ADHD as a difference in cognition

An energetic and insightful TEDx talk from an ADHD entrepreneur.

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Andrew Lewis
ADHD Business Coach with 16,000+ hours of ADHD coaching experience

Great talk from an ADHD entrepreneur

Here is an enthusiastic talk from Stephen Tonti, talking about “ADHD As A Difference In Cognition, Not A Disorder”. He was a student speaker competition winner at TEDxCMU.

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Andrew Lewis is an Adult ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over 16,000 hours of experience in coaching over 600 adults with ADHD. Andrew helps entrepreneurs and creatives with ADHD thrive and achieve wellbeing and is always happy to have a free chat to discuss coaching. Andrew ran a major ADHD support group and even an ADHD diagnostic clinic for a while. Andrew is an adult ADHD Coach backed with business expertise from a twenty years career in software, from roles in programming, through marketing, sales at IBM, then to running a few software start-ups.

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