Transformative Talks Rooted in
Lived Experience, Equity & Empowerment
Whether speaking to tech companies, educators, caregivers, or future leaders, I use storytelling, research, and real-world tools to spark courageous conversations around neurodiversity, ADHD, leadership, and workplace inclusion.
As an Indian woman with late-diagnosed ADHD, a former clinician, and a systems thinker, I offer a uniquely intersectional lens — blending vulnerability, strategy, and empowerment into every talk.
Let’s go beyond checklists and compliance. Let’s build cultures where people actually belong.
Signature Topics Include:
Compassionate Curiosity™
Self-Advocacy in Action
What’s Your Real Why?
How to Make ADHD Work for Me
Courageous Conversations: ADHD & Me
Each talk can be customized for corporate teams, educators, universities, ERGs, nonprofits, or conference audiences.
Takeaways:
– How to identify what truly motivates you—beyond external expectations
– Reframing job-hopping and nonlinear paths as part of deeper exploration
– Reconnecting to your inner child and core values
– Creating a strengths-aligned career path from the inside out
What’s Your Real Why?
Overview:
This isn’t your typical career talk. It’s a permission slip for smart, creative, often neurodivergent individuals who feel stuck in jobs they’re “good at” but not fulfilled by. We explore how to reverse-engineer purpose by tapping into what lights you up. Khushboo brings lived experience, coaching tools, and compassion to help participants reconnect with the joy, curiosity, and “why” behind their next career move.
Format: Workshop or Keynote (60–90 min)
Ideal For: Career changers, college students, neurodivergent professionals, midlife transitioners, emerging leaders
Self-Advocacy in Action
Overview:
This empowering session offers participants tangible ways to express their needs and truths in professional settings, especially when authenticity has felt risky. It blends coaching strategies with communication practices to help individuals advocate for themselves without fear, guilt, or burnout.
Format: Keynote, Training or Workshop (60 min)
Ideal For: Women, neurodivergent professionals, ERGs, emerging leaders, underrepresented groups
Takeaways:
– Communication tools to express needs clearly and respectfully
– How to manage fear of being “too much” or “too honest”
– Scripts and scenarios for boundary-setting, feedback, and requests
– Why self-advocacy benefits teams, not just individuals
Takeaways:
– How to identify what truly motivates you—beyond external expectations
– Reframing job-hopping and nonlinear paths as part of deeper exploration
– Reconnecting to your inner child and core values
– Creating a strengths-aligned career path from the inside out
Compassionate Curiosity™
Overview:
This isn’t your typical career talk. It’s a permission slip for smart, creative, often neurodivergent individuals who feel stuck in jobs they’re “good at” but not fulfilled by. We explore how to reverse-engineer purpose by tapping into what lights you up. Khushboo brings lived experience, coaching tools, and compassion to help participants reconnect with the joy, curiosity, and “why” behind their next career move.
Format: Workshop or Keynote (60–90 min)
Ideal For: Career changers, college students, neurodivergent professionals, midlife transitioners, emerging leaders
ADHD & Me
Overview:
Khushboo shares her personal story of discovering her ADHD later in life and how it transformed her relationship to work, self-worth, and success. Through honesty, humor, and insight, this keynote invites others to rethink what ADHD means and how we can create systems that work for us, not against us.
Format: Keynote (30–45 min)
Ideal For: Employee resource groups, general audiences, mental health awareness events, inclusion weeks
Takeaways:
– De-stigmatizing ADHD through storytelling
– Lessons from therapy, leadership, and lived experience
– How ADHD can shape communication, learning, and leadership
– Reframing “disorder” as difference
Takeaways:
– How to build ADHD-friendly work systems
– Strategies for planning, organizing, and follow-through
– Insights into sensory needs, motivation, and mental health
– Creating an environment where you can thrive, not just cope
How to Make ADHD Work for Me:
Overview:
Practical, relatable, and full of lived insight—this session helps participants navigate ADHD in real time. From executive functioning challenges to time blindness, Khushboo offers tools and mindsets that help attendees align their systems to how their brains actually work.
Format: Workshop or Fireside Chat (45–60 min)
Ideal For: People with ADHD or executive function struggles, wellness programs, neurodiversity summits, student success initiatives