The ADD Superpower
Randy Walton spent most of his life standing out from the crowd because he lived the first 40 years of his life with ADD but didn't know it. On the outside, everything seemed fine but on the inside, he was endlessly frustrated, and like other great leaders he then had his turning point.
Randy Walton, Managing Partner at The Walton Group
Randy Walton has been advising and mentoring senior executive leaders as well as serving on boards for over 25 years in North America and Europe. He has extensive experience in corporate strategic planning, operations management, marketing, technology operations, business consulting, and organizational leadership. He serves on 4 non-profit boards and is chairman of 2 of them.
He is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Walton Group. He is a CEPA (Certified Exit Planner) and a Certified Private Board Director.
Randy currently serves the private boards of Codelitt Software and Allied Development (Chairman).
Randy is the co-author of “Enhancing Your Business Value” and “Roadmap to Remarkable.” Randy is also the author of “Hidden in Plain Sight” releasing in January 2023.
Randy also has deep experience as a social entrepreneur having participated in or led numerous non-profit organizations focused on cultural impact projects throughout southeast Asia and Western Europe. He has been deeply involved in community development and redevelopment efforts in Central Kenya focused on provision of clean water, education, micro enterprise, literacy, and medical care.
How has being different made you a better leader?
Having ADD allowed me to cultivate a deeper understanding of others and their own struggles.
I also learned to leverage my ADD to operate in a more multi-threaded way than most.
ADD taught me to manage my own distressing emotions and therefore help others to do the same in crisis situations.
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