MAYNARD, MA, January 28, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Jess Jarmo has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As with all Marquis honorees, individuals are selected based on current reference value, considering factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in their field.

How did the kid who barely graduated high school end up mentoring professionals across the country? From IEP to CEO, this is the story of one woman who built the system she needed for herself.

Mrs. Jarmo is the CEO and founder of Jess Jarmo Neurodivergent Career Coaching, established in 2022. A nationally recognized leader in neurodivergent career development, she oversees coaching operations, curriculum design, business development initiatives, and a growing team of eight professionals who support neurodivergent adults across the United States. Known for her structured systems, visual tools, and executive-function-focused methodologies, she has become a respected voice in inclusive workforce practices and equitable hiring.

Her success, however, is made only more remarkable when you know where she began.
Jess's story starts in the classroom, sitting through IEP meetings, sitting across from adults discussing her future as if she weren't in the room, being told she was everything short of enough. It was easier to play the role they expected, to be the bad kid, than to be the smart one who kept falling short. She didn't feel intelligent; she felt like she was dodging failure.

Barely graduating with a 1.7 GPA, she was accepted into just one college, AIC, where she hoped to become a nurse. But she failed anatomy and chemistry, the very courses meant to launch her dream. After a shooting at her school, she found herself spiraling, partying to drown out the fear that maybe she wasn't cut out for success.

When she transferred to Mount Ida College, she wasn't chasing a dream, but rather, safety. She switched her major to Early Childhood Development with a minor in Business, and for the first time, she began to find her footing. She graduated from Mount Ida with a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Development and Education with a minor in Business.

After graduation, she accepted a job as an infant teacher, earning $13 per hour. She loved the work, but she wanted more stability, more opportunity. Against every negative internal voice, she went back to school. She walked into Fitchburg State University with a bachelor's degree and walked out with an MBA in Human Resource Management and a perfect 4.0 GPA.

Shortly after graduation, Jess joined The TJX Companies. Offered an HR generalist role but steeped in imposter syndrome, she requested the assistant position instead. It was there that she discovered her passion for recruiting, a spark that would shape her entire career.

From there, Jess gained experience in multiple recruiting and management roles, including positions at JC Cleaning, Nanny Match Me (where she served as CEO from 2015 to 2016), Recruiter at Renewal by Andersen, and as a staffing manager and recruiter at Supplemental Health Care from 2016 to 2017. While she excelled technically, the fast pace and lack of structured support at Supplemental Health Care proved challenging for someone with ADHD and dyslexia, ultimately leading to her dismissal. This experience forced her to confront long-held doubts and the limitations imposed by systems that had not accommodated her needs.

But the truth was this: she was not the problem. The system was.

In 2017, Jess joined Hub Recruiting as a senior talent acquisition consultant, project manager, and career coach. She loved the work, but once again, her executive functioning challenges made daily tasks feel overwhelming. Eventually she was called into her COO's office, fully prepared to be fired for a second time. Through a fog she heard, "I am going to have to let you go." She spoke before fear could silence her.

"I have dyslexia."

Those three words changed everything. Her COO did something few leaders ever do. Instead of terminating her, he chose to mentor her. He showed her how to work with her brain instead of against it. She was hired as a Talent Acquisition Consultant and grew into a senior role. For the first time in her life, she felt capable because someone finally believed in her.

Within a year, she was thriving, though she could hardly believe it, she eventually grew to earning six figures. She was working directly with hiring managers and seeing up close what companies actually look for in candidates. Jess discovered that the hiring wasn't about checking boxes; it was about connection. Managers wanted to feel a spark of understanding with the person across the table. That insight revealed why so many neurodivergent professionals struggle in traditional interviews.

That realization planted the first seed of the company she would one day build.

In 2022, drawing on her lived experience, professional achievements, and hard-earned insights, she founded Jess Jarmo Neurodivergent Career Coaching. Her firm supports neurodivergent adults in navigating the job market, building executive functioning systems, articulating their strengths, advocating for their needs, securing meaningful employment, and thriving in workplaces not originally designed for them. She has coached clients nationwide and established herself as a trusted voice on inclusive hiring, equitable workplace practices, and neurodivergent empowerment.

Jess also organizes and leads speaking engagements with high schools, universities and communities. She hosts national webinars on job search strategies and career planning for neurodivergent professionals and is developing publishable materials that break down complex tasks into manageable steps to address task paralysis. She is a certified HR Generalist, an AIRS Certified Diversity and Inclusion Recruiter (an ADP Company), and a member of the Association of People Supporting People First (APSE).

Her advocacy extends beyond her business. She provides pro bono career coaching, organizes holiday giving initiatives, and speaks widely about inclusive workplace design. Outside of her professional work, she enjoys weightlifting, yoga, improving on skiing skills, spending time with animals, her husband and cheering on her three neurodivergent children at their activities.

Today Jess is not only a coach and a CEO. She is a mother raising three neurodivergent children inside the same systems that once failed her. She sits in the same IEP meetings she once dreaded, fills out the same overwhelming paperwork, and sees the same shame and confusion flicker across the faces of children who deserve better. She is determined to change that future. Not just for her own kids, but for all of them.

Looking ahead, Jess plans to expand her curriculum, grow her coaching team, deepen her partnerships with colleges and employers, and develop more tools that help managers support neurodivergent employees with clarity and compassion. Her long-term vision is to influence organizational systems on a national scale, creating workplaces where neurodivergent professionals can not only succeed, but thrive.

Throughout every chapter of her journey, Jess credits her husband as her unwavering source of belief and stability. His encouragement made each risk possible and each milestone achievable. With that support, she remains committed to lifting others as she climbs, so every child sitting in an IEP meeting can one day see themselves as a leader who changes the world.

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