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Book facts
Title The Right Room
Subtitle Building Teams Where Autism, ADHD, and Other Cognitive Differences Succeed Together
Author Racheal Pallares
Publication date November 11, 2026
Formats Hardcover, paperback, Kindle
Length 29 chapters in five parts
Category Business, workplace culture
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Short bio
Racheal Pallares is a human systems designer who has spent her career designing work around cognitive differences, including autism and ADHD. 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). When she’s not working, you can find her around Pittsburgh, floating down the river, hiking, baking, and entertaining friends and family.
Long bio
Racheal Pallares is a human systems designer who has spent her career designing work around cognitive differences, including autism and ADHD. She redesigns how work moves through an organization when the pace of business changes or a team cannot retain its talent, and she works directly with managers, because that is where work is assigned, handed off and finished. She has led multi-year workforce redesign for public agencies, developed managers inside the Fortune 500, and holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology from Southern New Hampshire University.
Her work grew from both professional practice and personal experience. In The Right Room, Pallares draws on her own experience alongside years spent working with employees, managers, and organizations to examine what happens when capable people are asked to succeed inside systems that do not fit the way they think.
Questions Racheal loves
Every question comes from a story in the book, so the conversation starts in the middle of something real.
- In second grade you spent recess in a room across the building, and one day you snuck out to the playground. What did those ten minutes teach you about work?
- Your one regret about sneaking out is that you didn’t bring Jack. Who is the Jack on most teams?
- An audit team’s whole retention plan was pizza on Fridays. What are companies still ordering pizza for instead of changing?
- Someone says “the coffee pot is empty” and walks away. Why is that sentence a leadership problem?
- You don’t recommend the feedback sandwich. What happens to the part in the middle?
- You describe injustice at work as a T-shirt, lotion or aspirin. What’s the difference, and which one are most people carrying?
- Can a manager be too kind? What did Jason miss with Emily?
- “I wasn’t smarter. I was just uninterrupted.” What does a ten-second interruption really cost?
- A security guard once knocked on your car window in a parking lot. What did he say, and why did you end the book with it?
- What is one sentence a reader can say at work tomorrow without mentioning a diagnosis?
