LEAP Connect
LEAP Connect aims to bring both needed and inspirational leadership dialogues to the community. Through a series of accessible monthly leadership conversations, trainings, networking opportunities and more, participants will build the tools and resources needed to inspire change within their personal and professional communities.
Upcoming Session
Understanding ADHD and Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity is more than a buzzword—it’s a powerful framework that recognizes and values the natural diversity in how brains work. ADHD is one of many neurodivergent ways of thinking, often misunderstood as simply a deficit in attention or hyperactivity. In reality, ADHD comes with its own strengths, challenges, and unique ways of experiencing the world.
In this workshop, we’ll explore what it means to be neurodivergent, how ADHD fits into the broader concept of neurodiversity, and why shifting from a deficit-based view to a strengths-based perspective is so important. We’ll also discuss practical strategies for managing focus, energy, and executive function, along with ways to create environments that support neurodivergent individuals.
Whether you identify as neurodivergent, suspect you might, or want to better understand and support those who do, this session will provide valuable insights and tools to navigate the world through a neurodiversity-affirming lens.
LEAP Connect leadership workshops are free, accessible to the public, and are intended to bring a safe space to the community. Participants can walk away from the sessions with the tools and resources necessary to increase their leadership skills and inspire change.
About Ashmi Patel
Ashmi Patel is a Life Coach who helps individuals shed perfectionism, shame, and people-pleasing so they can build lives guided by intuition rather than external expectations. With a Master’s in Religious Studies and a background in designing and facilitating leadership development programs for senior higher education leaders, Ashmi brings a deep understanding of identity, cultural nuance, and personal transformation to her work.
Her coaching philosophy is rooted in radical self-acceptance, empowering clients to trust themselves and move through life with more ease. Ashmi is passionate about helping late-diagnosed ADHDers embrace their unique strengths, overcome self-doubt, and break free from societal pressures. She focuses on creating safe spaces where clients can learn to love themselves for who they truly are, not who they think they should be.
A first-generation Indian American and child of immigrants, Ashmi describes herself as wildly curious, easily excitable, a deep feeler, and a constant daydreamer.
2025 Season
October
TBD. Check back soon!
November
Reimagining Your Relationship with Your Parents: Healing Across Generations in the API Community
Many Asian and Pacific Islander (API) adults carry unspoken stories, expectations, and wounds from their upbringing—often shaped by migration, sacrifice, silence, and survival. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to reimagine our relationships with our parents, even if they never change. Drawing from the Parents Reimagined program, this session will offer insights into common intergenerational dynamics in API families and provide practical tools for fostering emotional resilience, deeper connection, and personal liberation. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of their relational patterns, along with pathways for inner healing and change.
December
Beyond Achievements: Setting Intentions for the New Year That Feel Meaningful, Not Just Productive
As Asian Pacific Islanders, many of us have been raised to equate success with hard work, achievement, and meeting the expectations of our families and communities. We’ve been taught that productivity is proof of our worth—but what if true fulfillment isn’t about doing more, but about aligning with what truly matters to you?
In this workshop, we’ll take a culturally-rooted approach to setting intentions that prioritize joy, balance, and personal meaning over external validation. We’ll explore the unspoken pressures that shape how we define success, unlearn hustle-centered goal-setting, and reframe intention-setting as a practice of self-trust and agency. Through guided reflection and community conversation, you’ll walk away with intentions that feel deeply aligned—not just another list of expectations to meet.
This is your space to honor both your cultural roots and your evolving desires as you step into the new year with clarity and confidence.
This workshop is tailored to the API experience but is open to all allies and community members.
Thank you to our LEAP Connect sponsors
