You’re Asked To “Do More With Less.”

Translation: compress a 12-hour day into eight, smile about it, and please don’t bleed on the QBR.

Meanwhile your brain is a twin-turbo engine bolted to a wobbly shopping cart. It can win races but, only while working hard to prevent the wheels from falling off.

This page is for the people carrying outcomes, payroll, and reputations while quietly wrestling starts that stall, priorities that collide, and a nervous system that charges interest on every sprint. If that’s you, pull up a chair.

What Leadership-Level ADHD Actually Feels Like

• Starts don’t start. You know exactly what to do; your body refuses the launch sequence.

• Priority traffic jam. Five “top” items merge into one lane and you’re the only cop on duty.

• Delegation boomerangs. You hand it off; it returns twice as heavy and somehow still yours.

• Calendar as trap. Meetings multiply like Gremlins; decisions rarely emerge.

• Working memory leaks. You had the plan. Then someone knocked and it evaporated.

• Presence pressure. You speak fast, over-explain, or go blank - then replay it at 2 a.m.

• Politics tax. You can read the room; you resent the game but, the game still matters.

• Mask fatigue. You can pass for “effortless.” It costs more than you admit.

You’ve tried apps, color-coded calendars, a new notebook, and three different timer techniques. They help until Wednesday. Then the machine eats your lunch again.

Why Piecemeal Strategies Fail

Because you’re throwing tools at symptoms without knowing the system.

Leadership-level ADHD isn’t a vibes problem; it’s a wiring + load problem.

Your “executive functions” are the control panel. If you don’t know which dials are spiking, you’ll keep buying prettier buttons.

Piecemeal hacks break for three reasons:

1. No targeting.

   If initiation is the choke point, a new priority app won’t launch you. If working memory is leaking, “try harder to remember” is comedy. If time estimation is skewed, you can’t schedule your way out of fantasy math.

2. Strengths go unemployed.

   You already have overpowered functions - big-picture reasoning, verbal speed, pattern spotting. Random tips ignore those engines instead of routing work through them.

3. The bottleneck moves.

   Under pressure, the weak link shifts. Yesterday it was task initiation; today it’s response inhibition (you said yes to everything); tomorrow it’s regulation (you’re fried). Grab-bag tactics can’t adapt because they were never tied to the dashboard.

Concrete misfires you’ve probably met:

• Calendar overhaul when the real issue was start friction.

• Accountability buddy when the problem was unclear “done.”

• “Focus music” while context-switching shreds your working memory.

• New notebook religion when time sense keeps lying to you.

What works instead: a profile-first approach.

We map your EF pattern so the plan is strength-led and bottleneck-specific: initiation gets a reliable ignition sequence; working memory gets external state; prioritization gets lanes and gates; time gets honest estimates; inhibition gets guardrails; regulation gets fast resets you can run between rooms.

Fewer tools, more thrust, less smoke.

Meet Your Executive Functions

Executive functions (EFs) are the brain’s control system - the set of skills that help you decide, plan, start, focus, adapt, regulate emotions, and finish. When EFs work, life feels coordinated.

When they’re overloaded, everything feels harder than it “should.”

EFs coordinate goal selection, planning, sequencing, initiation, attention control, working memory, impulse control, error monitoring, and task completion.

In practice, that means identifying what matters, breaking it into steps, beginning on time, staying with the work, adjusting when conditions change, keeping emotions within a workable range, and closing loops so results are delivered when and how they’re needed.

When EFs are strained, it shows up as delays in starting, difficulty holding the plan in mind, losing the thread mid-task, inaccurate time estimates, switching tasks without finishing, stronger emotional swings under pressure, and incomplete outcomes.

None of this is a character flaw; it’s a coordination and bandwidth issue within these specific skills.