# You Got Promoted. Now What? AuDHD Leadership, Unspoken Rules, and the Masking Tax | Dr. Bowen Marshall

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Podcast: [The AuDHD Boss: Neurodiversity at Work with Brett Whitmarsh](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-audhd-boss-neurodiversity-at-work-with-brett-whitmarsh-7118611)
Published: 2026-04-11T18:49:26+00:00
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## Resource

Getting promoted because you're good at your job is the easy part. Most AuDHD professionals find out quickly that the role they were promoted into requires skills nobody taught them and nobody mentioned were part of the deal. Brett sits down with Dr. Bowen Marshall, PhD, a licensed psychotherapist, author, and career coach specializing in ADHD, Autism, and neurodivergent career development. Dr. Marshall works with ADHDers, AuDHDers, and Autistics to help them build systems, workflows, and leadership approaches that work for their brains at work and in life. The conversation starts where a lot of AuDHD careers start to get complicated: outperforming everyone around you, getting promoted because of it, and then discovering that managing people is a completely different job than doing the work. Dr. Marshall introduces a Harvard Business Review leadership framework that describes this pattern specifically. From there they get into the unwritten rules most corporate environments run on, how warmth and competence function as the two factors that shape how you're perceived at work, and what happens when you're four steps ahead of the room and keep getting dismissed for it. The conversation closes on a distinction worth understanding clearly: the difference between masking and code switching. Most people treat these as the same thing. They aren't, and the difference matters when you're trying to figure out where your energy is actually going. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Part 2 covers late diagnosis, burnout, and the decision of whether to disclose your diagnosis at work. Connect with Dr. Bowen Marshall: Substack: https://substack.com/@bowentylermarshall TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drbotyler YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrBoTyler Instagram: https://www.i…

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