A new, first of its kind business event for ADHD entrepreneurs is coming to Warrington on Friday 20th November 2026. The fun, high energy all day event is taking place at Engine Rooms from 10am and will feature networking with like-minded people, talks, workshops, interactive games, comedy and tools to take away that will help business owners make ADHD work for them and their business.
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The ADHD Event has been curated by award winning coach, speaker, author, podcast host, presenter and time and energy management expert Alice Dartnell. Having gone through her own journey with ADHD, she now helps business owners manage time, energy and play to their strengths and has also worked with big organisations such as the NHS, Indeed and London Fashion Academy.
The event is aimed at ADHD Business owners and entrepreneurs who want to unlock their superpower of ADHD — to stop fighting their brain and work with it! The event promises an enlightening day of expert talks, workshops and activities that will help attendees run their businesses more effectively — whilst offering networking with other business owners.
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Talks & Workshops
- Dopamine Your Business With Alice Dartnell: Discover how to harness dopamine, hyperfocus and the way your brain works to do business differently
- Your Weird Is Your Winning Edge With Holly Matthews: Drawing on 30 years in entertainment, psychology and business, Holly will show you how being different will make you memorable
- Caffeine, Crashes & Chaos With Nikola Howard: Discover how blood sugar and nutrition impact focus, decision making and emotional regulation in an ADHD brain
- You’re Not Shit With Money, You Have ADHD With Maddy Alexander-Grout: Maddy will unpack how money and ADHD affect each other so much, and how to make money work better with your brain
- Sleep Is Your ADHD Superpower With Leanne Naylor: Discover how sleep impacts your focus, creativity, energy and performance
- What If ADHD Isn’t Just A Wiring Issue With May Cheung: Explore ADHD through the lens of Eastern medicine
- The ADHD Art Of Getting In Your Own Way With Claire Tavernor: Claire will unpack what’s happening underneath the self sabotage behaviours
- How To Rebuild Self-Trust With Caroline Neild: Caroline explores the missing piece — self-trust and how years of masking, adapting and trying to fit in can chip away at it
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Entertainment & Activities
- Welcome drinks and lunch
- Live Music from Kim Antrobus
- Award Winning One Woman Comedy Show from Jess Nicks
- Exhibitors and stalls
- Make Your Own Sensory Stones
- Polaroid Wall
- ADHD Best-Selling Book Signing with Maddy Alexander-Grout
- ADHD Awards launch
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Anyone with ADHD traits is welcome to attend, whether officially diagnosed or not. Symptoms of ADHD involve your ability to pay attention to things (being inattentive), having high energy levels (being hyperactive) and your ability to control your impulses (being impulsive). You may show signs of being inattentive, such as being easily distracted or forgetful, finding it hard to organise your time, finding it hard to follow instructions or finish tasks and losing things often, like your wallet, mobile or keys.
You may make quick decisions without thinking about what might happen as a result, you may have a lot of energy or feel restless and you may be very talkative or interrupting in conversations. There have been many high profile people who have ran successful businesses with ADHD, such as Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Jamie Oliver — the key is knowing how to play to your strengths and make it work for you.
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Organiser Alice Dartnell said: “This new, first of its kind event is for business owners who want transformation. Whereas most ADHD content focuses on symptoms, struggles, diagnosis and coping, this event is about understanding, acceptance, harnessing and thriving. It’s about empowerment and giving people the tools to unlock their superpowers. It’s going to be a really high octane and high energy event having a load of ADHD people in a room together will be magic.”
Alice knows first hand the challenges of running a life and business with ADHD. Her diagnosis explained a lot — the people pleasing, the addictive personality, the overthinking, the brain that never shutting up, her problem with booze in her 20s and into her 30s, the sleep issues, the all-or-nothing cycles, the hyper focus, not recalling why she walked into a room, her school reports. This revelation led her to completely re-assess and restructure her way of working.
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She explains: “For most of your life you thought you were lazy, scatty, flaky, disorganised or couldn’t get your sh*t together. Then came the ADHD diagnosis or at least a suspicion of it and you get an ‘OMG it all makes sense now’ moment. But understanding you have or might have ADHD is only the beginning. How do you harness that creativity, the millions of ideas, hyperfocus and squirrel brain that comes with it?”
She continues: “Speaking to others and consuming content from fellow ADHDers and experts has been an important part of that journey and that is why I wanted to create this event! Because I couldn’t find anything quite like it. So I built it. The ADHD Event for ADHDers by ADHDers. A place to understand your brain, learn from experts, connect with people who genuinely get it, and discover how to stop fighting your ADHD and start thriving with it.”
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The ADHD Event is taking place at Engine Rooms in Warrington on Friday 20th November from 10am until 6.30pm. The event will feature networking with like-minded people, talks, workshops, interactive games, comedy and tools to take away that will help business owners make ADHD work for them and their business.
The ADHD Event / Engine Rooms, Warrington, WA3 6YN / 10am — 6.30pm
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