Cheryl Adams is a coach, advocate, and changemaker committed to empowering families and individuals navigating developmental, intellectual, and mental health challenges. As the founder of ADAMS Consulting LLC™ and a Family Peer Support Specialist, Cheryl transforms over 30 years of lived and living experience into practical guidance, coaching strategies, and systems-level advocacy.
Through her initiatives—The Metamorphosis Movement™, CareShift Coaching™, and the MindShare Youth Empowerment Team™ – she helps families and youth move from surviving to thriving. Cheryl equips caregivers with tools to build confidence, shift perspectives, and turn their stories into strength, while creating spaces where neurodiverse voices are centered in driving system improvements.
Her mission is rooted in empowerment: walking beside families, breaking down barriers, and fostering collaborative solutions that honor lived experience…because she ‘gets it’.

Join The Metamorphosis Movement™ – supporting families from surviving to thriving, and everything in between.