🧠 Why, If You’re Neurodivergent in Tech, You Need The Leadership Leap

“We weren’t made to follow someone else’s path.

We were made to build our own —sometimes sideways, sometimes spiraled, but always real.”

If you’re neurodivergent in tech

you’ve probably already heard the phrase

“just use your strengths”

from people who don’t understand how much masking it takes to survive the day.

You’ve been told you’re too intense.

Too quiet.

Too analytical.

Too sensitive.

Too honest.

Too something.

You’ve sat through meetings that drained you.

Held back insights because you weren’t sure how they’d land.

Felt the guilt of needing silence when others called for collaboration.

And yet…

You still showed up.

You still delivered.

You still care, deeply.

This book isn’t here to “fix” you.

It’s here to give you tools, language, and courage to lead in ways that actually fit your brain.

Because we don’t need more polished replicas.

We need more radically authentic originals, like you.

Here’s what your world might look like, and how The Leadership Leap helps you lead through it:

Struggling with sensory overload, unclear meetings, or last-minute changes

You enter a room and notice everything.

The humming light. The overlapping voices. The sticky chair.

And while others seem to thrive in chaos, you freeze, fumble, or fight.

📖 Chapter 6: Rooted to Thrive

→ Helps you design work that respects your sensory rhythm, not suppresses it.

Frequently misunderstood as rude, intense, or distracted

You weren’t being distant, you were focusing.

You weren’t interrupting, you were afraid you’d forget.

You weren’t zoning out, your mind was connecting patterns no one else saw.

📖 Chapter 9: Chosen Growth

→ Helps you name your responses and reframe how you show up, with kindness for your wiring.

Masking constantly to fit neurotypical norms, leading to burnout

You’ve perfected the head-nod, the strategic silence, the smile.

But inside, you’re counting down the minutes until you can be alone again.

📖 Chapter 5: Shedding Skin

→ Offers tools to drop the mask slowly, and show up as the full version of yourself, safely and steadily.

Feeling deep passion, but struggling with executive function

You’re excited. Inspired. Ready.

Until it’s time to start.

Then suddenly: distractions, overplanning, avoidance.

And the self-judgment spirals.

📖 Chapter 8: Unplanted Seeds

→ Helps you untangle the expectations from the essential and create space for real action.

Wanting to be appreciated for your unique problem-solving

You don’t think linearly.

You see edge cases.

You detect patterns.

But sometimes your brilliance gets buried under misunderstandings.

📖 Chapter 12: Fuel for Impact

→ Teaches you how to translate your internal world into external value and make your talents visible.

Facing rigid processes that don’t match your natural flow

The morning standup? Too early.

The Jira board? Too boxy.

The sprint rhythm? Not your tempo.

You’re not trying to rebel, you just think differently.

📖 Chapter 6: Rooted to Thrive

→ Helps you identify how to co-create systems that support sustainable neurodivergent productivity.

Wishing for clear structure, acceptance, and communication

Unspoken rules are exhausting.

Unclear feedback loops trigger rumination.

Vague expectations are where your confidence goes to die.

📖 Chapter 13: Boundaries with Backbone

→ Gives you language and practices to ask for what you need without apology or over-explaining.

Often your strengths (e.g. hyperfocus, pattern recognition) are overlooked or exploited

You’re great at solving the crisis, so people hand you all the crises.

You hyperfocus, so they give you the impossible.

You think systemically and get left out of the system conversations.

📖 Chapter 18: The Shape-Shifter’s Edge

→ Helps you protect your energy, leverage your strengths, and reshape the narrative about what leadership looks like.

You don’t need to be less “you” to lead.

You need language.

You need clarity.

You need spaces where your mind isn’t a burden, it’s a blueprint for brilliance.

🐉 The Leadership Leap doesn’t ask you to conform.

It invites you to unmask, integrate, and lead like only you can.

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