Growing Up with ADHD: What School Struggles Teach Us About the Workplace

Speaker: Caroline Carrier

Description

ADHD doesn’t disappear with age—it just changes shape.

Growing Up with ADHD: What School Struggles Teach Us About the Workplace draws on real insights from school-age children with ADHD and maps them onto the adult workplace experience. From difficulty focusing and emotional regulation to sensory overload and rejection sensitivity, many of the challenges children face in school persist into adulthood—often in more internalised and less recognised ways.

In this session, we explore:

• What children with ADHD say about their needs—and what this tells us about adult support

• How common school struggles reappear in the workplace, just with different labels

• Why the belief that kids “grow out of ADHD” creates barriers to understanding and accommodation

• Practical ways employers can respond with empathy, flexibility, and support

• How understanding these patterns can boost employee wellbeing, engagement, and productivity

  
  

Led by a neurodivergent speaker with lived experience, this talk reframes ADHD not as something to outgrow—but as something to understand, work with, and support at every life stage.