For software engineers with ADHD who are tired of being at war with themselves at work.
“I just need to be more disciplined.” Most clients arrive having tried that. The work I do is slower than that — private 1:1 coaching for software engineers and tech leaders with ADHD.
You don’t need more discipline.
If that were the issue, you would have solved it by now.
You’re thoughtful. You take your work seriously. You’ve done well in your career.
People trust you. You handle a lot.
But something keeps not working the way it should.
You’re thinking more than you want to. Second-guessing decisions that used to feel simple. Carrying a quiet pressure to just get the thing done.
You’ve tried pushing through it. More structure. More discipline. More focus. It helps… for a bit.
But it doesn’t really resolve what’s underneath.
Most people stay in this loop longer than they need to. Not because they don’t care — but because they keep trying to solve it the same way.
Three ways in.
Coaching is the work I spend the most time on. The newsletter and the course are quieter doors into the same thinking.
A slower kind of conversation.
Private coaching for software engineers and tech leaders with ADHD. Three months. Six conversations. No five-step programs.
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Real work moments from the inside — on the pressure no one assigned you, the trap of trying to fix yourself first, and what’s actually happening when the productivity systems stop working.
- The pressure underneath the work — The invisible expectations driving the stuckness.
- Why more discipline isn’t the answer — The fix-yourself trap, and what changes when you leave it.
- Underneath procrastination — The inside view of stuck work.
- The pressure no one assigned you
- When fixing yourself becomes the blocker — Your side project is not a referendum on who you are.
- You think you need accountability — “Accountability” is often the wrong fix.
Michael Greenspan.
Before coaching, I spent years working in engineering and engineering leadership. Now I work one-on-one with software engineers and tech leaders.
Most of the people I speak with aren’t lacking effort or intelligence. They’re dealing with pressure, constant thinking, and ambiguity that makes simple tasks feel strangely impossible.
In our conversations, we slow things down — enough to see what’s getting in the way, and take a next step that doesn’t come from pressure.
Based in Toronto.