Welcome to NeuroPeak Global Consulting: My Story

First, thank you for visiting my website. I started my company after nearly two decades of struggling through the corporate landscape, with no good resources to guide me on my path to growth.

My name is Adam, and I am originally from Nebraska, but I have always dreamed of letting my adventurous side guide my life. In my early childhood, my parents divorced, and I spent my years growing up in the house of a psychiatrist. You would think that would set me up for success as a neurodivergent; however, any form of mental illness was never considered as a possibility in my stepdad’s family. I was a smart kid who was good at problem-solving and masking to fit in with others, so it went unnoticed by the people in my life. It wasn’t until I reached college that the difficulties started to show.

I was always really good with math and excelled in all the courses I took. I even started calculus at the local university while I was still in high school, balancing my time between the high school and university campus. Then, when I finally moved off to college in the “big city,” my classes started getting harder, and the structure I had at home disappeared. I took my first computer science course and started having difficulty staying focused on what the professor was saying — sign number one of my ADHD. After continued and noticeable struggle with paying attention, I reached out to my mother, who is a nurse, and questioned if I might actually be ADHD. She encouraged me to use the free psych resources on campus to get tested, and sure enough, I was quite brilliant without any learning disabilities, so I was diagnosed with ADHD.

I spent just over a year on medication, which made an immense difference in my life, realizing how different my brain was from others. During that time, I taught myself how to make anything I needed to work on, a hyper-focused passion of mine. That allowed me to stop the medication after about two years. Then the next sign showed. I was initially an engineering student, and I loved what I was learning, but then I took my first theoretical mathematics course. The math itself wasn’t the challenge. I had spent many years being taught that math has stringent rules that you do not break, and here was this math course telling me I had to break the rules — the first sign I was autistic.

I ended up changing majors to Environmental Studies and Political Science with a Public Policy specialty. I fell in love with what I was learning, and as a perk, I had to take multiple classes on nonverbal communication. I still had no idea I was autistic, and these courses helped me hide it even more by giving me a clear checklist to understand how others were communicating. These skills got me through the next 12 years of school and work with no noticeable issues for anyone to identify. I was usually just seen as the quirky, smart guy —the nerd.

Then, in the spring of 2022, I was hit while snowboarding and received a severe TBI (traumatic brain injury). This had a significant impact on my brain's functioning. I lost all my memories and could only recognize four people in my life. Being a relatively poor non-profit employee and someone who has been supporting myself since I left home, I couldn’t afford all the fancy treatments, and insurance didn’t cover them. I also couldn’t afford to take an extended amount of time off work, so I returned about three weeks after my injury. All of the signs of autism that I had been able to hide for years started rearing their head in force, paired with significant symptoms from the TBI.

The TBI caused problems with my ability to solve problems, memory, hallucinations, and my ability to mask and read nonverbal communications went out the window. With my boss's encouragement to take some significant time off, I took three weeks to join a friend volunteering at Burning Man. While I was there, I worked on a team that was largely neurodivergent. After adding them on social media, I started to notice that I was seeing a lot of content on how other’s recognized they were autistic and they matched my experiences to a worrying degree. I decided that it was time to talk to my therapist about getting a diagnosis, and sure enough, my friends were right, I was also autistic.

My former boss supported my healing journey and recovery by providing me with a professional coach to rebuild the skills I had lost through my brain injury. These sessions were invaluable to my professional career, but looking back, I realized I could have been better supported if my coach had experience with neurodivergence. Enter NeuroPeak Global Consulting. Through all my experiences and struggles, I have been left with a passion and desire to help others who may be facing similar struggles to those I faced. I have a background in Operations Management, Leadership, Finance, Logistics, Policy, and Project Management, and I am currently attaining my M.B.A. from Adams State University in Colorado.

Thank you for taking the time to read a bit about my journey. My hope is that by sharing my story, others — whether business owners or neurodivergent professionals — feel seen, supported, and inspired to build workplaces that truly work for everyone.

If this resonates with you, I’d love to hear your thoughts or connect. You can reach me anytime through my contact page — I’d be happy to start a conversation.