Łukasz Sielski · @adaptivedeveloper
Career coaching for neurodivergent professionals.
Just one step — tell me who you are.
Not sure? Read how the method works instead.
Career coaching
The problem usually isn't you. It's the design of the work.
Most productivity advice assumes the problem is your discipline. I assume the problem is the design of the work. That difference is the foundation of my approach.
Sound familiar?
- You put off the work you care about most.
- Meetings leave you too drained to do the actual job.
- The promotion keeps stalling on the same few things.
- You're masking all day and running on empty by mid-afternoon.
- You keep polishing instead of shipping.
- You buy another productivity tool instead of changing the setup.
Whatever it is, we find the real bottleneck behind it — and redesign how you work around it.
Book a Career DiagnosticYou leave the first session with
- →a map of your biggest bottleneck
- →a redesigned weekly plan
- →three experiments to run
- →written notes and next actions
For managers & founders
Redesign the setup. Get the output.
The talent isn’t the problem — the way the work is set up is. I redesign how the team operates: expectations, hand-offs and how progress is tracked, so autistic and ADHD staff deliver their best without burning out.
- The deadline that motivates one person paralyses another.
- Reviews and 1:1s miss what's actually blocking delivery.
- Generic communication advice creates more confusion, not less.
One-to-one for managers, or a workshop for the team.
What the business gets
- →Lower management overhead
- →Better retention of key people
- →Fewer costly misunderstandings
- →More predictable delivery
- →Faster onboarding
- →Reduced burnout-related absence
How coaching works
One method. Borrowed from engineering.
It isn't motivation. It's the same loop I use to build products — pointed at how you work.
Results
What actually changes.
Coaching should change your week, not add a nicer to-do list. These are the kinds of shifts we work toward.
Tools
Tools that carry some of the load.
Small, calm products built with the same method as the coaching — designed for neurodivergent brains, so the setup does more of the work and you do less.
A neurodivergent-friendly summariser for Jira. Point it at an issue and get a calm, de-noised read of a comment thread — where it's at, what's needed, what came back — instead of scrolling a wall of noise. Read-only, single-issue, stores nothing.
tasklore.sielay.com ↗The plans, prompts and playbooks from coaching, packaged as a toolkit you can run yourself.
Join the newsletter to hear when the beta opens.About Łukasz
Find the bottleneck. Redesign how you work. Test it. Improve it. Repeat.
I've spent years designing products and systems that run without me — Mathbuns, Eidan, Booksellr.
Now I point that same engineering approach at a different problem: helping neurodivergent people succeed at work.
Being AuDHD (autistic + ADHD) is where the perspective comes from. The method comes from the engineering.
Find the real bottleneck, redesign around it, test, improve. It works on software. It works just as well on how you work.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Who is coaching for?
Neurodivergent professionals, founders and freelancers who are capable but keep hitting the same wall — and the managers who lead neurodivergent teams. We work on the design of the work, not your personality.
What is a Career Diagnostic?
The first session. We find your biggest bottleneck, redesign your week around it, and you leave with three experiments to run plus written notes and next actions. One-to-one, online, 60 minutes.
Do I need a diagnosis?
No. If work costs you more than it should and the usual productivity advice hasn't stuck, we can still find what's slowing you down and redesign around it. A diagnosis isn't required.
Can managers book?
Yes. A Team Diagnostic redesigns how the work is set up so autistic and ADHD staff deliver their best — with less management overhead. Book the same way.
Can organisations book workshops?
Yes — team sessions and workshops are available for organisations. Book a Team Diagnostic and we'll scope it, or email to arrange.
Online or in person?
Sessions are online by default, so timezone and location are rarely a problem. In-person can be arranged for teams in the UK.