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Neurodiversity Awareness Training courses for; staff awareness, managers and hr professionals, ERGs and brand new public courses to kickstart understanding.

Build understanding. Foster psychological safety. Make real inclusion happen.

At Think Neurodiversity, our Neurodiversity Training is built for real-world teams — blending lived experience, clinical insight, and evidence-based strategies. We've delivered training to thousands of people across the private and public sectors with consistent results and impact.

 

This isn’t just about awareness. We equip your people to understand what they need to be positive advocates, allies and to support and collaborate with their neurodivergent colleagues with confidence.

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We offer expert-led neurodiversity awareness training for everyone in your organisation  and tailor content to the delegates specific needs after a thorough consultation.

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It has to be a Top down approach to work.
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In our experience for neurodiversity awareness training to work and for a real lasting cultural change the process has to start with speaking to your Executive team, Senior Leadership team and key decision makers.

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Once we've helped them understand the very tangible business benefits, cost savings and reasons why investing in our training is good business sense can we be sure that the messages we deliver to the organisation will be championed by those with influence.

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We also believe in training HR and People teams before anyone else as these key team members need very different and specific education to enable them to support managers and other colleagues once they've been trained as well.

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🧭 Delivery Options

  • Online (live)

  • Online (pre-recorded)

  • Hybrid (onsite + online)

  • In person

  • LMS ready content​

  • Available worldwide 

👥 Who It’s For

  • SLT and Exec teams

  • Managers

  • HR and People teams

  • Whole staff awareness

  • ​ERGs and Staff networks ​

⏱️ Training durations

  • 30 - 45 minute Lunch & Learns

  • 1 Hour awareness sessions

  • Half day

  • Full day

  • Multi day for larger cohorts

📚 Learning Outcomes

  • Understand what neurodiversity means

  • Create inclusion, allyship and advocacy

  • Foster psychological safety

  • Learn tools to support colleagues 

  • Understand what support looks like and how to embed it

1. Neurodiversity awareness training for SLT, Exec teams, HR, People teams and Managers 

Exec teams and SLT sessions:

1 hour online "Why neurodiversity, why now" sessions.

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Exploring the information that matters including:

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  • Business costs (sickness, attrition and employment tribunals) 

  • Business benefits of investing in attracting, supporting, developing and retaining neurodivergent people.

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Neurodiversity Awareness Training for HR and People Teams :

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Full day training that enables the people supporting everyone else what they need to know.​​​​​​​​​​​​​

These sessions cover in detail:

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  • Recruitment

  • Interviews

  • Training/Development 

  • Sickness rates, causes and links to neurodivergence 

  • Feelings of neurodivergent people at every stage of their work life​​

  • The Equalities Acts and legal responsibilities

  • Performance management

  • Reasonable Adjustments

  • Employment Tribunals​

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Designed to provide resources, tools and practical, proven strategies to embed neuroinclusion in your organisation immediately.

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Including the Which Means What framework for communicating clearly with colleagues

Neurodiversity Awareness training for managers:

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Full day training that equips managers at all levels with the skills and confidence to support, develop and enable their neurodivergent colleagues to thrive in their teams and in their roles.​​​​​​​​​​​​​

These sessions cover in detail:

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  • A foundational knowledge of the information from the HR sessions plus tools to be neuroinclusive managers:

  • Understanding of what being neurodivergent at work is like

  • Why some people do and don't want to share diagnosis

  • The key challenges faced by neurodivergent people and how they present in the workplace

  • Tools to have supportive conversations about people, not conditions

  • Reasonable adjustments, what they are, who can ask for them and how to have meaningful discussions to start supporting people

  • When to talk to HR and who else may be involved

  • Performance management or overwhelm? How to tell the difference and what to do

  • How to develop abilities, talent and strengths by supporting the challenges

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These sessions provide resources, tools and practical, proven strategies used successfully in other organisations to create effective teams.

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Including the Which Means What framework for having conversations to support your team members 

2. Neurodiversity awareness for raising staff awareness.

This is the ideal session to introduce your committment to neuroinclusion to your entire workforce. Typically delivered as Lunch and Learn or 90 minute sessions.

Aims and Objectives 

  • Explain what Neurodiversity is (and isn't)

  • Bust myths, misconceptions and stigma

  • Explain words, terms and the right things to say

  • Explore social perceptions of the topic

  • Understand what conditions can be classes as neurodivergent

  • Recognise common challenges neurodivergent colleagues may face

  • See the opportunities for neurodivergent colleagues when they are properly supported and understood

  • Create better understanding, acceptance and inclusion

  • Focus on how Neurodivergent conditions show up not what they are

  • Encourage people to be positive allies and advocates for others

3. Neurodiversity awareness ERGs and Staff Networks.

Aims and Objectives 

  • ​​Explores what Allyship and Advocacy are and how they differ.

  • Encourages open conversations sharing lived experience of neurodivergent staff, parents of neurodivergent children and those with neurodivergent partners .

  • Gives practical tools from 15 years mentoring neurodivergent people on having psychologically safe conversations.

  • Explains the Equalities Act and discusses disclosure in the workplace.

  • Offers insight into reasonable adjustments and how to support colleagues in asking for them.​

  • Including the Which Means What framework for having conversations with neurodivergent staff.

5. Neurodiversity in the workplace, one day public courses.

Aims and Objectives 

We understand that not all organisations are ready to commit to full training straight away.

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These full day courses held once a month are an opportunity for key staff to attend training that will help them create change, develop neuroinclusive practises and  raise awareness of this topic.

​​Limited to 15 places.

£350 per delegate

Conducted via Zoom.

Full training materials provided.​​

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  • ​​Explain what Neurodiversity is (and isn't)

  • Bust myths, misconceptions and stigma

  • Explain words, terms and the right things to say

  • Explore social perceptions of the topic

  • Understand what conditions can be classes as neurodivergent.

  • Recognise common challenges neurodivergent colleagues may face.

  • See the opportunities for neurodivergent colleagues when they are properly supported and understood.

  • Create better understanding, acceptance and inclusion

  • Focus on how Neurodivergent conditions show up not what they are.​

  • Designed to provide resources, tools and practical, proven strategies to embed neuroinclusion in your organisation immediately.​

  • Including the Which Means What framework for having conversations with neurodivergent staff.

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