Every mind deserves a good map.
Tools, coaching, and practices for high-performing professionals and leaders with ADHD.
What do you need today?
A few minutes to reset
Focus audio, guided practices, and short resets. Free, in your browser.
Free to use ii.A practice for right now
Start Anywhere, forty-two practices you can open to any page.
Forthcoming iii.Someone in your corner
Coaching for you or your team, and speaking for your organization.
Taking requests iv.The evidence
The research behind every practice and tool.
Open v.Good company
An occasional letter. A gathering place to follow.
OpenStart Anywhere, extended.
Interactive tools that carry the workbook off the page, organized by what the moment calls for. Focus for deep work. Settle for before or after a demanding meeting. Reset for a short break in the middle of the day.
Everything runs in your browser, and nothing you do is saved.
A warm, quiet bed of sound with a slow swell, like water at the turn of the tide.
Slow, steady breathing, about ninety seconds.
Choose a frequency
Two close tones, one in each ear, create a gentle beat at the chosen frequency. Headphones required. These associations are common, but the research is mixed, so notice what each one does for you. Each plays until you stop it.
Six bells, about a minute and a half.
A bell, a prompt, a pause. Stay where you are.
A tray of fine sand to rake, smooth, and rake again. Place a few stones and work around them. Nothing is saved.
A juniper to turn, study, and shape. Choose exactly where each cut falls, and let new shoots grow in. Nothing is saved.
A mossy fence, a brick wall or a driveway, and a pressure washer. Pick a surface, a mess and a tip, then wash it back to clean. Pieces break away and drop or slide off. Nothing is saved.
Fireflies are sleeping under some of the leaves. Tap a leaf to lift it: its number tells you how many fireflies rest in the leaves around it. Hold a leaf to mark a firefly. Lift every empty leaf to wake them all; startle three and dawn comes early. Nothing is saved.
A workshop wall, a brass spout and a box of parts: planks, copper pipes, a funnel, a water wheel, a tipping bucket, a chime, a seesaw, a bamboo clacker, a little boat, and pieces a turning wheel can drive. Plants, a bird and a frog live by the pool. Build a path for the water and watch it run. Nothing is saved.
A green hilltop on California's Central Coast in spring, with oaks on the slopes and the hills rolling away. Turn the compass to change the time of day and the weather. Nothing is saved.
Between the stimulus and the response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose. Everything here is made for that space.
The design philosophy
Start Anywhere
A Workbook for High-Performing Professionals with ADHD
Forty-two practices for starting, focusing, managing time, staying steady, holding back, and finishing. Open to any page. Each is complete on its own.
For professionals and leaders who do excellent work and want the everyday parts to take less out of them.
We'll let you know when it's released. Paperback and Kindle.
StartAnywhere
A Workbook for High-Performing Professionals with ADHD Robert Henderson, MSODcomplete on its own
in any order
practices, one per section
for evidence and use
Inside the book
Full contents and sample pages coming soonBegin
Getting started, whenever you need to.
Focus
Attention that stays where you put it.
Time
Time you can see and plan around.
Steady
Composure when the pressure rises.
Hold
A pause between the impulse and the act.
Finish
Follow-through on what you start.
Try a practice from the book.
One complete practice from Start Anywhere, as a printable PDF.
Coaching and consultation.
Coaching for leaders at every level of an organization, for every kind of mind, neurodivergent and neurotypical alike. Tell us what you're working on, and we'll suggest the right way to begin.
Individual coaching
One-to-one work, from first-time managers to the executive suite.
Teams and organizations
Organization Development work for the people and systems around you.
Workshops and speaking
Sessions for your team, conference, or retreat.
The research behind the book.
Every practice, and the research behind it.
All sources
Choose a section of Start Anywhere on the compass to light up the research behind it.
Behind Start Anywhere
Adult ADHD research, coaching, and mindfulnessOne mark, two answers.
Every practice in the book and every interactive tool carries the same small mark. The needle shows the evidence. The line beneath it shows how well-traveled the path is.
You're in good company.
For now, a letter. Occasional, short, and useful: one practice, one reframe, and word of what is coming next. Two minutes to read.
Later, a gathering place for readers and users to compare notes and share what works.
No noise. Leave whenever you like.
Most of my work happens in one place: the gap between knowing what to do and doing it.
For more than fifteen years, I've coached leaders inside that gap. Some of the sharpest among them were quietly stuck, paralyzed by the conversation that never happened, or watching a brilliant plan stall after the first push.
Over time, I noticed that if you can help a mind find its focus, and then give it the right map and the right tools, problems it has carried for years start to resolve. People begin fixing things they had long since stopped believing they could.
I've found this to be profoundly true for leaders with ADHD.
I also discovered something else. When an exceptional leader breaks through, the impact never stops with them. Their team rises, their organization steadies, and the next leader learns what's possible.
That is why I created the Executive Atlas. My aim is for it to become the leading home for the maps, tools, and frameworks high-performing professionals with ADHD need to make the call, take the step, and lead with clarity.
Robert Henderson, MSOD
Aneeqa Ishtiaq, PhD, LPC
Specializing in ADHD, neurodivergence, and executive functioning
Aneeqa brings sixteen years of clinical practice to Start Anywhere. She earned her PhD at the University of Arkansas, where her doctoral research focused on mindfulness, and served there as a Senior Clinician. Her Fayetteville practice, Mindfulness Based Counseling, centers on ADHD, neurodivergence, and executive functioning. She serves as the book's clinical reviewer.