Webinar:Understanding the Pattern: How ADHD+ Shaped My Leadership Identity

In this presentation, Luke shares his lived experience of receiving an ADHD diagnosis later in life and how ADHD has helped him explore strategies developed to “fit in,” minimise friction, and appear “normal.” These strategies, shaped long before he knew or suspected he was neurodivergent, became part of the foundations of his strengths and leadership identity.

Luke reflects on two decades of leading people in complex environments, where he showed natural instincts for creating inclusive environments where people are supported with clarity, individualisation and reducing cognitive load. Since diagnosis he has recognised a pattern between his strategies used, strengths developed and the systems he designed for others were the same ones his own brain needed to thrive.

In this session, Luke will explore:

• What the term ADHD+ means to him
• How neurodivergence unknowingly shaped his strengths and leadership identity
• How lived experience with neurodiversity before diagnosis highlighted different thinking preferences and communication approaches
• Insights from 16 months post‑diagnosis, including the invaluable role that coaching training has played

Participants are invited to reflect and provide comment around a guiding question for this presentation:

“What might shift if a differently wired brain is seen not as a problem to fix, but as a pattern to understand?”