Find work that fits your brain.
Identify your best work fit, use your natural strengths, and take practical next steps.
A strengths-based career guide for adults with ADHD who want their next job to fit
Most adults with ADHD can list their weaknesses in detail: missed deadlines, late paperwork, the report that sat untouched for three weeks. Ask them to name their professional strengths and the list gets short, even though they're often the person who diagnosed the problem first, stayed calm in the crisis, or learned the new system in a weekend.
The ADHD Career Pivot helps these professionals identify their ADHD strengths, put them into words, and use that list to screen every future job offer, promotion, and career change. You'll finish with a written ADHD Career Fit Profile that reminds you exactly what your brain does well, what drains it, and what a role has to include for you to thrive for the long term.
Inside you'll find:
- Six high-leverage ADHD strengths, including rapid pattern recognition, creative synthesis, crisis composure, improvisational problem-solving, big-picture thinking, and fast learning cycles, with workplace examples for each
- The strength, skill, or survival skill test, a simple way to tell the work that energizes you apart from the work you do well at a cost that leads to burnout
- A Career Pattern Map that turns your job history into data, showing which tasks, managers, and environments brought out your best work
- The INCUP motivation framework (interest, novelty, challenge, urgency, purpose), used to pinpoint what drives your focus
- A career non-negotiables list covering autonomy, meeting load, feedback speed, sensory environment, and communication style
- Your one-page ADHD Career Fit Profile, a personal filter for evaluating job descriptions, lateral moves, and promotions
- How to translate ADHD traits into job categories that pay for them, such as turnaround management, solutions architecture, and complex sales
- Job posting decoding and reverse-interview questions that reveal whether a role will use your strengths or bury them in admin
- Self-advocacy scripts and workplace accommodations for protecting the conditions your strengths depend on, even if you don't tell them the official diagnosis
- 19 printable worksheets and templates, including every strengths and fit exercise in the book
This book is written for mid-career professionals, adults with a late ADHD diagnosis, and anyone ready to stop judging themselves by standard performance reviews built for a different kind of brain. Career coaches, ADHD coaches, and therapists will find exercises ready to use with clients.
Learn which strengths belong at the center of your next job search.
What readers are saying
“ADHD Career Pivot is a friendly, practical guide for anyone who feels stuck at work. The author doesn't shame readers for struggling. Instead, she helps you spot your real strengths, then match them to a work style that actually fits. I liked the clear steps and the focus on next actions, not vague motivation. The book reads like a supportive conversation, with helpful examples for planning changes without burning out. If you're ready for a calmer, smarter career direction, this book can give you that push.”