About Racheal
Racheal Pallares
Racheal Pallares redesigns how work moves through an organization when the pace of business changes or a team cannot retain its talent. Her work is grounded in cognitive differences, including autism and ADHD, and in how they reveal where a system is creating friction for everyone. She has led multi-year workforce redesign for public agencies, developed managers inside the Fortune 500, and is the author of The Right Room (November 2026).
How she got here
As a child, Racheal dreaded recess while most kids counted down to it. That memory opens her book, and it points to the question she has worked on ever since: why does a capable person struggle in one setting and do well in another?
Her career began in recruiting, which she still loves. From there she led the team that ran staff augmentation programs placing people with autism and ADHD, about 500 placements in all, with roughly three in four of those employees staying on past the contract term.
That work led her to found the Neurodiversity Training Institute. She has since designed programs, authored procedures and developed managers at organizations as large as the Fortune 500 and as small as 20 people. She also leads a multi-year engagement with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, where she wrote the standard operating procedures for building universal design into how the Commission hires and manages its people.
Racheal holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology from Southern New Hampshire University and is currently pursuing a doctorate in human and organizational psychology. She lives in Saint Petersburg, PA, about 90 minutes north of Pittsburgh.
What she’s known for
Showing managers why the same miscommunication keeps happening
Racheal has a knack for finding the request that was never said out loud and the process that only makes sense to the person who built it. Managers leave her sessions able to see where their team keeps missing the mark and what to say differently.
She also created the Certified Neurodiverse Leader certification, which trains managers to plan and assign work so that expectations are clear to everyone on the team.
You control the culture inside your team. The room your people walk into every morning is yours.
From The Right Room, Chapter 5
A fun fact for your introduction
In college, Racheal made balloon animals in restaurants and dressed up as a princess for kids’ birthday parties.
Media kit
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Short bio
Racheal Pallares redesigns how work moves through an organization when the pace of business changes or a team cannot retain its talent. Her work is grounded in cognitive differences, including autism and ADHD, and in how they reveal where a system is creating friction for everyone. She has led multi-year workforce redesign for public agencies, developed managers inside the Fortune 500, and is the author of The Right Room (November 2026).
Work with Racheal
Training for organizations runs through the Neurodiversity Training Institute. The Right Room has its own site with excerpts and copies for teams.
