Welcome to Serendipity Soup! The antidote to celebrity success podcasts.
This month's guest is Rebecca Alley. Becca works as a project management officer at a large bank now, but she started out her career wanting to be a marine scientist studying dolphins and sea turtles. That didn’t work out, so she ended up in fast food, an industry she maintains builds skills that are generally under-recognised by society as a whole.
She was diagnosed with autism relatively late in life and she and her colleagues have learned to work with that diagnosis. In fact, Becca says – and I agree with her – that the idea of a one-way street where you have to work around someone’s perceived disability isn’t a good way of looking at the issue. Instead, Becca talks eloquently about how her autism has driven her to improve the way her company works and how that has been recognised by senior management.
Links to Becca's LinkedIn page and some of the programmes she talks about in the podcast are below: