Rebecca Alexander
Transform workplace resilience and inclusion with Rebecca Alexander, speaker, psychotherapist and disability rights advocate. Rebecca works with organizations to build mental health frameworks, leadership through adversity, and inclusive cultures, delivering insights from her bestselling memoir adapted into major motion picture.
New York City United Kingdom
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Rebecca Alexander combines rare personal resilience with professional expertise as a psychotherapist, author and disability rights advocate navigating progressive deafness and blindness due to Usher syndrome type III. Her memoir "Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found" chronicles her extraordinary journey and is currently being adapted into a major motion picture. As an extreme athlete, she has summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, swum from Alcatraz to shore, and competed in challenging races.
Rebecca helps organizations transform perspectives on adversity by demonstrating how limitations can become catalysts for innovation and growth. Her unique insights on interdependence rather than independence challenge conventional thinking about disability, while her mental health curriculum provides practical frameworks for workplace inclusion and resilience building.
Audiences leave Rebecca's presentations with actionable strategies for embracing vulnerability as a leadership strength, practical approaches to building resilience through humor and community, and renewed perspective on how perceived limitations can become unexpected advantages. Her blend of professional expertise and lived experience creates memorable, perspective-shifting moments.
Book Rebecca to give your audience the rare combination of emotional inspiration and practical tools that drive meaningful organizational change.
Rebecca Alexander, a psychotherapist and extreme athlete who thrives despite progressive deafness and blindness, transforms organizational perspectives by demonstrating how limitations become catalysts for innovation and growth. Book Rebecca to give your audience the rare combination of emotional inspiration and practical tools that drive meaningful organizational change.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
Impermanence is one of the few absolute certainties in life–it’s also something that most of us avoid, resist, and fear despite its inevitability. Understanding and developing a relationship with impermanence is key to our ability to live deeply meaningful lives, in the present.
From an early age, we are taught that we must become independent-we strive for it, we’re praised for it, and we believe that being successful comes from mastering the art of independence. So how is it that the strongest and most cohesive communities grow and thrive because of the high value they place on interdependence? What is interdependence, why does it matter, and how does it help us thrive, grow, and be successful?
As an extreme athlete, author, and psychotherapist who is almost completely blind and deaf due to a rare genetic condition called Usher syndrome (type III), Rebecca Alexander will guide you to uncover your true potential to start leading a life that is worth celebrating. While we can not change the difficult situations we have experienced in the past, we can work to better understand and resolve the challenges we face today and be prepared for the future. Rebecca’s vulnerability, intelligence, keen insight and quick wit are simply a part of what make her such a captivating speaker. Her ability to engage her audience through emotion, in a safe and relatable way teaches us how to identify long-standing behavior patterns or negative belief systems and perceptions that may be holding us back from experiencing a more fulfilling and deeply meaningful life. If you are looking for extra support and guidance through a challenging time in your life or are just ready to move in a new, positive direction, Rebecca will motivate you to take the next steps towards achieving your goals.
Humor is a vital part of coping with life and developing resilience. We use humor to disarm ourselves, bridge the gap with others, cut tension, and help us tolerate discomfort and pain. While humor doesn’t take our pain away, it often soothes and connects us. Humor plays a demonstrable role in our ability to be flexible, distress tolerant, and to accept that many aspects of life can be remarkably out of our control.
How do we develop resilience in a world where we are conditioned to be overly sensitive, easily triggered, anxiety-ridden, and fearful? What would it mean if we learned how to live with fear rather than consumed and sometimes even paralyzed by it?
Living with a disability means you are the designated elephant in whatever space you occupy; subject to the discomfort, uncertainty, fear, pity, sensitivity, and projections of each person you encounter. Only you have the power to use your “otherness” as your strength and not fall into the trap of identifying as or playing the victim.
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