Frequently asked questions.

A Spiky Profile is a leadership framework by Dr. Sven Mulfinger, built on the spiky profile concept from occupational psychology, that maps where a leader's thinking creates exceptional leverage (spikes) and where it meets friction (valleys).

It covers ten operational dimensions, from systemic synthesis and crisis hyperfocus to routine cadence and calendar fragmentation. Neurodisruptors uses it to design the roles, rhythms and support around a leader instead of asking for an even profile across every domain.

Partly: ADHD is one of several ways a mind can run on a spiky profile, alongside autism, giftedness, dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia.

Many leaders recognise themselves in more than one. The work focuses on how your mind operates as a leader, with or without a diagnosis. It does not diagnose any condition; that stays with doctors and psychologists.

Neurodiversity describes variation across a group, so a team or a company can be neurodiverse, while neurodivergent describes one person whose cognitive profile differs from the dominant norm.

Calling a single person neurodiverse is common and technically muddled. The word neurodivergent also carries at least three meanings (medical, advocacy and operational), which is why boardroom conversations about it go wrong so easily. Three frames for the same minds sets them side by side.

Dr. Sven Mulfinger is the founder of Neurodisruptors and a Barcelona-based executive coach, offsite facilitator and strategic advisor to founders and C-suite teams across Europe.

He trained as an engineer, holds a PhD in biotech engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and is a founding partner of Kuma Partners. He is writing The Non-Linear Operating System with research collaborators at IESE Business School and IE Business School. Neurodisruptors grew out of his own ADHD diagnosis at 50.

No: the work starts from how your mind operates as a leader, so a formal diagnosis is neither required nor assessed.

Some clients have a diagnosis of ADHD, autism, dyslexia or another profile, others suspect one and many simply know they think differently. Questions about diagnosis or treatment belong with a doctor or psychologist.

Yes: ADHD can be diagnosed at any age, including in your forties or fifties, often once the coping strategies that worked for decades stop producing results.

High ability and tightly built personal systems can hold performance together for a long time. A diagnosis needs a full assessment by a psychiatrist or another qualified clinician, including a look back at childhood. Dr. Sven Mulfinger writes about his own diagnosis at 50 and what it changed in how he leads.

For a formal assessment of ADHD, autism, dyspraxia or giftedness as an adult, Neurodisruptors refers clients to Dr. Andreina Mendez, a medical doctor who sees adults in person in Madrid and London and remotely across Europe.

A diagnosis is not needed for the work, but it can help. Many leaders start asking once one of their children has been diagnosed. Understanding how your own mind operates can then be a relief for parents and children alike. Sometimes you simply want to know for sure, which a medical assessment can give you. You can contact Dr. Mendez through andreinamendez.com or LinkedIn and mention that Neurodisruptors referred you.

Conventional coaching often works on rounding out weaknesses, while strategic sparring with Neurodisruptors is a confidential thinking partnership for founders and CEOs whose minds move faster than standard operating rhythms.

Sessions focus on live decisions, cognitive load and the structures around the leader, such as roles, calendar design and board communication. It is executive work and involves no therapy.

Private sparring is a confidential, retainer-based partnership with Dr. Sven Mulfinger, held in person in Barcelona or by secure video, with direct access between sessions during critical decisions.

It starts with a free 30-minute introductory call to check fit. Sessions run in English, Spanish, German or French. Meetings in other European cities are arranged when needed.

The first 30-minute call is free, the Executive Operating Review costs €1,950 for three sessions including the Spiky Profile and a six-month private sparring partnership costs €9,850.

Prices exclude VAT. The Review fee is credited in full if you start a sparring partnership within 30 days. Board workshops, offsites and keynotes are quoted per engagement. See how to start.

Yes: Neurodisruptors, led by Dr. Sven Mulfinger in Barcelona, offers confidential strategic sparring for founders and CEOs with ADHD, giftedness, dyslexia and other spiky profiles.

Work takes place in person in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich and Brussels, or remotely, in four languages.

For many non-linear leaders the real constraint is energy rather than time, so a calendar of evenly spaced blocks works against how their minds perform.

Deep strategic work needs motivation, activation and physical capacity to line up. Sparring helps leaders plan around those peaks, protect them and move routine work elsewhere.

A board supports a founder with ADHD best by reading uneven output as a pattern to design around, with clear roles, the right operating partner and reporting formats that fit how the founder thinks.

It means judging decision quality across cycles rather than week-to-week consistency. The half-day offsite Bridging the Founder-Board Interface works through this with boards, investors and executive committees and keeps the conversation on leadership and governance.

Separate the work: settle which decisions genuinely need the founder, write down what you decide alone and keep the conversation on operating questions rather than on anyone's health.

Reliability across a week is the wrong measure for someone who works in cycles. You can own reporting, cadence, decision logs and the rhythm of the week. The founder's own regulation stays with them, supported where needed by a coach or a clinician. How to work with a non-linear founder covers the role in more detail.

No: the Spiky Profile is exclusively a leadership and management framework designed to map executive leverage and workplace friction.

It does not provide medical, psychological or psychiatric diagnosis for ADHD, autism or other neurodevelopmental conditions. It is designed to sit alongside clinical assessment. Neurodiversity, neurodivergence and the non-linear operating system explains how the medical, advocacy and leadership views fit together.

Neurodisruptors offers two principal formats: a 45-minute keynote (Asymmetric Minds in the C-Suite) and half-day alignment offsites (Bridging the Founder-Board Interface) for boards, venture partners and executive committees.

An enterprise workshop, Designing Systems for Cognitive Spikes, is also available for executive teams and HR leaders.

The framework draws on ongoing academic research collaborations with faculty at IESE Business School and IE Business School.

This research is combined with field analysis across more than 50 serial entrepreneurs and CEOs with a non-linear mind.