Who’s ready
to get super
UNCOMFORTABLE?

“I left the workshop with an entirely different understanding of Autism and Neurodivergence. Chelsea’s vulnerability and passion for demonstrating the inner workings of an Autistic mind actually helped me realize I’m likely Neurodivergent myself! “

-Tabitha V.
Director of HR | Wintham Technologies

AUTISM and NEURODIVERSITY INCLUSION?

Not your (neuro)typical HR Workshop…

My hope is to help you see how those “quirky” team members can be the answer to some of your more difficult bottlenecks and how they can become your lowest-maintenance, highest performing all-stars.

Is that prospect exciting to you?

Let’s look at it from an Autistic perspective:

As an Autistic consultant on inclusion and business strategy, in order to justify a reason to humanize staff that makes you uncomfortable and who require some empathy, I have to prove to you that it’s financially viable to do so. That is a standard of business language and requirement for investment.

If that statement is uncomfortable to hear, imagine seeing the world in a framework that does nothing but prove this to you with every action you and or organization takes. Is that a place or a group of people you’d feel comfortable communicating with? And more importantly: Are you ok with operating like this now with the definitive knowledge that it is actually physically harming these team members?

What’s in it for you?
DO YOU LIKE MONEY?

Money is why we’re here, right? Most of the time, money is the only reason why your employee is there.
If you’re not sure if you believe that, ask yourself this:

Would you come to this place every week day and put on the clothes you wear here and work with these people for free? If the company stopped paying you, and if you had enough money to not worry about needing to make more, would you keep doing this every day?

If you answer is “no,” congratulations! You’ve just completed your first step of unmasking!
If your answer is “yes,” then I am SO happy you’re in the position of your dreams, and I’m about to make you even better at it by helping you understand a bit about the untapped potential that lies in your team members who are a little “different.”

But what is it that makes us a little different?

There’s something kind of “off” about us, right?

“When he questions me it undermines my authority.”

“Her emails are so long with too much info. Who does that?”

“She asks way too many questions for such a simple concept.”

“They always keep the lights off in their office, it’s weird.”

We just don’t seem to get it…

“Why can’t she just play the game like everyone else?”

“Because the game is a waste of time, and to your organization, time is money.
As an Autistic person, energy is my currency and you are forcing me to waste it on theatrics when I could utilize it to make you more money and save me more energy.”

“She’s amazingly clever, but she is so blunt.”

“I don’t have the energy to force myself to perform a tone for the sake of your comfort because I used it on finding this solution that could save us incredible amounts of resources instead.”

“She’s so rude in meetings. She feels like she needs to call me out and try to embarrass me.”

“You are directly responsible for an essential function of our jobs which you are not executing. We have scheduled meeting times for the purpose of moving projects forward and when you are the element that is preventing that, I will address it in that place and time because it is precisely what that place and time is for: Accountability.”

We have “Communication issues.”

“ANSWER
TRUTHFULLY.”

“CARE
ABOUT
OTHERS.”

“NEVER
LIE.”

“BE
HONEST.”

“BE
YOURSELF.”

“How are you doing today? How was your weekend?”

“I don’t feel well today. I was so exhausted from work last week that I had to choose between feeding myself this weekend or doing laundry. I couldn’t get to the laundry so the sweater I’m wearing today is itchy and it makes me want to burst into a swarm of flaming bees and it’s also exhausting me and I’m wondering how I will make it today without breaking down into tears.”

“She overshares and I don’t know how to process or feel about honest, real information that goes beyond basic acknowledgment.
It makes me uncomfortable so I’m just going to avoid her from now on and never actually communicate to her why.”

You’re about to learn a lot about us, and you’re about to learn at lot about YOU.