Late diagnosis didn't fix me. It explained me.
For most of my career, I assumed I was the variable that needed fixing. I'd build something brilliant, then watch it wobble, and I'd blame myself for not being more consistent, more organized, more like everyone else seemed to be.
Then I was diagnosed. And the story changed. The problem was never my capability. It was that every system I'd been handed was designed for a brain that processes, prioritizes, and executes differently than mine. Once I saw that, I couldn't unsee it, and I started building systems that worked with how I'm wired instead of against it.
Years of assuming I was the problem: too scattered, too inconsistent, too much.
A diagnosis that reframed everything: it was never me, it was the design.
I build the structures I needed first, for other neurodivergent founders.
What feels like a personal failing is usually misalignment. And misalignment is a design problem, not a character flaw.
That's the work I do now. I founded CORE Advisory Group because the same pattern that played out in my own life plays out in companies every single day: brilliant, pattern-recognizing, fast-moving leaders running organizations on structures that quietly work against them, and then blaming the people when execution slips.
I bring a clear, structured perspective that identifies what's actually breaking down, so conversations move from assumptions to truth, and from truth to a business that can finally run without depending on one person to hold it all together.
