Your Guide on the Path to Neurodivergent Success
For Individuals
Professional coaching for neurodivergent individuals.
Are you brute-forcing your way through a professional world that wasn't designed for your brain? Estimates are that up to 20% of the workforce is neurodivergent — but most workplace systems, career advice, and productivity frameworks were built with everyone else in mind.
Often, the challenges neurodivergent professionals face aren't a reflection of their ability. They're a reflection of the mismatch. The wrong systems. Unwritten rules that nobody explained. Environments that drain rather than energize. Guideway helps neurodivergent professionals understand how their brain works, navigate the neurotypical world around them, and build careers that are both successful and sustainable.
For Organizations
Consulting services for organizations committed to building a workplace where neurodivergent employees can be and do their best.
If as many as 1 in 5 of your workforce are neurodivergent, are you missing out on talent, or failing to give all of your employees a chance to do their best?
The challenges neurodivergent people face in the workplace often aren't inherent in the individual but are contextual: Poorly crafted hiring practices, workplaces that are unaccommodating, miscommunication across neurotypes.
Neurodiversity is about accommodating people who think, and perceive the world, in different ways, and fostering communication and understanding between people of all neurotypes. Guideway helps organizations identify and implement (often small) changes to help break down these barriers and enable all to do their best work.
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form — an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other."
"The statistical average is not a standard to aspire to — it's just a description of what most people happen to do."
“Why not propose that just as biodiversity is essential to ecosystem stability, so neurodiversity may be essential for cultural stability?”
“There’s this untapped pool of talent and innovation that the world misses out on because we don’t create sufficient space and properly support people who think and process the world differently.”
"The golden rule of neurodiversity: Respect the bodily, sensory, and cognitive needs of others as you would want your own to be respected, whether or not you understand the reasons for those needs."
Helping Neurodivergent People Succeed . . .
Guideway LLC is the creation of David Wainberg. We're focused on guiding and supporting neurodivergent people to succeed, whether that's coaching them directly, supporting them through their workplace, or helping businesses to be more neurodivergent-friendly.
Individuals
- Corporate: early career to senior exec
- Entrepreneurs
- Career-focused creatives
- College students
Organizations
- Businesses of any size
- Non-profits
- Schools and government
. . . On Their Own Terms
We take a neuro-affirming approach in which we aim to recognize the unique characteristics of neurodivergent brains and work with them rather than trying to "correct" them. We want neurodivergent people to experience success as their authentic selves, not through masking and striving to be more neurotypical.