The Neurodiversity Advantage: Building a Business with Keith Gelhorn

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we meet Keith Gelhorn, the founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of ADDvocacy. Keith shares his powerful personal journey of struggling through school and various careers before being diagnosed with ADHD in his 30s. This discovery led him to found ADDvocacy, a neurodiversity coaching and consulting company that is 100% neurodivergent-owned and operated. He delves into their remarkable success in helping post-secondary students, particularly female perfectionists prone to burnout, achieve a 95% graduation rate by providing the peer support and executive function coaching they need to thrive.Keith also discusses the exciting future of ADDvocacy, which includes leveraging generative AI to create scalable, barrier-free coaching tools, making support more accessible to those who need it. He expands on his passion for coaching entrepreneurs and his latest legacy project, Big Bears Enterprises, a social enterprise aimed at helping Indigenous and marginalized youth build resilience and explore entrepreneurship. This episode is a profound look at turning personal struggle into a mission of empowerment and innovation.