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Assess Your Executive Function, Free 12-Question Check-In

Take the free executive function check-in. 12 questions reflecting on impulse control, cognitive flexibility, working memory, and planning, grounded in executive function research. Instant results showing your cognitive control profile with neurotype connections. This is a self-reflection tool, not a clinical assessment.

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The basics

What is the Executive Function test?

Executive function is your brain's management system — the cognitive processes that let you plan, focus, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks. This check-in reflects on four core domains drawn from executive function research: Impulse Control, Cognitive Flexibility, Working Memory, and Planning & Organisation.

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Executive function difficulties are central to both ADHD and autism, but in different patterns. ADHD typically shows Working Memory + Impulse Control challenges. Autism typically shows Cognitive Flexibility + Planning challenges. Understanding your specific profile helps target the right strategies and accommodations.

Executive function is also state-dependent, not just trait-dependent — it dips under stress, poor sleep, hunger, and sensory overload, and recovers with rest. That is why a strong day and a scattered day can both be real for the same person. The aim of this check-in is not to label you, but to show which domain tends to give way first so you can build external scaffolding — lists, reminders, routines — exactly where it earns its keep.

What you get

What You'll Discover

Your 4-domain executive function profile, where your cognitive control is strongest and weakest
ADHD vs. autism pattern, your profile mapped against typical neurodivergent patterns
Targeted strategies, specific tools and techniques for your weak domains
Workplace implications, which accommodations match your executive function profile

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  • Executive function is a set of cognitive processes including working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control. These processes let you plan ahead, focus attention, remember instructions, and manage multiple tasks. Think of it as your brain's CEO, the part that decides what to focus on and what to ignore.

  • Not exactly. Executive function difficulties are a core feature of ADHD, but they also appear in autism, depression, traumatic brain injury, and other conditions. ADHD specifically involves Working Memory and Impulse Control. This Check-In helps identify which domains are affected in your case.

  • Yes. Executive function can be strengthened through targeted strategies (external systems, routines, tools), cognitive training, exercise, sleep improvement, and in some cases medication. The key is knowing which domains to target — which this Check-In helps identify.

  • Impulse Control (pausing before acting and resisting distraction), Cognitive Flexibility (switching between tasks or shifting approach when something isn't working), Working Memory (holding and using information in the moment), and Planning & Organisation (breaking goals into steps and sequencing them). Most people are stronger in some domains than others — the profile shows your particular shape, not a single score.

  • Because it is state-dependent, not fixed. Sleep debt, stress, hunger, illness, and sensory overload all temporarily reduce executive capacity, while rest and routine restore it. A scattered day after a bad night isn't a character flaw — it's your management system running low on fuel.

  • Externalise the load rather than relying on willpower: written checklists and reminders for Working Memory, breaking tasks into the smallest next step for Planning, removing distractions and adding friction for Impulse Control, and building flexible routines for Cognitive Flexibility. The most effective tools are the ones aimed at your weakest domain — which is exactly what this check-in helps you pinpoint.

  • No. This is a self-reflection tool, not a clinical assessment, and it cannot diagnose ADHD, autism, or anything else. Executive function difficulties appear across many conditions and in people with none. If your results resonate and the difficulties affect daily life, a qualified professional is the right place to take it further.

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Discover your Executive Function profile. 12 questions, 2 min.

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For hiring teams

Keep this one out of the hiring decision

This screener touches health. A screener is not a diagnosis, and questions about health or disability before an offer are restricted in many jurisdictions.

Health-adjacent. If you need to know whether someone can plan the work, give them the work.

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