How can managers, colleagues, companies and entire sectors create workplaces and careers where neurodivergent people can thrive?
Dr Annalisa Contos is Principle of Atom Consulting in Australia. She's a highly experienced technical facilitator and award-winning risk manager in the water, environment and policy fields. She is also a passionate neurodiversity advocate.
In this episode she speaks to hosts Lila and Perminder about her own story of getting diagnosed later in life with ADHD and dyslexia and how she has adapted her career. She also talks about her experiences being a mother to two children (now young adults) with autism and what she wishes was in place in order for them to be able to gain work experience and build a career.
This is a very honest, touching and insightful episode including topics such as:
This is a must-listen for anyone wanting to build a neurodiversity-positive team, company or workplace. Equally it is of huge value to anyone who is neurodivergent themselves or, rightly, just wants to better understand neurodivergence.