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Is Unconscious Bias Stopping You from Hiring a Neurodiverse Team?
How do you overcome unconscious bias when interviewing to hire a neurodiverse team? Difficulty recruiting and hiring neurodiverse talent is a common scenario. It happens because hiring practices...
How to Foster Authenticity and Trust in Neurodiverse Teams
The importance of team trust in neurodiversity There are many different ways that human brains work. Anyone who has ever worked with another human knows that great things can evolve when we...
Leading Effective Team Meetings in the Neurodiverse Workplace
How to Communicate to Support Neurodiversity in the Workplace Team meetings can be exhausting for employees in the neurodiverse workplace. Employees with ADHD or dyslexia may feel that they’re...
3 Changes You Can Make to Foster an Inclusive Work Environment While Managing Neurodiverse Employees
Imagine putting a lot of effort into hiring a more diverse staff only to have all of your diverse employees quit within a year. This is something a lot of companies deal with when they try to add...
3 Ways a Neurodiverse Friendly Environment Can Give You a Competitive Edge When Managing Neurodiverse People
Innovation comes from people who think and experience the world differently. This is true whether we are talking about volunteer organizations, the government, or large corporations....
A Dozen Top Strategies to Manage Neurodiverse Employees
For neurodiverse employees, the modern workplace can be a tough place to excel. Some struggle with workplace interaction and socialization. Workers with ADHD can have trouble prioritizing...
A Dozen Tips for Effective Presentations when Managing Neurodiverse Employees
So often, managers call a meeting, share information, then end the session expecting employees to understand, assimilate, and implement the new information into their work endeavors. When this...
How We View Neurodiversity Needs to Evolve
Historically, people have viewed neurodivergence from a deficit model point of view. Unfortunately, I’d say that this is the prevailing view. The world is still very much neurotypical-centric....
The Best Tech Tools to Accelerate Learning
32+ apps to improve teaching and accelerate learning for school and career Technology has revolutionized the way we approach learning. When I think back to my schooling and how I struggled...
Apprenticeship as an Alternative Hiring Strategy for a Neurodiverse Workforce
There’s one approach to neurodiverse hiring that has not received much notice in the United States: apprenticeships. Data from the United Kingdom (UK)(HM Government, 2020), where renewed interest...
Stereotypes in Neurodivergent Hiring: When Exceptional is the Expectation
For all the acceptance that neurodivergence has been receiving, including workplace initiatives to recruit and train neurodivergent talent, we still have a long way to go to attain equity and...
Five Brain Hacks to Learn Faster
Much of my work is helping professionals see that they’re not “bad at learning”; they’re simply trying to learn in a way that doesn’t work for their brains. While my work naturally helps many...