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Is Your Young Adult Struggling With Any of These Challenges?
Confidence
Anxiety
Overwhelm With Life
Identity
Career Direction
Making Friends
Navigating Transitions
Time Management
Planning
Keeping a Routine
Executive Functioning
Feeling Stuck
What We Offer
Our programs are designed by experts who have years of experience.
Programs
We cover confidence, executive functioning, job prep, and social skills in a live, supportive group format. Includes built-in parent support.
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Bite-sized learning on topics perfect for learning at their own pace between coaching sessions.
Mentorship and Coaching
Whether your young adult is just getting started or needs extra support navigating life, school, or work, our coaching provides structured, encouraging guidance tailored to their needs.
About us
We are a team of transformational coaches dedicated to empowering autistic young adults and their parents. Together, we break free from stagnation, ignite confidence, and create a compelling future. Through personalized 1:1 sessions, dynamic online programs, and supportive group coaching, we conquer anxiety, overcome depression, and cultivate a resilient identity of achievement and self-sufficiency, ultimately leading to independence.
Our top rated skills you can learn
Creating an Identity of confidence
Building routines and executive functioning skills
Navigating social situations and communication challenges
Setting personal, academic, or career goals
Developing independence
Meet our CEO, Blake Baumann
Hello, my name is Blake Baumann and I specialize in helping people with high functioning autism to unleash their genius and excel at managing the world around them so that they can live an extraordinary life.
My Story:
Autism came into my life at age 36 when my mini-me, my son, was diagnosed with it. For several years I denied it, not only for myself but also for my son. I even made sure my son’s school didn’t receive the diagnosis because I didn’t want my son treated any differently from other children because I knew the world wouldn’t. My wife, who worked in education and is the original one who pointed out that my son and I both had ASD, tried bringing up the conversation several times after the official diagnosis to which I would quickly shut her down.
The truth is I thought it would make me less of a person. I had worked extremely hard to overcome the many challenges that I faced in childhood and as an adult from social anxiety, communication awkwardness, sensory issues, and developing relationships to be an executive leader, speaker, husband, and father. Over the next few years with the help of my incredible wife, I was able to see all the things I achieved as a pathway to help other people with autism.
Through AIA, it’s my mission to help you and your loved ones to embrace and recognize what autism is…not a syndrome or disorder but a gift. Let me help you unleash your gift to live a truly extrodinary life.
How to Support Your Young Adult in Gaining Employment
Latest PostsHow to Support Your Young Adult in Gaining Employment
For many parents, helping a young adult with autism find and keep a job feels overwhelming. The truth is—employment success doesn’t start with a résumé. It starts with identity.
Step 1: Help Them Discover Their Strength Identity
Before job applications or interviews, help your young adult identify what makes them unique. Ask
What do you enjoy doing for long periods of time?
What do others often come to you for help with?
What activities give you energy, not drain it?
When they understand their strengths, they can look for roles that fit their wiring, not fight it.
Step 2: Build Confidence Through Small Wins
If the leap to full-time employment feels too big, start smaller: volunteer roles, internships, or part-time positions. These experiences build social comfort and professional identity.
Step 3: Coach the Process, Don’t Control It
Let them take ownership of the job search process—but stay nearby as a guide. You can role-play interviews, help them plan logistics, and celebrate effort, not just outcomes. Remember: every step, even rejection, builds skill and resilience.
The goal isn’t just a job—it’s the confidence to keep showing up.
To help your young adult gain and sustain employment, check out working with Blake through his one-on-one coaching program.
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