The Neuro-Affirming Leader: a practical guide for managers, HR & EDI teams
Someone in your team is neurodivergent. Maybe they've told you. Maybe they never will. This guide helps you lead in a way that works for them, and for everyone.
A 47-page practical guide written by a certified ADHD coach and senior nurse leader with over 25 years' experience in healthcare, clinical practice and leadership. Warm, practical and UK-focused, with real-life stories on almost every page.
Inside: 11 sections
- What neuro-affirming leadership means, myths and reality, and a quick guide to different brains
- The first conversation: what to say, and what to avoid
- To tell or not to tell: support without a label, and when someone is waiting for an assessment
- Strengths-based adjustments, and the law in plain English
- Access to Work, and how to support an application
- Communication, meetings, feedback, delegation and fair performance management, using Head • Heart • Hands
- Recognising and responding to overwhelm and burnout, and the protective supports that prevent it
- Women, neurodivergence and menopause, plus parents and carers of neurodivergent children
- Team culture, psychological safety, and when colleagues clash
- Nine ready-to-use templates
- For HR & EDI teams: policy and process prompts
The nine templates: Working Well Plan, review conversation, team agreement, conversation planner, How I work best, before a performance conversation, adjustments log, manager's checklist and a 30-day action plan.
Choose your licence
- Individual (£35): the full guide as an accessible PDF, for your own use.
- Organisation licence (£195): share the guide with managers across your organisation, plus all nine templates as editable Word files to add your logo and use in your own processes.
Not sure yet? Get the free taster, Someone has just told you they're neurodivergent. What now?, in the shop.
General information for UK workplaces (England, Scotland and Wales). Not legal, HR or medical advice. Digital download, no refunds once downloaded.
