I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)

A senior director at GitHub shares how she uses automations in the GitHub Copilot desktop app to manage the invisible overhead of leadership — meeting prep, launch tracking, stale PRs, and career logging. As an AuDHD professional, she frames automations as an accessibility tool that narrows the gap between her best and worst executive-function days, freeing up mental space for actual human leadership.