Rebecca Alley

<p>Welcome to Serendipity Soup! The antidote to celebrity success podcasts.</p><br><p>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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;</p><br><p>She was diagnosed with autism relatively late in life and she and her colleagues have learned to work with that diagnosis.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><br><p>Links to Becca's LinkedIn page and some of the programmes she talks about in the podcast are below:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Becca on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-alley-csm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-alley-csm/</a></li><li>The Western Wall: <a href="https://www.touristisrael.com/western-wall/15946/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.touristisrael.com/western-wall/15946/</a></li><li>Brithright Israel: <a href="https://www.birthrightisrael.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.birthrightisrael.com/</a></li><li>Linking North Carolina with Innovative Talent (LiNC-IT): <a href="https://linc-it.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linc-it.org/</a></li><li>Autism Society of North Carolina: <a href="https://www.autismsociety-nc.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.autismsociety-nc.org/</a></li><li>TEACCH Autism Program: <a href="https://teacch.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://teacch.com/</a></li></ul><b