ADHD Awareness & Inclusion Workshops

For Your Organization, Teams, and Individuals With ADHD

• Virtual anywhere | In-person within 50 miles of Portland, OR
• 60- and 90-minute workshop options
• Led by Mark Barstow
  • 25 years in Corporate leadership 
    • 10+ years as IT Director scaling teams, budgets, and technology for rapid growth
  • 30 years of experience as trainer & entertainer
  • 1 lifetime of ADHD experience

Why ADHD Inclusivity Matters

The Facts

In most organizations, 1 in 7 employees is living with ADHD. Most don't know it or understand it and have no support.

They bring rare and valuable strengths: innovation, hyperfocus, creativity, resilience, and problem-solving under pressure. But too often, those strengths go unseen because our organizations weren't built for how their brains operate. The result? High potential employees underperforming, burning out, or leaving entirely due to lack of fit.

The Cost of Inaction

Employees with ADHD are 60% more likely to be fired and lose an average of 22 work days per year to stress and productivity struggles. That translates to millions in quiet losses from turnover, missed innovation, and lower engagement—not to mention the human toll of burnout on some of your best and brightest people.

The greatest expense isn't training or accommodations. It's the untapped potential sitting right in front of you.

The Gap

Meanwhile, 81% of managers say they feel unprepared to support employees with ADHD. Most leaders want to help—they simply don't have the tools or frameworks to do it confidently.

The Opportunity

When your organization meaningfully embraces people with ADHD, three things happen: talented people stop leaving, your innovation accelerates, and your legal risk drops.

✓ Higher Retention—keep uniquely talented people who used to slip through the cracks
✓ Stronger Morale—psychological safety creates trust and engagement
✓ Better Performance—when employees work with their brains, not against them
✓ Competitive Advantage—neurodiverse teams are proven to out-innovate and out-adapt
✓ Legal Compliance—the right ADA accommodations mean reduced risk plus credibility

The Solution

ADHD Pathfinders Workshops help managers and teams turn understanding into action, and employees with ADHD turn struggle into strength. We equip leaders to spot hidden strengths, create ADHD-friendly systems, and build cultures where everyone can flourish.

What happens next is transformational—not just for employees with ADHD, but for every team member who thrives in an environment that has evolved to make room for neurological differences.

How Your Employees with ADHD Are Struggling

For most employees with ADHD, work is a daily stage performance.

They're masking—hiding their struggles with focus, time & task management, and emotional regulation to avoid judgment or job loss.
They're overcompensating—working twice as hard to meet the same standards, often at the cost of their health and personal lives.
They're second-guessing themselves—wondering if they're capable, if they belong, or if they'll ever stop feeling like an imposter.

And most are doing it silently and alone—because disclosing ADHD at work still feels risky.

The result?
Burnout. Anxiety. A quiet belief that "I'm the problem."

But they're not the problem.
The organizational systems, spaces, expectations, and culture weren't designed for how their brains work. And it's happening at scale, worldwide.

But if your organization learns to see ADHD differently—not as a deficit, but as a different operating system—employees can stop just surviving and start flourishing.

That shift begins with awareness and understanding. 

Voices of ADHD Employees

These are the voices of people with ADHD everywhere, including in your organization. Every one of these struggles is real. Every one of them can be helped with the right awareness and support. 

That's what ADHD Pathfinders Workshops create.

ADHD Pathfinders Workshops

Offerings

All ADHD Pathfinders Workshops are interactive, real-world, immediately actionable, and led by someone who’s lived and led through ADHD in corporate life.

Workshop 1

ADHD 101: Understanding the ADHD Brain at Work

For all employees, leaders, and HR/DEIB professionals

60-Minute version: $1,200 virtual / $1,400 in-person (or $600/$700 for FPs)

90-Minute version: $1,600 virtual / $1,900 in-person (or $800/$950 for FPs)

Workshop 2

Leading & Supporting Employees with ADHD

For managers, team leads, and supervisors

$1,800 virtual / $2,100 in-person (or $900/$1,050 for FPs)

Workshop 3

Flourishing at Work with ADHD

For those who have or suspect they have ADHD

$1,500 virtual / $1,800 in-person (or $750/$900 for FPs)

What's Included

 Pre-workshop consultation to tailor content to your team

✅ Professionally designed slides and takeaway handouts

✅ Interactive exercises and real-world scenarios

✅ Post-workshop resource guide

✅ 30 days of email support for follow-up questions

Optional Add-On: Workshop Recording (30-day access) — Add $400 (no FP discount)
Perfect for employees who couldn't attend live or teams who want to revisit key strategies.

Pricing Notes

Virtual: Any location, delivered live via Zoom

In-Person: Within 50 miles of Portland, OR
Pricing includes travel within service area. Out-of-area travel rates available upon request.

Nonprofit Discount: 20% off for organizations with annual budgets under $500K

Multi-workshop Packages: Custom pricing available. Book 2+ ADHD Pathfinders Workshops and save.

Ready to Build a More Inclusive Culture?

Why Choose Mark Barstow?

Most ADHD trainers are either academics with no corporate experience or advocates with no lived experience in leadership. Not Mark. After learning to work with his ADHD brain instead of against it, he rebuilt his life and now he helps organizations do the same for their employees.

Mark brings:

✓ 25+ years of corporate leadership (scaling teams, budgets, and tech for rapid growth)

✓ 1 lifetime of ADHD experience

✓ Certified Master Life Coach + Master NLP Practitioner

✓ 30 years of experience training, entertaining, and facilitating for groups of 3, groups of 800, and everything in between 

✓ Real-world perspective: He's been the struggling employee AND the leader trying to support them

You'll get:

• Authentic, relatable insights (not just theory)

• Practical, immediately actionable strategies

• A speaker who understands all facets of the challenges

• A passionate, engaged guide on a mission to help you

• Training that leads to real behavior change

What Leaders are Saying

About Mark 

A Guide Who's Actually Been There

My goal with ADHD Pathfinders Workshops: Help your organization unlock and retain talent. Help your employees with ADHD avoid the painful experiences I lived through. Help you build an organization where everyone can succeed.