The ADHD Skills Lab
Things are starting to fall through the cracks.
Not because you're not trying, but because the systems everyone recommends weren't built for a brain like yours.
The ADHD Skills Lab is for business owners with ADHD whose responsibilities have grown past simple solutions. Each week, Skye Waterson and guests share research-backed strategies and real-world systems to help you reduce the chaos, make consistent progress, and stop reinventing the wheel every time life gets complex.
No "just use a planner." No productivity hacks that last a week. Just honest, practical support from someone who has spent years researching, testing, and refining what actually works for adult ADHD.
Skye is the founder of Unconventional Organisation, a former academic diagnosed with ADHD during her PhD, and the author of over 50 articles read by more than 250,000 people worldwide. She has worked with senior leaders, business owners, academics, and professionals navigating ADHD in high-responsibility roles, and was invited to share her research with both the Australian and New Zealand Government.
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The ADHD Skills Lab
Why ADHD Brains Struggle With Projects
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Presented by Understood.org
You can handle individual tasks all day. But the moment something becomes a project, everything slows down.
Research into ADHD executive functioning suggests the difference often comes down to planning demands, not motivation or intelligence.
In this episode, Skye and Robbie break down what these experiments reveal about ADHD and why complex projects require building a sequence before starting. That requirement can create real cognitive friction for many ADHD brains.
On Friday, we’ll look at the practical systems that reduce this planning load and make complex work easier to execute.
What We Cover
- Why ADHD often struggles more with projects than tasks
- What “tower task” planning experiments reveal about ADHD
- Why working memory and inhibition appear most consistently affected
- Why ADHD is a performance issue rather than a knowledge issue
- How planning demands make complex work cognitively inefficient
If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.
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P.S. If your ADHD symptoms turn every business day into chaos, with unfinished tasks piling up and revenue stuck, it's not you. It's your operating system. Click here to book an operational strategy session with Skye.