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The High Cost of Fitting In: Reclaiming Your Power as a Neurodivergent Leader ft. Rita Ramakrishnan
For many tech leaders—especially the neurodivergent—success often feels like a performance. You mirror the behaviors you see, fit ourselves into neurotypical boxes, and pay for it with our mental and physical health.   But leadership doesn’t have to be a grind. When you stop fighting your own wiring and start leveraging your Pattern Recognition Engine, you don't just work faster—you work with Cognitive Ease.   In this episode of Uncommon Leadership Podcast, Michael Hunter sits down with neurodivergent executive coach and researcher Rita Ramakrishnan to debug the Masking Tax and introduce a new operating system for leadership: Cognitive Ease.   What's Waiting For You Inside the Episode?   A startling reality—your manager has more impact on your mental health than your therapist or your partner. We discuss how to use this influence as leadership telemetry, not a burden of guilt. How to stop reacting on the dance floor of daily fires and step onto the balcony to see the patterns. This is the core of Choice Architecture. How to stop decoding your workplace and start co-creating it. We talk about the simple, 10-minute conversations to integrate your team’s collective intelligence. Energy Mapping: How to identify the Special Sauce in your day—the moments that leave you energized instead of depleted.   Whether you are navigating ADHD, the autism spectrum, or simply the overwhelming complexity of modern business, this conversation is your guide to reclaiming your peace and your power.   Loved this? Continue binging.   Watch new episodes of the Uncommon Leadership Podcast: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp9vaDKz5TI7gaWKLc801Dw   Or sign up for the Uncommon Leadership newsletter at https://uncommonteams.com   Prefer audio? Stream here: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/uncommon-leadership/id1654637165   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2BkXGceaZgVWxGQCXcrmgj   Presented By: Uncommon Change     #NeurodivergentLeadership #ADHDLeadership #AutismInTech #CognitiveEase #RitaRamakrishnan #UncommonLeadership #MichaelHunter #UncommonTeams #UncommonHero   About the Speakers   Rita Ramakrishnan Rita Ramakrishnan is an executive neurodivergent coach, team coach and facilitator, and researcher at UPenn dedicated to neurodivergent success factors. As the founder of Iksana Consulting, she helps leaders dismantle the "masking tax" and achieve cognitive ease through a strengths-based lens. Rita is dedicated to empowering high-performers to lead with authenticity, peace, and systemic resilience.   Connect with Rita Ramakrishnan : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritaram/ Website: https://www.iksana.com/     Michael Hunter Drawing from his experience working with tech leaders across six continents—from tiny startups to mega-corps, Michael Hunter partners with tech leaders to uncover the invisible dynamics that block quality, stall change, and quietly drain energy from their teams. He helps leaders unlock the heroic leadership within them and their teams—and often recover parts of themselves that may have gotten a little lost along the way.   Connect with Michael Hunter: Website: https://uncommonteams.com/work-with-me/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/humbugreality/
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