Participants will learn techniques to lead and accommodate neurodivergent staff in the workplace. This is a 3 hr workshop for leaders.
About this Event

Workshop Description:

Intro to Neurodiverse Leadership 101 is a 3 hour facilitated workshop for managers and people leaders.

In this workshop, participants will learn techniques to lead and accommodate neurodivergent staff in the workplace.

The facilitators, Chantoy and Marisa, are neurodivergent intersectional professionals who co-created this workshop with the intention of making workplaces safer and more accessible for people like them.

The workshop will answer:

What is neurodiversity?
What can disclosing a disability and accommodations look like?
What management techniques can you implement for all staff that have neurodivergent access needs?
How can you remove barriers that are preventing neurodivergent staff from performing at their best?

In this workshop, we will:

Complete at least 3 workplace scenarios
Leverage breakout rooms
Send a post-facilitation list of clear management techniques leaders can implement
Readily meet access needs as requested

Facilitators:

Chantoy Williams (she/her)
Chantoy is a neurodivergent POC who uses her combined lived experience and professional expertise to remove barriers for folks like her. She have dedicated her career to break down stigmatization and negative biases in work cultures.

Chantoy is an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) professional for a large, international NGO. She uses her neurodiversity and ability to occupy neurotypical spaces to bring unique insights and problem-solving skills to teams and organizations that want to prioritize inclusion and accessibility.

Marisa Tran (they/them)

Marisa is an autistic genderqueer person that is both part of the SouthEast Asian diaspora and a white settler. They bring a multitude of lived experience as a QTPOC, disabled person. They hold many nuances as a person on the cusp of many privileges and with passing abilities in most of the communities they identify with.

Marisa is a business management coach, operations and HR consultant and an employee advocate. They have 15 years of experience in management, operations and HR and their specialty is workplace harm reduction, EDI and improving accessibility.