Key highlights: National Neurodiversity at Work Conference 2026
Neurodivergent Works provides its highlights from the eighth annual National Neurodiversity at Work Conference, which took place in London on 20 May
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How Kate Jenkinson is rewriting the HR neuroinclusion playbook
Kate Jenkinson PhD, FCIPD has spent her career as a research scientist, HR director, executive coach and business poet. She tells Neurodivergent Works why organisations keep losing neurodivergent leaders and why poetry is part of the answer
From Oatly's head of people to neurodiversity consultancy: 'We're always retrofitting rather than building differently'
Laura Wyatt spent a decade in people leadership, including six years building the people function at Oatly, before founding Qualia Collective. She tells Neurodivergent Works why HR has been thinking about neurodiversity through the wrong lens — and what it would mean to get it right
'Nobody told me I had ADHD. They told me I was justifying bad behaviour'
Amit Singh Kalley spent nearly a decade as a senior leader in education before his ADHD diagnosis changed everything
The workplace costs of ignoring dyscalculia
Dyscalculia affects roughly 6% of the UK population. Rob Jennings, co-founder of the Dyscalculia Network, explains what HR teams are missing, and what they can do about it
'It's free to take the steps that make the biggest difference': Neurodiversity UK
Building a neuroinclusive workplace doesn't require a big budget. James Robertson and Jack Norwood of Neurodiversity UK explain why the most effective steps are often free, and why the will to act matters more than the resources available
'The more it was rewarded, the more I had to mask': City investment manager on autism and late diagnosis
A City investment manager, established and well-regarded, is going through an autism assessment. They spoke to Neurodivergent Works about decades of masking, what the process is revealing and what they wish HR knew about it
