Program 1

Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Neurodiversity in Your Workplace

In this engaging and interactive presentation, Susan Fitzell equips teams with the tools to effectively champion neurodiversity, equity, and inclusion, unlocking greater innovation, productivity, and creativity in the workplace. Through real-world examples and actionable strategies, she helps organizations harness the strengths of neurodivergent talent to create a more dynamic and inclusive environment.

This program is fully customized to your organization’s needs. Susan conducts interviews with key decision-makers, team members, and stakeholders to ensure a tailored approach.

When neurodiversity initiatives are implemented correctly, they drive meaningful change and deliver significant benefits. However, when done poorly, they can backfire, creating resistance and stalling progress. Don’t leave it to chance—get it right the first time and build a workplace where neurodivergent individuals and their teams thrive.

Format:

45-60 minute program / workshop

This program is perfect for:​

• Senior management
• Teams struggling with cognitive diversity and collaboration
• Managers of under-performing teams
• Diversity Equity Inclusion professional interested in neurodiversity in the workplace

The audience will leave with:

• an understanding of what neurodiversity is and why it benefits their team
• tools and strategies for working with neurodivergent employees to increase innovation, problem solving, and efficiency
• how workplace accommodations for neurodivergent employees benefit everyone

Program 3

The Future of Work: Boost Performance Through Brain-Friendly Workplaces

Unlock the full potential of your workforce with Susan Fitzell’s dynamic keynote, The Future of Work: Boost Performance Through Brain-Friendly Workplaces. This engaging session explores how leveraging divergent thinking and cognitive strengths within your team leads to greater innovation, efficiency, and profitability.

Susan provides practical strategies to help organizations tap into the diverse thinking styles of their employees, fostering an inclusive culture that drives performance and engagement. Whether in-person or virtual, this keynote delivers actionable insights that empower leaders to create a workplace where every brain thrives—leading to a stronger bottom line and a more competitive edge.

Format:

Workshop, Full day training, Multi-day (Virtual) training delivered in one-hour sessions

In this Brain Power program, you will learn how to communicate critical information effectively and efficiently as well as coach your employees to:

• Optimize their ability to process and recall critical information presented at meetings, during webinars, and other training sessions.
• Use color-coding, categorization, association, and pairing to remember new rules, procedures, and regulations.
• Maximize brainstorming sessions by effectively using meta-cognitive maps and strategies to quickly visualize information and promote big picture thinking and innovation without losing the details.
• Use a variety of technology tools during meetings and trainings that enhance their ability to capture critical information as well as synthesize it in a format that is memorable, research-based, and effective.
• Identify unconscious obstacles that are holding them back and implement solutions to overcome those obstacles.
• Understand the difference between listening and learning.
• Move information from short-term memory to working memory to long-term memory, and implementation, using strategies that accelerate the learning process and allow implementation that meets deadlines.
• Ask critical questions in a timely manner.
• Understand how anxiety and negative thinking reduces performance and what to do to overcome thought processes that decrease the ability to perform at maximum capacity.
• Use scripts to reframe brain messages to be positive, creative, and success oriented.
• Effective leadership, plus acceleration of the brain power in your business, equals more effective employees.