Business structure and accountability for founders with ADHD

You built the business.
But you’ve become the bottleneck.

Turn everything trapped inside your head into clear systems, accountable people and a business that gets things done without depending on your memory, mood or constant involvement.

Book an ADHD Breakthrough Call Why I understand this

Founder of Think Drinks. Built from a garage to £5m. Took on global drinks brands, built our own manufacturing facility and closed seven-figure corporate contracts.

£5m.

Annual sales at Think Drinks

£1.2m+.

Single annual corporate deals

18 years.

Running a real operating business

The real problem

The business has reached the limit of what you can personally hold.

You are not short of ideas. You are not lazy. But knowledge, decisions and unfinished work still live inside your head—and the team waits for you to move.

The bigger the business becomes, the more it asks from the same brain that built it.

Everything routes through you

Your team asks, waits and checks. Even good people struggle because the answer still lives with you.

Busy never becomes finished

Your days are full, but important work stays open until urgency or consequences force action.

Growth creates more pressure

More customers and staff should create freedom. Instead, they add decisions, noise and personal load.

Tom Collins, founder of Think Drinks and Get Traction

Operator, not theorist

I didn’t learn business from a coaching course.

I built Think Drinks from my garage, selling against some of the biggest drinks brands in the world.

We built our own manufacturing facility and flavour innovation centre. I closed major corporate contracts worth more than £1.2m a year with companies including Loungers plc and Matthew Clark.

I dealt with staff, manufacturing, cash flow, sales, operations—and the pressure of knowing everything still depended on me.

Then I was diagnosed with ADHD at 40.

Why this is personal

I didn’t just build a better business. I built a life I no longer need to escape from.

Two years of couples counselling. A divorce. More than £47,000 spent on ADHD therapy, coaching, mentoring and systems.

Some things helped. Many worked for a few weeks and disappeared. Eventually, I stopped trying to force myself to operate like everyone else and built a way of working around how my brain actually works.

An incredible relationship with my partner
Present for my children
My health and sleep transformed
A successful business without constant stress

Today I also live without ADHD medication. That is my personal story—not a promise or recommendation about yours.

The Get Traction method

Get it out of your head and into the business.

A practical operating system, implemented with you—not another pile of information to remember.

Founder

Reduce the noise and turn competing priorities into a way of working you can sustain.

Decide what matters.

Structure

Move knowledge into clear roles, visible systems, useful AI and a simple operating rhythm.

Make work visible.

Handover

Transfer decisions—not just tasks—so capable people can move without waiting for you.

Stop being the engine.

In their words

What happens when the right work finally gets done.

Recommendation from Adele Furness describing the action she took after receiving guidance and accountability — Adele Furness · Course member

Recommendation from Sharon Alston for Get Traction — Sharon Alston · Founder, veterinary hospital · 23 staff

Your next step

Let’s find what is keeping you stuck.

The ADHD Breakthrough Call is a focused conversation about you, your business and the constraint that needs attention first.

On the call, we will

Find where ADHD is affecting execution, leadership and growth
Identify the biggest founder-business bottleneck
Map what needs to change in you, the structure and the team
Decide honestly whether working together is the right next step

Book your ADHD Breakthrough Call

If there is a fit, I’ll explain how my high-touch coaching programme works and we can decide whether it is the right next step.

You built the business.But you’ve become the bottleneck.