Brandon Slade

Brandon Slade was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. He struggled with academics throughout high school, but it wasn’t until he attended college as a student-athlete that learning became significantly more difficult. He recognized that his brain worked differently than those of his peers, and he did not know how to successfully balance sports, school, and the social aspects of his collegiate life. After struggling academically, getting diagnosed with ADHD, and re-enrolling in college, he finally figured out ways to implement habits, routines, and learning strategies that enabled him to succeed as a student. He graduated with degrees in early childhood education and special education, received his master’s degree from Arizona State University in special education, and earned an education specialist degree in school psychology from the University of Colorado. Since recovering from academic setbacks his freshman year, his focus has remained the same: understand how the ADHD brain works. After teaching special education for 12 years, he founded an education startup: Untapped Learning. Untapped opened in 2018 and their focus parallels his own—to help students with executive functioning challenges, specifically ADHD and dyslexia. Untapped currently coaches hundreds of students with executive function challenges.