Break Down Barriers to Neurodivergent Success
I help neurodivergent people succeed, whether that's coaching them directly, supporting them through their workplace, or helping businesses to be more neurodivergent-friendly.
Helping Neurodivergent People Succeed . . .
. . . As individuals and in organizations.
I help neurodivergent professionals understand how they work best, navigate environments that weren't designed with them in mind, and build careers that are both successful and sustainable.
I also help organizations adapt to a neurodiversity model. Organizations often miss out on talent not because people can't do the work, but because the way hiring and the workplace is structured creates unnecessary barriers. I help organizations identify those barriers and make practical changes to hiring, management, communication, and workplace practices.
I use a neuroaffirming approach that recognizes the unique characteristics of neurodivergent brains and works with them rather than trying to "correct" them.
I advocate for neurodiversity, which means creating environments where people with different ways of thinking and perceiving the world can do their best work.
Often, relatively small changes can remove significant barriers and help more people do their best work.
Coaching for Individuals
- Corporate: early career to senior exec
- Entrepreneurs
- Career-focused creatives
- College and graduate students
Consulting for Organizations
If up to 20% of your workforce is neurodivergent, are you missing out on talent, or failing to give all of your employees a chance to do their best? I help organizations identify and implement (often small) changes to support neurodiversity and help all neurotypes do their best work.
- Businesses of any size
- Non-profits
- Schools and government
Training
- Businesses of any size
- Non-profits
- Schools and government
I've Lived it
Before starting Guideway, I had a successful career as a privacy lawyer, holding high-level executive positions at companies like Apple and The Trade Desk, as well as starting and running my own firms. What I didn't realize at the time was the extent to which I was brute-forcing my way through the challenges of being neurodivergent in a neurotypical world.
Despite my success, I can see now that I missed opportunities, and struggled for years with burnout, because I did not even know about, much less understand, my neurodivergence. Had I known, I almost surely would have done things differently.
Now, I use my experience to help others avoid the struggles I went through. I want neurodivergent people to experience success as their authentic selves, not through masking and striving to be more neurotypical.
Up to 20% of the workforce is neurodivergent, but most workplaces, career advice, and productivity frameworks were built with everyone else in mind.
Often, the barriers to success for neurodivergent professionals stem not from inherent limitations, but from a mismatch: systems that don't fit, unwritten rules that aren't obvious, and environments that drain rather than energize.
In the workplace, neurodivergent people face contextual challenges: Poorly crafted hiring practices, workplaces that are unaccommodating, miscommunication across neurotypes.
"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."