Turn different into a superpower
Meanwhile, for Angelina Liu, commercial sales manager at SentinelOne, when she moved from Singapore to Australia at 17, she didn’t expect to find herself in cybersecurity, or to later discover how her ADHD would become one of her greatest strengths. Growing up, ADHD wasn’t something people discussed openly.
“Twenty-five years ago, there wasn’t a lot of knowledge about being on a spectrum, especially in Asia. The culture is just, ‘Oh, there’s something wrong with you’,” she says. “So, my parents decided very early on that I should go to Australia thinking people are more accommodating. When I came here, I loved it, because it was true.”
Angelina Liu
Angelina Liu
After studying biochemistry, Liu realized life in a lab wasn’t for her. She worked odd jobs, from selling barbecue rotisseries in regional Australia to driving a forklift, before finding her way into marketing, coding, and eventually cybersecurity sales. Her neurodivergence, however, made the transition to corporate life challenging. “When I entered corporate, it was hard because I would be very interested in things and excel at them, and if I wasn’t, it was very forceful for me,” she says. “But I’ve realized I could turn that struggle into kind of a superpower.”
