ADD / ADHD Strategies for Tech Startups Workshop

October 13, 2023 8:00 am PDT
Join us to discover how to support your team members with ADD / ADHD or other neurodivergent conditions to increase your company productivity, profits, job satisfaction, team communication, employee retention, and more!

About This Event

Discover How to Grow Better & Faster
by Supporting Your Neurodivergent Team Members

Over 366 Million Adults Have ADHD
including Over 20% of Tech Employees.

How well do you understand and support
your team members with ADD / ADHD?

While tech companies attract a much higher number of neurodivergent leaders and team members with ADD (Inattentive ADHD) and ADHD than other industries, most startups struggle with identifying, understanding, supporting, and managing their neurodivergent team members.

In the gaming industry, the issues are even bigger. A recent viral social post reveals what it’s like:

Hopefully, this isn’t as bad in your workplace. Even so, your company is probably paying unnecessary costs, losing great employees, and losing efficiencies by not understanding how neurodivergent team members think and work.

This is a common problem because we haven’t been educated to understand how neurotypical brains and neurodivergent brains have different operating systems.

You wouldn’t expect an Android phone to be able to do certain things that only exist in an Apple iOS operating system, but we expect people with neurodivergent brains to be able to do neurotypical tasks well because neurotypical systems are considered to be the ‘normal’ way that ‘everyone’ does something.

Treating your team members with ADD / ADHD brains as if they should work in the same ways as your neurotypical team members causes chronic anxiety, miscommunications, skewed expectations, and loss of valuable people. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Discover why forward-thinking companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, IBM, SAP, Dell, and many others believe that having neurodivergent employees is a competitive advantage, and supporting them is both crucial and fundamental for your success.

Join us at Venture Mechanics Coworking Studio of Bellevue to learn best practices and have your questions answered. You’ll discover how to easily develop systems to improve your team’s communication and collaboration between neurotypical and neurodivergent team members.

The Agenda
8:00 am –Registration and networking
8:30 am – Interactive presentation
9:15 am – Break
9:25 am – Breakout sessions creating solutions
9:45 am – Q&A
10:00 am – Workshop closing

The Benefits

  • Strengthen your management skills to support team members with ADHD and neurodivergent brains
  • Understand and retain more of your most innovative and valuable team members
  • Lower your hiring and training costs by hiring smarter and managing better
  • Develop communication skills proven to bridge the gap between neurotypical and neurodiverse communication styles
  • Increase your company productivity, job satisfaction, team communication, and profits
Who Should Attend
Startup Founders and Leaders
Team Managers
Hiring Managers
HR Professionals
Neurodivergent Team Members

Speakers

Brett Greene

Brett Greene is the Founder of the New Tech Northwest community of 60,000+ technologists as well as an Executive Coach helping neurodivergent tech professionals create fulfilling high-impact lives, companies, and careers. His life’s journey with ADHD has included holding an MA in Counseling Psychology, producing hundreds of event experiences, working with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame artists, being a lifelong meditator, a professional DJ, a serial entrepreneur, an Advisory Board Member for SXSW Pitch, a Top 35 Social Media Power Influencer in Forbes, and speaking at the White House. Many of his startup and enterprise clients have experienced extraordinary personal and professional growth and fulfillment. Some have also enjoyed successful exits including one being acquired by a Fortune 50 company. Brett offers individual coaching, group coaching, as well as professional training.
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