Become the manager your neurodivergent team members actually need
Right now, around 1 in 5 people in your team may be neurodivergent. That means they might process information differently, communicate differently, and experience your management style very differently from what you intend. Most managers are doing their best with almost no guidance on any of this. This session changes that.
In 45 focused minutes, you will get a clear, honest grounding in what neuroinclusive management actually looks like in practice. We will remove the deficit-framed thinking about "difficult" team members and discuss practical, human-centred approaches you can implement immediately.
This is not a session about diagnosing your team or becoming an overnight expert. It is about adjusting the conditions you create as a manager so that more of your people can do their best work, without having to constantly advocate for themselves to be heard.
What you will take away
1. A shift in how you read your team You will leave with a new lens for understanding behaviour at work. When someone goes quiet in meetings, misses a deadline, or seems disengaged, that is information about the environment, not a character flaw. You will learn to separate design problems from people problems, and know what to do about each.
2. Practical adjustments you can make this week Neuroinclusion does not require a policy overhaul or a big budget. It often means small, deliberate changes: how you structure instructions, how you run one-to-ones, how you offer flexibility without requiring your team members to justify it. You will leave with a shortlist of high-impact changes that cost nothing but attention.
3. The language and confidence to have better conversations Many managers want to support neurodivergent team members but do not know where to start, or worry about saying the wrong thing. You will leave knowing how to open those conversations in ways that centre your team member's experience, not your own discomfort.
A note on what this is not
This is not a session about spotting who is neurodivergent on your team. You do not need to know. Neuroinclusive management works by improving the conditions for everyone, so the people who need it most are not left having to ask.
Your host
Rebecca Leppard knows what it means to build something from scratch in an environment that was not designed with you in mind.
A neurodivergent mother of three, Rebecca made the leap from a senior role in five-star hospitality to the fast-moving world of tech and consulting in the UK. She went on to found Upgrading Women, a personal brand agency helping women across Europe and North America turn their expertise into income on their own terms.
Rebecca speaks regularly on stages and podcast shows about leadership, feminine energy, and what it really takes to thrive as an entrepreneur. She also builds AI tools designed to help neurodivergent people make the most of how their minds work.
She brings to this masterclass something most neuroinclusion training lacks: she is not speaking about neurodivergent people from the outside. She is one of us, and she has built a career helping others stop shrinking and start leading.