Speaker and author of The Right Room
Helping managers see why their team keeps missing the mark
Racheal Pallares has spent about 20 years helping organizations hire and keep good people. Her talks show managers where communication breaks down on their teams and what they can change right away, drawing on a decade of work with employees who have autism and ADHD.
You control the culture inside your team. • Direct isn’t mean. • What changed wasn’t my brain. What changed was the room I was put in. • I wasn’t smarter. I was just uninterrupted. • You control the culture inside your team. • Direct isn’t mean. • What changed wasn’t my brain. What changed was the room I was put in. • I wasn’t smarter. I was just uninterrupted.
What managers walk away with
Each talk is built from her book, The Right Room, and from the teams she has trained. Every one ends with practices a manager can put to use with their own team.
Breakout or workshop
Change Management That Works for How Employees Think
Most change plans are written for one way of taking in information. Racheal shows leaders where a rollout loses employees and how to design the change so it lands with the whole team.
Keynote or breakout
Building the Right Room: How Managers Change Culture One Team at a Time
The culture people feel every day is set inside their own team. Racheal shows managers the small daily practices that shape it, with or without a company-wide program.
Breakout or workshop
Fewer Missed Handoffs: Designing Work Around Cognitive Differences
Work slips most often in the handoff, when a task moves to the next person and the expectation stays in someone’s head. Racheal shows managers how to design assignments and handoffs around cognitive differences so fewer details get lost.
Keynote or breakout
Retaining Employees Through Change: Cognitive Load and the Manager’s Role
Each new tool or reorganization adds to the cognitive load employees carry, and managers absorb it first. Racheal shows how to spot that load early and adjust the work so employees stay through the change.
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From The Right Room
You control the culture inside your team.
Racheal wrote that line for the manager who is waiting on a company-wide initiative before changing anything. Her talks start with what a manager can do inside their own team this week.
What early readers of The Right Room are saying
“Finally, a book that gets past awareness. I have read a shelf of books that explain autism and ADHD. This is the first one that showed me how they actually show up at work, in the meeting that changed at the last minute and the shirt nobody thought twice about handing out, and then told me what to do about it.”
Felicity Smith
CEO and former head of talent at a Fortune 500
“Racheal Pallares shines a light on the effort that can go unseen in everyday working life, and reminds us to ask people what helps them do their best work rather than assume a diagnosis gives us the answers.”
Jayne Fox
ADHD Coach and Neurodiversity Educator, New Zealand
“The Right Room courageously explores the importance of shifting our workplaces to one that enables human capability for the future.”
Tara Langan
Founder, Career TLC, Canada
The book
The Right Room
Building Teams Where Autism, ADHD, and Other Cognitive Differences Succeed Together
Racheal’s book opens with the recess she dreaded as a child and follows the question that shaped her career: why does a capable person struggle in one setting and do well in another? It gives managers practical tools they can use without waiting for an organizational mandate.
Launching November 11, 2026
Bring Racheal to your team or event
Racheal speaks in person and virtually, and she shapes each talk around your audience and the problems they are working on.
