YOUR NEXT EMPLOYEE SHOULD BE AUTISTIC: How Your Company Can Unlock the Untapped Workforce that Microsoft, SAP, and JP Morgan are utilizing to get ahead of the competition.

Amanda Cantrell

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Employers are perennially on the hunt for unicorn employees: People who love their jobs, are eager to work, and offer exceptional skills. But what if, instead of fighting with each other over a small pool of workhorses, they could tap into a forest of unicorns that’s right under their noses?

Autistic adults are those unicorns: hard-working, skilled, loyal, and with great attention to detail. So why are so many of them unemployed? Why does this gap between supply and demand exist? If these workers aren’t any good, then why have mega-cap companies spent millions on programs to hire them? 

As financial journalist Amanda Cantrell and autistic Certified Financial Planner Andrew Komarow explain in Your Next Employee Should Be Autistic: How your company can unlock the untapped workforce that Microsoft, SAP, and JP Morgan are utilizing to get ahead of the competition, it’s because autistic and neurodivergent employees offer unique advantages to employers that can’t be found elsewhere. What’s more, every company can access this talent – and boost their bottom line while also vastly improving the lives of these workers.

This book will reveal the secrets of large companies who have intentionally employed autistic workers to great financial success – and explain how any business can do it better, and way more easily, than the big guys.

Amanda Cantrell is an award-winning business journalist who has covered the financial markets for 20 years. She is currently the US investing team leader at Bloomberg News, overseeing a team that covers Wall Street, institutional asset management, and more. She was previously the finance features editor at Insider and spent 15 years before that at Institutional Investor. Her story for that publication, “They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why,” highlighted the struggles and successes of autistic finance professionals. She earned a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University, where she briefly taught as an adjunct professor.

Amanda has made numerous television appearances as a commentator on the hedge fund industry, including on CNBC’s Squawk Box and the Today Show, and she is also a frequent interviewer and moderator at conferences and industry panel discussions. In her spare time, she is an editor for the Prison Journalism Project, a nonprofit organisation that publishes journalism, essays, poetry, and fiction by incarcerated writers throughout the United States. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.