More and more adults are being diagnosed with ADHD or some sort of learning disability. How does one adjust to this new knowledge? In this episode, we'll be talking about how self-awareness can help them move through what was once a struggle and reveal their superpowers that may have lied dormant, but now are awaken with this new diagnosis.
Alex Gilbert spent the first half of her career working in leadership development, then she decided to start a consulting and coaching business that helps adults with learning disabilities and/or ADHD like herself who have been struggling in their careers. Her business, Cape-Able Consulting, was created to help them navigate their day-to-day workloads so that they feel supported and are able to reach their highest potential.
Here are the takeaways:
- Assess yourself: Understand how you think, how you learn, how you organize to create the right steps that will work for you in the future.
- Use best principles not best practices. Best practices assumes that one practice works for all. Best principles are more customized to the individual, identifying their goal and how they build on that is up to the individual.
- Often what people are exceptional at is right in front of them.
- Negative self-talk can come from social media and watching people's highlight reels. Don't forget that they have had to go through all the steps, hard work and time to get to their gold medal moments. Don't worry, you will too.
- Everyone is advocating for themselves, disability or not. There are a lot of ways to ask for accommodations without disclosing your disability or diagnosis.
- Celebrate those small moments that lead to the big victories and your success.
- When we can embrace what it is that makes us unique, we open up the doors to our special superpowers that tap into our greatness and our ability to make a difference in the world.
Learn more about Alexandra Gilbert at
Facebook and Linkedin: @CapeableconsultingLLC
Instagram: @iamcapeable
