Corporate Consulting and Workshops
Whether you need coaching and strategies for working with your current employees or you are looking for more general knowledge for how to recruit and manage employees with autism, I can help you.
It’s true that the autism community experiences unemployment rates as high as 90% but hiring us is about more than an altruistic social goal. It also makes your company stronger and more competitive.
Consider the following benefits.
- Having a diverse staff can bring new clients when more diverse consumers see someone like them working for your company.
- Management and HR leaders in your company will expand their skill set and learn new strategies that can improve relationships with all employees.
- Your staff will learn to be more accepting and inclusive, which will impact their lives outside of the workplace and have a positive impact on society.
- Young people with autism will feel more confident in pursuing their career goals when they see that other autistic people have successful careers at your company.
- Your company can become a respected leader in the diversity & inclusion movement.
- Autistic employees are reliable and loyal. In a climate where employees stay at a job for about five years, the return on investment of training an autistic employee is much higher.
- Autistic employees have strong attention to detail and will notice things that your neurotypical employees will not, things that can save your company money and prevent negative PR.
Consulting & Coaching Services
Leadership coaching
I will work one-on-one or in small groups with your leadership and HR department to develop successful strategies for diversifying your staff. This can include creating strategies for attracting and recruiting new employees as well as strategies for managing existing employees.
Staff coaching
For companies who have existing employees who need coaching on executive functioning and communication strategies, I will work one-on-one with your employee, either remotely or on the job site, to develop strategies to meet individual needs for skill building. Coaching topics include
- Prioritizing
- Time management
- Task initiation and completion
- Communicating successfully with co-workers and supervisors
- Information and sensory processing
- Many other common challenges
All coaching services are billed at $125 per hour. Annual packages are available.
Workplace environment assessment
If you would like feedback on how welcoming your company culture is for people with autism and related developmental disabilities, you can hire me to “work” at your company for a day. I will observe and provide a summary at the end of the day of what you are doing well and what needs improvement.
This can be especially helpful at the beginning of our working relationship and repeated after a year to see how our strategies have positively impacted your company culture and work environment.
Cost: $750 per 8-hour day. Longer assessment periods can be arranged.
Workshops
Each workshop topic can be delivered in a 2-hour session for $1500 or a more hands-on 3-hour session for $2,000. Custom workshops are available on request and prices vary.
- Autism 101
- Autism Inclusion
- Autism and Communication
- Executive Functioning
- Sensory and Information Processing
- Preventing & Responding to Shutdowns or Meltdowns in the Workplace
- The Neurodiversity Movement
Annual plans
- $3,500 annually for 25 hours of leadership or staff coaching, including up to 1 workshop
- $6,000 annually for 50 hours of coaching, including up to 2 workshops, plus annual assessment
- $12,000 annually for 100 hours, including up to 3 workshops, plus annual assessment and option for custom workshops