Neurodiversity in the workplace: Unlocking the potential of every mind
Zara Sloane
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Zara is an accredited coach and leadership & inclusion consultant with a background in strategic talent, organisational development, and commercial leadership. With over 20 years of experience, including senior roles in Financial Services, she now works with organisations across sectors to develop high-performing, inclusive cultures. Drawing from her personal journey as an adult diagnosed with ADHD and as a parent to a neurodivergent teenager, she combines a professional and lived experience that provide a unique perspective on neuro-inclusion, which she weaves into her work with leaders, helping them communicate with clarity, lead with empathy, and create workplaces where different minds can thrive. Her sessions are known for being engaging, insightful, and practical, offering actionable strategies that benefit all everyone. Zara is a passionate advocate for equity and opportunity. Her work champions underrepresented voices, bridges generational gaps, and supports leaders and organisations to do the hard but human work of change. Her approach is pragmatic, commercially aware, and always people-centred.
All sessions by Zara →In today’s diverse workforce, embracing neurodiversity isn't just a moral imperative, it's a strategic advantage. In every workplace, there are brilliant minds wired in different ways but not every workplace is designed to recognise or support them.
This session will introduce the concept of neurodiversity, challenge common myths, and offer practical strategies to create more inclusive, high-performing environments for everyone.
You’ll gain a clear understanding of what neurodiversity is (and isn’t) and explore the realities of conditions such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and more. We’ll examine how neurodivergent individuals often experience barriers that are rooted not in their abilities, but in systems designed that weren’t designed with them in mind.
Through real-world examples, myth-busting insights, and interactive reflection, you’ll discover how embracing neurodiversity can unlock innovation, creativity, and resilience in teams while improving employee performance, wellbeing, engagement, and psychological safety. Perfect for anyone who wants to build a stronger, more responsive workplace, without needing a diagnosis to make a difference.
During the expert session, Zara Sloane engages the audience through methods like live Q&A sessions using the Mentimeter app and interactive polls. These activities inspire reflection and encourage active participation from all attendees.
A grounded understanding of neurodiversity and neurodivergence and its impact on the workplace
Practical ways to recognise and remove barriers in communication, collaboration, and workplace design that benefit everyone
Insights into how supporting diverse cognitive styles can drive innovation and performance
Everyday actions to help to reduce the need for individual disclosures and shift culture, not just tick boxes
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
I would love to participate in more events with Zara Sloane. I have found her an incredible speaker with a great knowledge on the subject and clear, concise and emphatical delivery and approach. Thank you so much for inviting her and organise the session.
Very insightful session on such a sensitive topic. Zara absolutely masters the subject. Excellent session, many thanks!
Very good prepared! interesting topic thank you
Thank you and well done - great session too
Loved the calm tone Zara had. It was personable and reassuring, it was also inviting to be curios about the other people. Loved the resources shared in the chat by our colleagues, too.
Learnt the measures Very accurate content & perfect speaker: thank you
Speaker was amazing and showing a very deep understanding and experience in inclusion of neurodiverse persons. She showed also a great empathy to all kind of audience. She managed time and speech flow to keep focussed and attentive an autiste with ADHD.
I think this session has been a great way to kickstart people in the workplace becoming more educated and aware of neurodivergent people and hopefully have a positive impact on the stigma around it and encourage people to further teach themselves.
No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: In today’s diverse workforce, embracing neurodiversity isn't just a moral imperative, it's a strategic advantage. In every workplace, there are brilliant minds wired in different ways but not every workplace is designed to recognise or support them.
Zara Sloane is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.5 out of 5, across 48 responses, and rate Zara personally 4.7 out of 5.
It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Zara, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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