About Us
We help organizations sustain performance by correcting rhythm, clarifying roles, and eliminating UGLY wins—so results don’t come at the cost of their best people.
Kendall Autism Support & Consulting
Kendall Autism Support & Consulting (KASC) is a leadership and organizational development firm that helps organizations strengthen performance by addressing what most systems overlook: behavior, rhythm, and capacity.
Founded by Tanyika Mayhew Butler—keynote speaker, organizational rhythm strategist, and retired educator—KASC works with corporations, school districts, and leadership teams that are still meeting goals, but sensing strain beneath the surface.
With 27 years inside complex education systems, Tanyika learned how results are often sustained not by alignment, but by silent compensation—high-capacity leaders absorbing unclear roles, emotional overload, and unchecked pace to keep performance intact. Over time, she began to notice patterns others dismissed as “just part of the job.”
Those patterns became frameworks.
Drawing from decades of leadership experience and real-world observation, Tanyika developed practical tools—including Basketball in the Boardroom™ that addresses UGLY Wins. She helps organizations identify hidden performance costs before they show up as burnout, turnover, or loss of institutional knowledge.
KASC partners with organizations to:
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restore leadership rhythm without restructuring
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clarify roles so strong people don’t become the system
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support neurodiverse and high-performing employees without lowering standards
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reduce invisible strain while outcomes still matter
This work isn’t about motivation or culture slogans.
It’s about recalibrating how success is carried—so excellence becomes sustainable, not expensive.
At Kendall Autism Support & Consulting (KASC), we help organizations and leaders sustain performance by improving how they understand behavior, capacity, and leadership under pressure.
Our work blends autism-informed insight with executive-level strategy—turning what others overlook into systems that restore rhythm, clarify roles, and reduce the hidden costs of success.
Corporate Training & Leadership Development
We help teams identify and correct the invisible strain that erodes performance:
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role overextension
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unclear ownership
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emotional overload
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leadership compensation masked as dedication
The result: strong outcomes without burning out your best people.
Private Leadership Strategy (1:1)
A discreet, systems-based engagement for high-capacity women leaders managing pressure, visibility, and sustained responsibility. We help leaders protect their energy, decision-making, and excellence—without collapse.
Autism & Caregiver Support
Our autism work grounds everything we do. Years of supporting families navigating regulation, behavior, and capacity shaped the frameworks we now apply in organizations where performance still matters.
What began as survival became systems.
What others missed, we built frameworks around.
Why We’re Different
We don’t lead with information.
We lead with insight.
Every framework we deliver is built through strategic storytelling—the kind that reveals performance gaps, exposes operational chokeholds, and changes how leaders understand behavior, capacity, and accountability.
Stories aren’t used to inspire for a moment.
They are used to surface what data often misses.
Through story, leaders can see:
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where roles have drifted
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how rhythm has gone unchecked
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why strong performers are compensating silently
That clarity becomes action.
Our storytelling translates into:
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systems teams can implement
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tools leaders can use immediately
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frameworks organizations can scale
Story is how we diagnose.
Systems are what remain.
Sustainable performance is the outcome.
This is strategy delivered through story—and that’s why it holds.
Meet our Founder, Tanyika Mayhew Butler
Meet the Founder: Tanyika Mayhew Butler
Tanyika Mayhew Butler didn’t just navigate leadership chokeholds—she built frameworks from them.
Her work didn’t begin on a stage or in a strategy session.
It began inside systems under pressure: hospitals, school districts, IEP meetings, leadership boardrooms, and the quiet spaces where high-performing women hold everything together while the system quietly relies on them to do so.
Tanyika brings 27 years of experience inside complex education systems—as a teacher, school counselor, and trusted advisor to leadership teams—paired with lived expertise navigating autism, disability, and chronic illness within institutions that were not designed for that complexity.
When her daughter Kendall was diagnosed with autism at 18 months—and later with an intellectual disability, ADHD, and emotional-behavioral challenges—Tanyika wasn’t handed best practices.
She was handed system gaps:
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unclear ownership
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inconsistent responses
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resistance to change
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misalignment between policy and reality
She didn’t break under that pressure.
She began building systems.
Five schools in five years.
Behavior units. Suspensions. Attorney meetings.
Leadership escalations. Crisis cycles.
All while navigating her own multiple sclerosis diagnosis and leading at the highest levels of her profession.
That intersection revealed a truth that now anchors her work:
People don’t burn out because they can’t perform.
They burn out because responsibility outpaces support.
From Lived Systems to Leadership Frameworks
Over decades inside schools and organizations, Tanyika became known for stabilizing teams, clarifying roles, and helping leaders sustain performance under pressure—especially when outcomes still mattered.
Her work evolved into three core frameworks used across corporate, education, and executive environments:
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Basketball in the Boardroom™ — restoring team rhythm, role clarity, and recovery before performance fractures. When the rhythm is not in alignment correcting pace that leads to UGLY wins and invisible costs
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Applause Pivots™ — supporting high-achieving women in making image-safe pivots while still delivering results
Her autism work—district trainings, neurodiversity-informed professional development, crisis and behavior supports, and family systems coaching—sharpened her ability to see what many leaders miss:
where systems quietly depend on compensation instead of design.
The Pivot That Clarified the Work
While leading, parenting, advocating, writing, and caregiving, Tanyika encountered another familiar pattern—functional exhaustion hidden behind excellence.
Stacked leadership roles.
Health crises.
Identity strain.
Achievement without sustainability.
She didn’t recover by stepping away from performance.
She recalibrated how it was carried.
That recalibration became the foundation of her executive and organizational work today.
How She Works Now
Tanyika partners with organizations and high-capacity women who are still performing—but know something is off.
Her work helps leaders and teams:
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identify and correct UGLY wins
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align responsibility with true capacity
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eliminate invisible drains before turnover or error
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pivot without damaging credibility or results
She is brought into rooms before collapse, while metrics still hold, to help leaders protect their people, their rhythm, and their institutional knowledge.
Because sustainable success is not about doing less.
It’s about designing systems that don’t require quiet sacrifice to keep winning.
Credentials + Contributions
- Graduate of Florida A&M University, Clark Atlanta University, and Valdosta State University
- Author of A Krusade for Kendall and multiple works on autism advocacy, systems, and resilience
- Creator of the Basketball in the Boardroom™ and Applause Pivots™ Frameworks
- Speaker and trainer for corporations, school districts, women’s leadership groups, and healthcare organizations
- Founder of Kendall Autism Support & Consulting (KASC), reshaping how schools and leaders approach neurodiversity, resilience, and capacity managementÂ
Tanyika has been married to her college sweetheart for 27 years and is the parent of two adult children, ages 24 and 25. She and her family live in the Atlanta suburbs, where her personal and professional worlds continue to intersect with purpose.
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