When I first suspected I had ADHD about 8 years ago, after getting my hands on the “Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale” screener for ADHD, I kept telling myself that “it’s too damn hard to get good help as an adult with ADHD!”

Since that day I’ve wanted to make it easier for other adults with ADHD get the help they need, whatever that may be. This became the driving purpose behind my starting my ADHD coaching practice and in getting involved in the ADHD Coaches organization, where I have served on the board of directors for the last four years and where I am currently president-elect.

One thing we coaches know is that distressed populations tend to present more in coaching than those who aren’t distressed, and I believe this also applies to adults ADHD. One reason why I was prompted to start Leading with ADHD was because of the number of clients I met in corporate coaching contexts who painted the picture of their ADHD for me, without yet knowing what it was they were grappling with. After I surfaced the possibility that they might also have ADHD, the vast majority of those clients went on to be diagnosed.

So I decided I need to do something to help other (non-ADHD informed) coaches identify the possibility of ADHD in their clients and to help those clients get the help they need. To that end, I created the presentation “What Coaches Need to Know about Adult ADHD”, and I’ve presented this to several groups of executive and leadership development coaches.

Please feel free to use this information in ways that are helpful to you or others you know, and if you have a group of coaches you’d like me to present this to, please do get in touch.