Transcend ADHD
Transcend ADHD offers a strength-based ADHD assessment and an eight-week live course that reframes ADHD as a high-performance mind rather than a deficit. The program, built on flow research and self-actualization science, includes a 24/7 AI text coach that delivers personalized daily nudges for busy professionals and executives.
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Founders
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Product
Problem
Traditional ADHD treatment focuses on symptom management and coping strategies, framing the condition as a deficit to be controlled. This approach fails to address the underlying psychological needs of individuals with ADHD, leaving them without a path to leverage their unique cognitive strengths such as hyperfocus.
Solution
Transcend ADHD provides a strength-based framework for ADHD self-actualization, combining a diagnostic assessment with an eight-week live course. The assessment, available to BC and Ontario residents, is completed in two weeks via secure video and yields a full diagnostic report and flow profile. The course, available worldwide, integrates Dr. Hogarth's research on the dark side of flow with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman's self-actualization framework, teaching participants to unlock hyperfocus as a strength and satisfy core psychological needs across eight weekly modules. A 24/7 AI coach, trained in high-performance psychology and ADHD, delivers personalized daily text nudges to support habit building and sustained growth.
Target Audience
Primary customers are adults with ADHD, particularly busy professionals and executives, who seek a strength-based approach to understanding and leveraging their brain rather than merely managing symptoms. The assessment service is limited to residents of British Columbia and Ontario, while the course is available worldwide.
Features
- Strength-based ADHD assessment completed in two weeks via secure video, including a full diagnostic report and unique flow profile
- Eight-week live course with weekly two-hour sessions taught by Dr. Hogarth and Dr. Kaufman, plus one-hour small group coaching sessions (3-4 people) with an expert ADHD coach
- Curriculum structured around eight core psychological needs: safety, connection, self-esteem, exploration, love, purpose, and integration of security and growth needs
- 24/7 AI text coach ("Dr. Brent in Your Pocket") providing personalized daily nudges, with oversight from Dr. Hogarth
- Free 12-question psychological needs assessment based on Kaufman's Transcend framework, mapping satisfaction across six need categories
- Self-paced platform with recorded sessions, videos, resources, and downloadable materials that remain accessible indefinitely