David A. Greenwood

David A. Greenwood ran a karate school and a restaurant near Boston, then started the public relations and video business Street Smart PR, and he has ADHD himself. Overcoming Distractions, published in 2016, grew out of interviews with entrepreneurs around the country who share the diagnosis, asking how they built companies around the way their attention works instead of fighting it; case studies, testimony from specialists and action plans fill out the chapters. Greenwood sells coaching on focus and on burnout, which became the subject of a second book, and he records a weekly podcast carrying the first book's title. He describes failing his freshman year at a vocational high school, and about a decade of involvement with Special Olympics.