#28: Navigating Neurodiversity: A Strengths-Based Future of ADHD with Grace Koelma

Welcome back! I'm your host, Mariane Power, and I'm excited to be bringing you Season 4 of the podcast, featuring conversations with people from diverse minds, bodies, cultures and backgrounds, in a series that explores what it takes to create ‘Inclusive Impact’. 

Each of our guests brings unique lived experience insights and science backed strategies that will help us all to imagine and create an inclusive future of learning, work and leadership. 

To offer context, this episode includes a bonus 15 minute excerpt from a keynote that introduces the Impact Mindset Theory and Framework which resulted from research conducted by The Posify Group, and that inspired this series. 

Then, you'll meet our first guest, Grace Koelma, Education Specialist, Certified Breathwork & Meditation Teacher and Founder of Future ADHD, who was diagnosed with ADHD at 33. 

Grace shares her own transformative journey, from her late diagnosis of ADHD to becoming an entrepreneur who's created a globally recognised ADHD friendly digitial planner. Women with ADHD will find a kindred spirit in Grace, as she shares both the joys and struggles that colour her lived experience of learning, working, leading and parenting as a neurodivergent woman. 

Need an inspiring and inclusive digital planner to capture your big ideas and manage your schedule? Buy the FutureADHD Digital Planner here 

In this episode, we dive into:

02:21: The Impact Mindset, and the 6 pillars of individual and cultural characteristics reported by organisations leading the way in delivering IMPACT

11:09: The importance of transformational opportunities at work, and the emergence of Transcendent Leadership

15:14: Grace's journey into entrepreneurship

33:21: A considered conversation around the need for educational reform to better support diverse minds

45:07: Self-criticism, shame cycles and the instances in ADHD

52:18: The future of learning, and how it relates to our neurodivergent communities

56:22: The importance of self-compassion 

LINKS FOR THE SHOW:

For a full list of resources and links to today’s shownotes, see the episode webpage here 

Shop the FutureADHD digital planner here

Join Messy Magic, an online program supporting women with ADHD here

To discover how The Posify Group can support your school or workplace in achieving its diversity and inclusion learning and development goals, visit www.theposifygroup.com.au

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