Thriving as a Neurodivergent Employee
Martha Barnard Rae
In this session, Martha shares practical advice for neurodivergent employees, especially those with ADHD. She stresses the value of self-awareness understanding how your brain works and identifying your strengths and needs.
This helps with advocating for yourself and focusing on tasks that bring enjoyment or flow. Martha explains masking hiding neurodivergent traits to fit in and how it can lead to burnout. She shares her own experience and highlights the importance of being honest about your struggles.
To work more effectively, Martha suggests using task systems, asking for help, taking breaks, and designing your day around interests instead of willpower.
During the expert session, Martha engages the audience through a Q&A session, live demonstrations of coping strategies, and interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app. She shares practical tips for neurodivergent individuals to manage their workload, communicate effectively, and advocate for themselves.
Gain insights into neurodivergent conditions such as ADHD and autism by considering a diagnosis if suspected. Understanding your abilities and needs can lead to effective management and accommodations in the workplace.
Identify manageable tasks and avoid tackling disliked tasks on demanding days to help alleviate feelings of overwhelm. Consider seeking support or accommodation to maintain focus and productivity.
Be open to recognizing neurodivergent behaviors in potential candidates during the hiring process, and challenge biases when assessing their performance. Communicate effectively with your employer about accommodations and set boundaries to avoid burnout and promote self-compassion.
In this expert session, Martha shares valuable insights into thriving as an employee, specifically focusing on the unique challenges faced by individuals with neurodivergent conditions such as ADHD. She begins by emphasizing the importance of self-awareness and understanding one's own brain function.
Martha encourages creating lists of strengths and needs, advocating for oneself based on this self-understanding, and identifying tasks that bring enjoyment or 'flow.'
Moreover, Martha discusses the concept of neurodivergent masking, which involves hiding certain aspects of oneself to fit in with neurotypical expectations. She shares a personal story about experiencing burnout and the importance of being honest about one's struggles.
To help neurodivergent individuals be more effective at work, Martha recommends having a reliable system for organizing tasks, asking for help when needed, taking breaks or building in buffers between tasks, designing your day around your interests rather than willpower, and experimenting with different methods to find what works best for you. Martha emphasizes the importance of setting boundaries and communicating effectively with others about your needs.
It is interactive, and the block above 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.
In this session, Martha shares practical advice for neurodivergent employees, especially those with ADHD. She stresses the value of self-awareness understanding how your brain works and identifying your strengths and needs. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Martha, 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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