What is Human at Work?

Human at Work is a thought-leadership platform exploring what it means to live, lead, and create as fully human beings. It blends neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience to make sense of how we work, heal, and grow in complex system.

Is Human at Work about work or about being human?

Both. “Work” here isn’t limited to your job—it’s everything that demands energy and intention: healing, creating, leading, living. The goal isn’t just better workplaces, but better ways of being at work in the world.

How is Human at Work different from other self-development blogs?

I’m not a clinician—I’m a writer who studies and translates the human experience through both science and story. My background combines years of research, professional writing, and lived experience as an autistic, ADHD professional. Human at Work is where I turn that study into language and frameworks that others can use to make sense of their own systems.

What’s your goal with Human at Work?

To take the language of neuroscience, systems theory, and survival, and turn it into something that helps people live and lead with more clarity, compassion, and self-trust.

What makes you qualified to write about neuroscience, trauma, and systems?

It’s not about optimization—it’s about integration. Human at Work invites you to understand the systems beneath behavior so growth feels sustainable, not performative.

Why does Human at Work cover so many different topics—from neurodiversity to housing?

Because being human is interdisciplinary by design. Our biology, psychology, work, and environments are all part of one interconnected system. Whether we’re talking about prefab housing or attention systems in the brain, we’re really asking the same question: how do we design structures that support life—human life—in all its complexity?

Why include fiction and poetry on a thought-leadership platform?

Because logic explains systems, but story makes them human. Fiction and poetry are how we metabolize experience; they remind us that growth and meaning don’t come from efficiency alone—they come from empathy, imagination, and the courage to feel.

Why do you write about trauma, ADHD, and leadership together?

Because they’re deeply linked. The nervous system that manages trauma is the same one that shapes focus, decision-making, and empathy. Understanding our wiring helps us lead, create, and connect from regulation instead of reactivity.

Why do you use personal stories in your essays?

Story is how systems become human. Personal narratives ground abstract science in lived experience. They remind us that every “system” is made of people trying to make sense of their lives.

What does systems thinking have to do with personal growth?

Systems thinking helps us see that burnout, dysfunction, or disconnection aren’t personal failures—they’re signals from the system. Whether it’s your nervous system or your workplace, sustainable change starts by redesigning the structures that shape behavior.

How can organizations support human systems better?

The most compassionate workplaces design predictable success. When systems account for real human variability—energy cycles, attention, emotions—people can show up more fully and sustainably. Structure before stress, connection before correction.

What’s the main idea behind everything you write?

That being human is a system—complex, adaptive, and resilient. When we understand how the human system works, we can design lives and organizations that don’t just survive stress, but evolve through it.

What’s next for Human at Work?

You can connect through the contact form on our site, comment on blog posts, or reach out on LinkedIn. We’re always looking to collaborate with people and organizations building more human systems for work and life.