The ADHD Skills Lab

Most productivity advice for ADHD is written for people who just need a nudge. If you have ADHD, you need something more honest than that.
Ari Tuckman holds a PsyD and an MBA, has authored five books on ADHD, and has spent over 40,000 hours in clinical work with adults. He co-chairs the largest ADHD conference in the US and has been quoted in the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post.
In this conversation, Ari breaks down what productivity actually means for ADHD brains, why "don't get in trouble" is not a good enough goal, and how business owners can use external structure and the right people to focus on where they add the most value.
Connect With Ari Tuckman:  www.DrAriTuckman.com.
What We Cover
Why simplistic productivity advice fails ADHD adults and what to look for instead
The difference between managing ADHD to survive versus building a life worth having
How to hire an assistant who will act as external executive function, not just a scheduler
The role of reputation-building when ADHD makes consistency hard
Ari's "things lead to things" principle and how it applies to business growth
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

You've launched things that seemed solid, only to watch them unravel for reasons that felt obvious afterward. That's not a judgment problem. For ADHD founders, retrospective clarity comes naturally. The pre-mortem is a tool that pulls that clarity forward, to the start of a project, when fixing problems is still cheap.
Skye and Robbie break down the pre-mortem method, developed by cognitive psychologist Gary Klein and later popularized by Daniel Kahneman, and explain why it fits ADHD-wired brains in particular. ADHD founders tend to communicate broad vision without the full set of dependencies, leaving teams misaligned and triggering micromanagement loops. They're also prone to hyperfocused tunneling in the wrong direction. The pre-mortem interrupts both patterns before they cost you.
They also cover how to use it as a minimum viable test. Before a prototype, before a hire, before a pivot, spend an afternoon stress-testing the idea. Sometimes the right output is: don't do this.
What We Cover
Why ADHD founders naturally access retrospective clarity, and how to use it at project start instead of after the fact
How incomplete vision communication creates micromanagement loops, and what the pre-mortem does to close that gap
The novelty bias and hyperfocus tunneling problem, and why planning for failure acts as a directional check
How to run a pre-mortem solo, with a team, or with AI, including a specific reverse prompting approach
Why a half-day pre-mortem with AI or a mentor counts as your minimum viable test before any build
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Sitting in a parking lot after leaving the bankruptcy attorney's office, $600,000 in debt written off, home gone, Galel Fajardo told himself no one would ever hire him again.
Galel Fajardo is a business coach, digital marketing consultant, and fractional CMO with 23 years of entrepreneurial experience and a Master's in Performance Psychology. He specializes in helping high-performing entrepreneurs, especially those with ADHD, whose businesses look successful from the outside and feel like a prison from the inside. His clients have doubled their revenue, with one scaling from $2.5M to $10.1M in three years, not by working harder, but by building the right structure first. He coaches from the only credential that actually matters: he has lived every problem he teaches.
What he learned through that experience, his ADHD diagnosis, and years of coaching shapes how he thinks about execution, delegation, and the internal stories that stall growth.
This episode covers the specific frameworks Galel uses in his own business and with his clients.
What We Cover:
Why the systems that work in your 20s tend to fail once a business reaches real complexity and what to replace them with
How Galel uses AI as a ruthless critic rather than a yes-machine to pressure-test ideas before committing resources
The structural reason ADHD brains are strong activators but need an external check to finish and execute
Why transparency about ADHD with your team tends to improve delegation rather than undermine authority
How Galel identifies the belief underneath an activation problem and works with clients to shift it
Connect With Galel Fajardo Website: https://www.galel.com
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

You've built systems before. You probably built them well. The problem wasn't creating them. The problem was maintaining them once the novelty wore off.
Wednesday's episode explored why ADHD founders often struggle with operational consistency. This episode covers the structural solution.
The systems integrator role sits between the ADHD founder and the rest of the business. It captures ideas, filters priorities, protects the team from constant pivots, and builds the documentation that turns founder insight into repeatable execution.
Skye and Robbie break down the four functions of the role, how it differs from an EA or COO, how it scales as a business grows, and the hiring mistakes that cause founders to recreate the same bottlenecks they're trying to solve.
What We Cover
The four functions of a systems integrator and how they differ from a standard EA or COO role
How raw creative output gets processed through pre-agreed prioritization filters before it reaches the team
Why the role acts as a gravitational buffer against novelty-seeking attention wells pulling the team off course
How the role scales from solopreneur to COO-led team
The three hiring mistakes ADHD founders make when trying to solve the structural problem
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/