About Shane Thrapp
Why I do this
I spent thirty-five years believing I was lazy, broken, and getting away with something.
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I grew up in an abusive home where nobody had words for why I was different. My parents, teachers, and friends read my neurodivergence as defiance or oddness. My teens and twenties included homelessness and the kind of coping that keeps you alive and costs you later. In 2006 I found project management, and short, structured projects suited a brain I still didn't understand. I spent the next fourteen years doing that work, often in leadership roles, for companies like Cisco, Wells Fargo, and Duke Energy, while I fell apart outside the office.
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Then my oldest son got his ADHD diagnosis, and I saw myself in him. It took three more years and three psychiatrists to get my own: ADHD at 35, Autism at 36. By then, years of running on the wrong operating system had caught up with me. I had a breakdown in 2016, fibromyalgia arrived in 2018, and together they pushed me out of corporate work.
In 2019 our twins arrived at 27 weeks and spent 80 days in the NICU. I became a stay-at-home dad and had to rebuild my idea of what being useful meant. In 2020 I started Creating Order From Chaos as a consulting business, and after I got certified I turned it toward coaching for ADHD, Autistic, and AuDHD adults and families.
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I do this work because I'm not willing to let anyone else spend thirty-five years the way I did.
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How I work
I use a values-and-strengths approach that I brought over from project management. We start with an honest assessment of your values, strengths, resources, constraints, and the places things keep breaking. Then we build systems that lean on the strengths and work around the rest by delegating, reducing, or dropping the task. I'm not trying to fix anyone, myself included. I help people build lives that fit the brain they have.
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Where else I work
I'm Operations Director of the Men's ADHD Support Group, a nonprofit that supports 27,000 neurodivergent men through weekly calls and community. I also run the ADHD Parent Support Group, a Facebook community of 46,000 parents of neurodivergent kids, with monthly live support calls.
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I sit on the board of Dueling Minds, a nonprofit for the AuDHD community, and I'm Marketing Lead for the International Conference on ADHD, working with CHADD, ADDA, and ACO. At ScienceWorks Behavioral Healthcare, I work as an Executive Function & Parenting Coach alongside their therapists. And I co-host The DadDHD Podcast with Braden Young.
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Training & certifications
• Certified ADHD Coach, with Distinction, IPHM Certified Excellence Program
• ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP), PESI
• Certified Professional Coach, Life Coach Training Institute
• Certified Life Coach, Life Coach Training Institute
• Bachelor's degree, Business Management
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You can see the certificates themselves on my Certifications page.
The first call is free. Tell me what's going on, and let's see how I can help.