Career Coaching +
People Ops Strategy

My flavor of neurodiversity is that I like to understand systems. Understanding and making sense of systems is how I am able to best determine how I will move, interact, and engage. It also helps me identify the bare minimum I need to do on days when I am low on spoons. Thus, the practical aspect of learning how to business was both helpful for me as someone with a liberal arts background but also someone who is neurodivergent.

I gained strategies or tips for negotiating, engaging in power and politics at the workplace, and ways to gain and leverage influence to my advantage. These are the skills that make surviving and thriving in the corporate world easier for everyone, but especially for those of us who are neurodivergent.

Once it's about optics, it becomes personal. Code-switching, masking, the CROWN Act, AAVE, culture fit. Those are prime examples of where professionalism crosses the boundary into profiling.

When a company uses abstract descriptors that don't claim anything in particular, it gets the perfect ammunition to make anyone it deems inconvenient the problem at any time.

Either way, I’m now making sure I do self care, working on my coaching business, and getting one step closer to being financially independent enough to make decisions about my time and activities.

I learned that self-care was the key to maintaining my sanity, the one thing that my daughter’s advocacy relied on the most.