The ADHD Skills Lab

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Navigate each day in an ADHD-friendly way – with research-backed strategies, real-life experiences and expert advice. Each week, UO founder Skye Waterson chats with expert guests, takes your questions and offers practical support to help you move past whatever may be holding you back. Together with UO’s coaching director, Sarah Russell, they’ll delve into the latest ADHD research and discuss how it can be applied day to day. 

Skye Waterson is a former academic turned coach, podcast host, and founder of an international ADHD support service, Unconventional Organisation. After getting a surprise ADHD diagnosis in the first year of her PhD, Skye turned her struggles into research-based strategies. She researched and wrote over 50 articles with a combined readership of 250,000+ and then began her next phase of disseminating these strategies around the world. 

Invited to share her strategies with the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) in 2022, Skye has supported late-diagnosed healthcare professionals, professors, lawyers, reporters, fortune 500 directors, and entrepreneurs. She crafted her vision for Unconventional Organisation after realizing how few personalized ADHD strategies were available for adults following her diagnosis.

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Recent Reviews

Myota

Episode with Angie Harrington so relatable

I love listening this show, and the episode with Skye interviewing Angie was so relatable to me as a mom of two kiddos, one school age with ADHD symptoms similar to mine. Going to parent teacher conferences wrings my heart because I wish I had the energy to do more to help him have a better experience than I did. Also, I love the analogy of green to yellow to red for emotional regulation, I’m so going to use it. Keep up the amazing work ladies and thank you for this podcast!
NerdJourneyNK

A Fantastic Mix of Research and Practical Tips

As someone who has family members with ADHD, this has been a great show to help me gain some perspective on how to better support my family members. And I’ve picked up some tips for myself along the way. :) I enjoy the way episodes are structured to share research in a digestible format and provide practical tips. I especially love hearing the stories of people with ADHD. As someone who works in tech, the conversation with Lisa Ballard was one of my favorites.
Maggie Schneid

Love the mix of research and realness!

As a business owner with ADHD, I’ve found it hard to find resources that actually provide tactical advice that doesn’t feel impossible to use…. Until now. Skye is a natural interviewer and I love the mix of research-backed strategies with real life examples and compassion. This podcast is a goldmine for the ADHD girlie!
Ecmoore

Excellent podcast

I used to do my own literature reviews on ADHD research.. aka have 30+ open tabs with journal articles opened on my phone for every one I would read. It’s amazing to have thorough, thoughtful reviews available as a podcast. Thank you!!
Eep64

Soared to my favorite neurodivergent podcast

I like a few ADHD and ASD podcasts but none clicked with me the way The ADHD Skills Lab does. The research-based approach (thank you!!!) combined with a supportive, accepting, friendly tone always gives this (very) late diagnosed ADHDer with ASD traits new information and, just as important, renewed confidence and hope for the future. Quality podcasting.
Chelsea Bolton

Inspiring and helpful!

Just finished listening to the first day’s episodes, and I am so excited for more! This show includes everything I could hope for in a podcast- great relatable stories, helpful advice, and data driven studies to provide more information/knowledge. Skye is a super lovely host who has a knack at having fun light hearted conversations packed with listener takeaways! Thank you for sharing this podcast with the world! :)