• Moving beyond awareness towards meaningful workplace inclusion
• Understanding autism and ADHD through a strengths-based, neuroaffirming lens
• Identifying the workplace barriers that can prevent neurodivergent people from thriving
• Creating cultures where neurodivergent employees can contribute, progress and succeed

• Understanding how autistic and ADHD traits can intersect at work
• Executive functioning, attention, regulation and energy management
• The impact of sensory overload, masking and burnout
• Recognising strengths as well as barriers
• What managers and colleagues can do to create more effective working relationships
  
  
  
  
  

• Removing barriers across recruitment, onboarding, performance management and progression
• Rethinking traditional recruitment processes and selection methods
• Creating accessible job descriptions, interviews and assessment processes
• Moving from individual adjustments towards inclusion by design
• Building sustainable approaches that improve recruitment and retention of neurodivergent talent

• Understanding the pathway to an autism and/or ADHD diagnosis and why many people reach adulthood without being identified
• Exploring why autistic and ADHD people may seek diagnosis later in life
• What a diagnosis can mean for an individual
• Do you need a diagnosis to ask for workplace support, and what can employers do when someone is exploring or awaiting assessment?

• Understanding what sits behind workplace distress, absence and disengagement
• Recognising burnout and preventing avoidable escalation
• Creating conditions that support regulation, wellbeing and sustainable performance
• Effective reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010
• Moving from reactive support to proactive workplace inclusion

• What good workplace support really looks like from lived experience
• Creating meaningful opportunities for neurodivergent employees to influence workplace policy and practice
• Challenging assumptions around capability, communication and professionalism
• Balancing individual choice with organisational responsibility
• Creating employee voice, belonging and psychological safety

Speakers:

• Azi Court, AuDHD and LGBTQ+ Activist, Ausome Minds
• Charlie Hart, Ausome Charlie

• Understanding masking and camouflaging in the workplace
• Recognising overlooked presentations, including women and high-achieving professionals
• The impact of masking on wellbeing, confidence, performance and career progression
• Creating safer routes to support without requiring disclosure

• Shifting focus to flexibility, autonomy and individual needs
• The intersection of neurodiversity and LGBTQ+ identity at work
• Why doing the right thing can drive business value
• What the next generation wants from employers