Mainstream leadership writing lists the traits a CEO or founder-CEO is meant to have. This map asks a different question. How do those traits actually land across neurotypical, ADHD, autistic and AuDHD minds? Ten competencies, four profiles, one honest look at where each brain has an edge and where it meets friction.
How to read it. Green means the trait tends to come naturally to that mind. Amber means it tends to be a friction point, the kind of thing worth designing around rather than forcing.
AuDHD is the combination profile, where ADHD and autistic traits both show up, often pulling in different directions. That tension is where a lot of the interesting work sits.
Get the overview first, then read the detail below. Tap any row to jump straight to it.
Not every trait carries equal weight. Business success does not need a perfect score across all ten. It needs self-awareness and the right team built around how you actually lead.
A pre-revenue deep-tech startup needs pattern recognition and decisiveness far more than political diplomacy or boredom tolerance. The map shifts by stage, sector and team.
Plenty of these can be borrowed. A founder who struggles with delegation or politics can build around it with the right COO, chief of staff or board.
The meta-trait that matters most, across every neurotype, is knowing where you are strong, where you are not, and what conditions let you lead at your best.
These are tendencies. They are not diagnoses. Every leader is individual, and the map is here to open a more honest conversation about what great leadership looks like across different kinds of minds.
This map opens the conversation, and the coaching is where it goes deeper. We work on your competencies and your company together, alongside the patterns you have built on top of how your mind works. That means the business itself, and the draining RSD, perfectionism, avoidance and masking that sit underneath it.
A straight conversation about where you are and what would help. No pressure to continue.
