Why do I specialize in coaching people who are neurodiverse? Because I speak that language.
For different thinkers, it’s so essential that we’re heard and understood, not corrected or judged. Especially for adults with dyslexia, the challenges go far beyond reading or spelling. They show up in leadership, communication, and connection with others.
As an International Neurodiversity Coach, I work with visual and kinesthetic learners who think differently and are ready to turn that into their greatest strength.
If you’ve ever felt like your brain doesn’t fit the standard mold, this video is for you.
Transcription:
I was recently at a conference, and someone asked me, why do you specialize in working with people that are neurodiverse, have dyslexia, ADHD, or autism, and or? And it was so simple to answer that. I said, I speak their language.
It’s really simple. Because I, too, am a variety of the traits within all of those buckets and more. I speak that language. I have researched that language. I understand how valuable and how really important it is that somebody hears us at a level of understanding, is not trying to correct it, change it, uh, judge it—oh, my goodness—and instead, it’s just validating. Yeah, that’s really happening.
And in particular, I find that’s really, really important, actually, of all the groups I mentioned, for dyslexics. Because dyslexia is so often diagnosed, um, if you’re lucky, when you’re in school. It becomes something that’s associated with learning only. ADHD and autism tend to be understood as crossing over into personal areas and so forth. But with dyslexia, typically most people are just like, oh, that’s just spelling and language challenges.
No, it’s not. And that’s the greater conversation and why it’s so important. As an adult, if you’re finding that you’re running into some of those challenges with your connection with people, with your communication, with your work environment—that’s ideal—and leading teams—oh, let’s not forget that one—and leading teams, it could be attached to some of what was part of, and is, your dyslexic brain.
And that is why my programs are so robust. That is why it’s so important that they have so many facets to them. And that’s why I love, love, love what I do. So it was really fun when he asked me, why do I, you know, why do I specialize that narrow? Can’t you help everybody?
Well, yeah, I can. And ideally, though, I help people that are high visual-thinking learners, high kinesthetic learners, that need to have communication with somebody that’s also a different thinker, just like them. So guess what? I’m a different thinker.
I’m JoyGenea, International Neurodiversity Coach and huge guide for leaders taking their different thinking and moving it up a level. Bye now.