Autorentext

Alexandra Robuste is the creator of Gentle Leading, a needs-based, emotionally intelligent leadership approach designed to replace micromanagement with empowerment and burnout with resilience. She is the founder of Apex Growth Academy and brings nearly 20 years of experience as a business growth architect across omnichannel sales and marketing to her consulting work.

Klappentext

Moving beyond awareness campaigns, this book redefines leadership through emotional regulation, neuroscience, and radical inclusion, and offers a blueprint for creating psychologically safe environments where neurodivergent talent can thrive.

With growing calls for leadership that goes beyond inclusive to transformative, leaders are often expected to build psychological safety, support cognitive diversity, and regulate their own emotions-often without a roadmap. Now that roadmap is here, filled with practical tools to replace micromanagement with trust, build emotionally regulated communication systems, and leverage neurodivergent strengths in teams. The book includes real-world case studies, self-assessments, printable toolkits, the GENTLE(TM) Framework, and more, all designed to transform leadership from control to empowerment and burnout to resilience.

Suitable for corporate and startup leaders, Human Resources and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion professionals, executive coaches, and neurodivergent entrepreneurs, this book is equally valuable for educators, organizational psychologists, and parents of neurodivergent adults entering the workforce.

Inhalt

List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements and Intentions. Introduction. Part I Rethinking Leadership Through a Neurodivergent Lens. Chapter 1 Neurodivergence in Leadership: The Invisible Baseline and How Leadership Systems Undermine Neurodivergent Potential. Chapter 2 The Dialects of Divergence: An Overview of Neurodivergent Profiles in Leadership Contexts. Chapter 3 The Hidden Load-Coping, Masking, and the Cost of Adaptation: Why Adaptive Effort Is a Leadership Concern. Part II **Neurodivergent Profiles in Leadership Contexts. Chapter 4 ADHD: Fast Brains, Dynamic Drive: Leadership on a Nonlinear Timeline. Chapter 5 Autism: Pattern, Integrity, and the Architecture of Thought. Chapter 6 AuDHD: At the Intersection of Urgency and Structure. Chapter 7 Dyslexia: Visual Logic in a Verbal World. Chapter 8 Dyscalculia: Quantity, Confidence, and the Leadership Cost of Number Strain. Chapter 9 Dyspraxia: Movement, Planning, and the Somatic Dimensions of Leadership. Chapter 10 Highly Sensitive Persons: Depth Processing, Emotional Precision, and Sensory Boundaries. Chapter 11 Tics and Tourette Syndrome: Expression, Control, and Visibility under Pressure. Chapter 12 Giftedness: Cognitive Intensity, Asynchrony, and the Challenge of Containment. Part III **Systemic Integration: Leading Neurodiverse Teams and Self. Chapter 13 **Neurodiversity in Teams: Integrating Difference without Friction. Chapter 14 **Leading While Neurodivergent: Navigating Leadership from the Inside Out-Clarity, Capacity, and Cognitive Fit. Chapter 15 Regulating the Nervous System in Leadership: Leadership as an Embodied State and the Autonomic Nervous System in Action. Chapter 16 The Neuroscience of Gentle Leadership: The Neurochemical Basis of Leadership. Conclusion