Executive Functioning for ADHD Adults

What you'll learn
Understand how executive functioning challenges affect focus, organization, planning, time management, and follow-through in adults with ADHD.
Build practical systems for managing daily tasks, responsibilities, appointments, and priorities without relying only on memory or motivation.
Use ADHD-friendly focus strategies to reduce distraction, start tasks more easily, and stay engaged long enough to make meaningful progress.
Create simple routines and planning habits that support consistency, reduce overwhelm, and make daily life feel more manageable.
Identify common procrastination patterns and apply practical techniques to break tasks into smaller, more doable steps.
Develop follow-through strategies that help turn intentions into completed actions, even when energy, focus, or motivation fluctuates.
Organize physical spaces, digital tools, and personal workflows in ways that support clarity, productivity, and reduced mental clutter.
Create a personalized executive functioning action plan that can be used after the course to keep improving focus, organization, and self-management.
Requirements
No Requirements are required for this course.
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence. (While the content of this course was created by Dr. Joshua Shifrin, there is an AI voiceover to assist with narration.) Welcome. I'm Dr. Joshua Shifrin. I'm a licensed psychologist, Diplomate of the American Board of School Neuropsychology, Nationally Certified School Psychologist, an ADHD - Certified Clinical Services Provider, and I too have struggled in the past with ADHD and executive functioning. I'm glad you're here. If you are an adult with ADHD, suspect you may have ADHD, or simply feel like focus, organization, planning, and follow-through are harder than they seem to be for other people, this course is for you.
Executive functioning is the set of mental skills that helps you manage life. It includes planning, prioritizing, remembering, starting, stopping, organizing, regulating emotions, tracking time, and following through.
Think of executive functioning like the management system of the brain. It helps you answer questions like: What matters right now? What do I do first? How long will this take? What did I promise to do? How do I keep going when it gets boring? How do I pause before reacting?
For many ADHD adults, intelligence is not the issue. Motivation is not the whole issue. Caring is not the issue. The challenge is often that the brain's management system is inconsistent. Some days you can do a complicated project under pressure, and other days answering one email feels impossible.
This course is designed to help you stop asking, Why can't I just do it? and start asking, What support would make this easier to do?
Who this course is for
Adults with ADHD who struggle with focus, organization, time management, procrastination, or follow-through.
People who feel overwhelmed by daily responsibilities and want practical systems for managing tasks, routines, and priorities.
Adults who often start projects but have difficulty finishing them or staying consistent over time.
Students, professionals, entrepreneurs, creatives, or busy adults who want ADHD-friendly strategies for planning and productivity.
People who want to better understand executive functioning and how it affects motivation, attention, memory, and daily decision-making.
Adults who have tried traditional productivity advice but need a more flexible, realistic approach that works with an ADHD brain.
Anyone looking to build better habits, reduce mental clutter, and create simple systems for staying on track.