley that focuses on teens, parents, families and young adults. Molly founded Classroom Matters in 1998 at the request of a parent. In addition to her MAed in English education, an extensive background in teaching, advocacy work and coaching, Molly also has an MA in psychology and counseling. Her therapeutic approach is integrative and unique. She draws upon her years of experience developing and working at Classroom Matters, where she helped teens harness their capabilities, navigate their way through a maze of academic stress, social anxiety and manage family communication challenges. Molly combines her years of experience with clinical psychotherapy skills to help teens find tools that help them become productive, even when they feel lost. Molly helps her clients focus on what might be getting in the way. Social life and family dynamics loom large; all parts of their lives need tending to. Therapy is a collaboration, where her clients find ways to help themselves and also find some harmony at home, even during turbulent times. Find out more: www.authentictherapy.net.