NEURODIVERGENT LEADERSHIP IN TECH

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Who this is for:

Neurodivergent tech talent navigating complex environments.

→ High-achieving engineers and leaders who look successful on paper but feel they carry an invisible load.

→ Technical experts who've climbed the ladder and hit a ceiling, or now fear their career is no longer sustainable.

I show you how to navigate high-pressure leadership roles
maintaining both
personal alignment
and
high performance.

The Second Spine

My personal playbook to navigate tech as a neurodivergent leader, updated 2-4x a month.

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Who is
Luciana Santos?

Hey, I’m Luciana.

I'm a software engineering leader with 17 years in tech and a cognitive performance strategist specialized in optimizing how tech professionals' brains function in high-stakes environments.

For 7 years, I led engineering teams through aggressive deadlines and constant pivots at high-pressure organizations.
Each success came with a cognitive cost I couldn't see until it was too late.

What began as survival became expertise:

I learned to engineer the interface between my nervous system and my technical work, discovering patterns and protocols that transformed my performance without sacrificing well-being.

Today, I help high-performing tech professionals achieve sustainable cognitive excellence by:
Mapping the invisible architecture between their nervous system and technical performance
Debugging the system-level issues causing disconnect between external success and internal experience
Engineering personalized protocols for maintaining cognitive performance in high-pressure environments

This isn't productivity advice.
It's cognitive performance engineering for your most valuable technical asset:
your brain.

More About Me

Debug your career. Redesign your work.
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I dive deep into neuroscience, career design, and tactical playbooks to give you a unique, actionable take on how to grow.

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