Agile4ADHD Office Hours
IRL, In the Lower Haight
Feel like you’re doing life on “hard mode”? You’re not alone.
Join me for ADHD Life Office Hours—a dedicated time where you can drop in, ask questions, get focused, and reset with guidance from an experienced ADHD coach.
When: Wednesday, June 25, 3-4 p.m.
Where: Lower Haight (exact location given at registration)
Come as you are. Leave with clarity, momentum, and a plan.
Amy creates the right mix of structure, awareness, and accountability, making it easier to navigate change.
She doesn’t just offer answers — she helps you discover your own. I’ve gained a lot from our work together and look forward to continuing.
Manager, Experience Design Lab
“Working with Amy is helping me market my business in my local community and make the most of the network connections I have. At each meeting, she encourages me to look for new opportunities. I like that I can create a list of goals to meet between appointments.
It's refreshing that she accounts for interruptions that may arise between appointments. Amy is a great thought partner! She has a lot of wisdom to share.
Thank you for helping me think through my client engagement and accountability AND for helping me move forward to my next step!
You set me up for a great 2025!
What makes Agile ideally suited for ADHD-affected adults?
Agile was designed to require as little working memory and general executive function as possible in order to free up such resources for other tasks. Also - while not designed for ADHD per se - it WAS designed for the degree of uncertainty and interruption typical of life with ADHD. Here are a few examples of what applied Agile methodology looks like for ADHD:
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Agile integrates rhythmic self-correction - The “inspect and adapt” approach so characteristic of Agile was designed to catch the kinds of omissions and mistakes typical of living with ADHD. These cycles serve to constantly scan for impediments to productivity and opportunities for improvement.
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Agile teaches better estimation - which ADHD sufferers tend to be particularly bad at. The cyclical predict-execute-and-review process provides the necessary feedback for developing this skill, and the experimental structure of Agile facilitates the evolution of a personalized framework to substitute for the NT executive function.
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Automation & Delegation - Agile practice emphasizes delegating human work (especially anything boring or repetitive) to automated processes whenever possible. Password managers, automated payments, and other forms of personal automation are immensely helpful in offloading executive function tasks to more reliable substitutes
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Simplification - Agile is largely about the process of breaking down big, uncertain, complicated things into smaller, manageable, simpler things; focusing/solving each one, and then putting the solutions together to achieve a complete whole.
I have 15 years of experience in the field (mostly at tech companies). My approach is direct, practical, and action oriented.
Amy has been tremendously helpful with improving my workflow and productivity. I’ve made significant progress on personal goals and learned a lot about how much work I can realistically expect myself to do. I would recommend Amy without reservation.
Elizabeth Bales
“Amy is a sincere, earnest and insightful coach. She’s always been able to generate intuitive, complex responses to my questions. As an independent, successful entrepreneur for over a decade, I’m not a quick “follower” and need a solutions-oriented perspective."
Jennifer Cheng
When you get to connect with her, you'll discover an amazing, broad-minded, and detail oriented person. I strongly endorse Amy and would welcome the opportunity to work with her again.
Nicholas Macauley