I’ve known many people who have had to wrestle with dyslexia. Family, friends, work colleagues… the struggle is not just in being wired a different way from what’s ‘normal’ but that it’s so easy to be given the label ‘failure’, ’stupid’ or ‘lazy’.
If you are, or know someone,who’s struggled with dyslexia, then let me introduce you to one of your champions – Kate Griggs. In the UK she’s unified and focused organizations that have supported dyslexia and created significant change in the way it’s seen and supported in schools. She engaged fellow dyslexics like Jamie Oliver, Orlando Bloom, Robbie Williams and Richard Branson in her cause. And she’s now looking out beyond the UK for what’s next…
In our conversation we talk about:
- Just why a disproportional number of millionaires are dyslexic
- The tipping point that got her involved in this movement
- How she built her strategy step by step to be able to influence the UK government on the education policy
- The role of courage and compassion in continuing on.
You can see and support Kate and Xtraordinary People’s terrific work at www.xtraordinarypeople.com
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Those who like Hugh MacLeod’s cartoons and writing like them a lot, and I’m one of those people. His cartoons are wise, abrasive and often cut to the heart of what it means to do Great Work, to find your own path and to stay human in the corporate world – or as he puts it in this interview, “figure out what’s really going on.” In fact, he often refers to this cartoons as ‘cubicle bombs’ – little explosions that disrupt Business As Usual. 
