S2E42: Designing Work for ADHD Brains in a Distracted World + guest Kit Slocum

Julie Legg is joined by Kit Slocum, neurodiversity lead and learning experience designer at Flown. With a background in psychology and behavioural neuroscience, and lived experience of ADHD, Kit brings both science and compassion to the conversation about focus, productivity, and nervous system regulation.

From going from failing grades to straight A’s after receiving accommodations, to questioning the systems that label distraction as a personal flaw, Kit reframes ADHD through the lens of nervous system science and the neurodiversity paradigm. She explains why modern environments are fundamentally overstimulating, why burnout is often the predictable result, and how small, intentional shifts can radically change how ADHDers experience work and life.

This episode offers insight into body doubling, nervous system check-ins, structured flexibility, and how leaders can design workplaces that actually support neurodivergent brains rather than forcing them to adapt.

Key Points from the Episode:

• Kit’s journey from academic struggle to thriving with accommodations
• The shift from the pathology paradigm to the neurodiversity paradigm
• Why distraction is often a dysregulated nervous system, not laziness
• How modern over-stimulation keeps ADHD brains in “on” mode
• Burnout as the end result of chronic nervous system activation
• Nervous system check-ins and micro-regulation strategies
• Why many productivity apps fail ADHDers
• Creating a personalised “toolbox” through experimentation
• Designing workplaces around curiosity and structured flexibility
• The Neural Passport: communicating how you work best
• Body doubling as a powerful focus strategy
• The importance of language — disability, difference, or superpower?
• Community as the most powerful ADHD tool of all

Links:

• WEBSITE: https://flown.com/
• INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/flownspace/
• LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flown/
• ADHD MASTERY PROGRAM: https://flown.com/adhd-focus-program

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