What if, instead of fighting to fit inside the box, you allowed yourself to step out?
Color Outside Coaching was founded by sisters Niki and Erin to help people do just that. After navigating the challenges of advocating for her son who has dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADHD, Niki saw a clear gap in available services and knew she could help. Erin, who has challenged the borders of every box she’s been put in, brings a background in business and legal advocacy. Together with Niki’s experience as a licensed social worker and career coach, they set out to create an empowering, practical, and impactful coaching service.
Meet our Coaches
Niki Yarnot, LASW
Niki is a licensed social worker, certified career coach, and mom to three boys. She is a passionate advocate for inclusion, accommodations, and acceptance of neurodiversity in school, career, and society at large. Through Niki’s experience advocating for her own son she began offering trainings on Dyslexia for any educator or parent willing to listen. Niki brings a warm, empathetic, and empowering approach to coaching with a focus on identifying and improving executive function deficits, providing resources, defining attainable goals, and helping clients reach those goals.
niki@coloroutsidecoaching.com
Heidi Peveto, LPC, CCC
Heidi is a licensed professional counselor and certified career counselor, who has served as both a mental health counselor and a career counselor since 2011. Throughout her career, she has supported countless neurodiverse adolescents and adults, and she firmly believes that neurodiversity brings extraordinary strengths to the world. As a proud dyslexic thinker herself, Heidi is passionate about helping neurodiverse young adults recognize their unique gifts, harness their “superpowers,” and build meaningful, rewarding career paths. Heidi brings extensive experience in cognitive and career assessment, using these tools to provide clear, valuable insight. She pairs this with a strengths-based, highly personalized approach—translating assessment results into practical guidance so that each individual’s decision-making process feels informed, grounded, and uniquely tailored to who they are.
heidi@coloroutsidecoaching.com
Client Reviews
I feel incredibly lucky to have found Niki—she brings a rare level of understanding and expertise to needs that are often overlooked. She exceeded my expectations, way, providing support that was both insightful and practical. Thanks to our work together, I finished the program with a clear sense of direction and renewed focus.
— TBThe Dyslexia for a Day Inservice was incredibly impactful for me as a teacher. It has changed how I look at the challenges my students face, and how I understand classroom behaviors.
— THNiki is amazing at working with people who need direction for where to head next in their lives. She is caring, practical, resourceful, and very skillful at helping them discover a life path direction and helps to plan what are the steps needed to get there. I would highly recommend her to work with anyone who is seeking direction.
— PC
The first year of college was much more challenging than any of us expected. Niki helped our son understand his mental capacity, set realistic and attainable goals, figure out which accommodations worked for him, how to use different tools to be successful in the classroom, and to understand and mange his anxiety. Self advocacy and adulting are hard; Niki provided the support to make them easier.
— MU