This is what a working week at ASM can look like.
Monday. A senior director finds out she is autistic at forty three. She has led teams, delivered results, built a career. She has also been burning out every eighteen months and never understood why. We work through her history together. Masking in meetings. Saying yes to everything. No recovery time. Sensory overload she had been calling stress for twenty years. We rebuild her working week around how she actually functions. Within a few months she is still doing the same job. She is just not destroying herself to do it.
Tuesday morning. An employer calls us. They hired someone six months ago who is brilliant at the technical side of the job but is struggling with team dynamics. They have no idea what to do. We work with both sides. We help the employee understand how they are being read and help the manager understand what they are actually seeing. We translate between the two. Practical adjustments get agreed together. Two months later the employee is performing well and the manager has learned something they will use for the rest of their career.
Tuesday afternoon. A man in his forties finds out he is autistic after his child is assessed. Suddenly his entire career makes sense. The burnouts. The exits. The jobs he was brilliant at until something invisible shifted and he could not sustain it anymore. He does not need fixing. He needs someone to help him understand his own patterns, communicate them to his employer, and build a working life that does not require him to pretend to be someone else.
Wednesday morning. We are running a neurodiversity awareness session for a management team. Halfway through, a line manager goes quiet and then says “I think this might be me. I think I might be neurodivergent.” They are recognising something in themselves for the first time. It happens more often than you would expect.
Wednesday afternoon. Nature break.
Thursday. A graduate applies for forty seven jobs in six months. She is more qualified than most of the people interviewing her. She does not get past a single interview. Every one of them is designed to assess confidence, eye contact, and small talk. None of them are designed to assess whether she can do the job. We work with her on interview preparation, help her understand what employers are actually looking for, and advocate with the next employer to adapt their process. She gets the job.
Friday. No client meetings. No calls. This is the day I protect for me (other team members have a different day). Admin. Finance. Reporting. The written work that keeps everything running. This day deserves its own post. Coming soon.
So there you have it. An example of one week at ASM.
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