How to turn ADHD into an advantage in the workplace

Electra Business Breakfast – B2B networking – Sponsored by Electra

Nau mai haere mai Electra Business Breakfast is pleased to welcome Annie Romanos, an executive and business coach, ADHD champion and changemaker based in Kāpiti, who has ADHD. She supports mission-driven neurodiverse and neurotypical professionals to leverage their unique wiring so they can step into who they and thrive.

As employers, colleagues, friends and whānau, how do we go about mitigating the challenges and dialling up the good bits that ADHD can be, in the workplace and in our personal lives? Learning how to manage the challenges and practice new skills is not straightforward for those with ADHD. Being in a safe place, being recognised, supported, and empowered is not always a given for someone with ADHD.

Annie will take us through her own personal journey and some of the best ways of working with ADHD employees. She will also touch on remote working and the concept of body doubling as many are continuing to work from home permanently full time or part time. ADHD can be isolating when working remotely, so how can employers work differently with a remote team to foster happy people and achieve good productivity?

Annie may also share briefly about the recent whānau experience of fleeing the eruption of war in Israel on 7 October. You can read her story as told by Cloe Willetts in the latest edition of New Zealand Woman’s Day >>

See you there! Book early to avoid disappointment.

WELLNESS UPDATE

We encourage being fully boosted for you, your whānau, your community, and please don’t attend if you are feeling unwell. If circumstances changed and Covid prevented us from operating, we will reschedule first and then transfer or refund tickets as needed. We look forward to seeing you all soon.

About the Speaker: Annie Romanos

Executive & Business Coach, ADHD Champion and Changemaker

Annie Romanos Electra Business Breakfast

Annie is an ICF-accredited executive and ADHD coach in Aotearoa. She is proudly ADHD and the parent of an ADHD teen.

Her late diagnosis at 49 was a profoundly life changing moment and represented a missing link after years of “underachieving”, observing her high performing clients surpass her and not being able to figure out why.

Since learning more about her ADHD, being coached intensively and gaining professional ADHD coaching development, Annie wholeheartedly believes that ADHD can be an ‘adhdvantage’. She believes that while you might have ADHD for life, ADHD doesn’t need to be a life sentence.

While Annie has been coaching for over 8 years, she is one of New Zealand’s first executive ADHD coaches, with her own practice, as well as working with a recently launched ADHD-centric service for New Zealanders called Beehyve.

Annie’s clients don’t tend to present as ADHD. They’re often outwardly “successful” individuals – lawyers, doctors, scientists and business owners – who are quietly struggling under the weight of their symptoms, but who want to learn to manage their ADHD and leverage their neuro-giftedness in their work and life.

And while ADHD is widely considered a deficiency in attention, she likes to remind people of the New Zealand Māori definition of ADHD – aroreretini which means “attention goes to many things”.

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