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From Dyslexia
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We Don’t Need No Education
Today I am Managing Director of my own consulting firm, Aha! Consulting, that provides consulting services in all areas of change management with clients from all over Australia across multiple sectors. I am part facilitator, change agent, engagement professional and social researcher with a wealth of experience with diverse clients and sectors. I’ve work with grass roots community organisations, with all tiers of government, commercial firms, multi- nationals and even the United Nations.
However, if you examined my school record, none of this seemed likely.
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Back in those days concepts like dyslexia, dysgraphia and the like were quite foreign, and the education system struggled to consider the possibility that part of the issue was how students where taught. Thus, if there wasn’t a problem with the education system, I must have been the problem. At such a young age how could I deny that there were certainly enough report cards and exam results to prove this theory.
But in reality I wasn’t the problem, I was smart, I had a wealth of other capabilities and natural leadership. Yet the system was designed to fit a population into specific boxes and if you don’t fit that box, first you get blamed and then you get left out.
Needless to say I failed all my year 12 subjects except for Chemistry (thank to some extra tutoring).
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However, in spite of my so called ‘failure’, I continued with my remedial work, I worked, I travelled and discovered
In fact, skip forward through my life and you will see those high school experiences still pop back as seeds of doubt and concerns that some will one day find out what you are really like.
The fact is that the deepest understanding of the world does not come from books but from what and how we learn from each other. Learning and working in this way, surpasses disciplines, cultures and is equally accessible to all.
To my surprise, it’s by not trying to hide things like poor spelling that made me more accessible to many. By not choosing to be owned by these labels people seek ME out and not my qualifications.
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