Leading Divergence: A Field Guide to Neurodivergent Leadership

Leading Divergence is a practical guide to neurodivergent leadership in technology.Written by a healthcare technology executive with ADHD, the book examines what divergent leadership actually costs and what it actually delivers, rejecting the framing of neurodivergence as a superpower.Part One: Leading as a divergent leader covers the four common traits of intensity, speed, depth, and sensitivity, the executive function tax, the stability stack of sleep, movement, food, and recovery, decision-making under cognitive noise, communication as architecture, and career development.Part Two: Leading divergent people covers psychological safety, communication protocols for spiky brains, performance conversations without shame, execution systems that survive variability, and the transition from individual contributor to manager.The book closes with a clinical interview with Dr. Michaela Kearney, DNP, MBA, PMHNP-BC, examining the framework from a psychiatric perspective.Intended for technology leaders with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, or other neurodivergent wiring, and for managers of neurodivergent engineers. Read more