Future-proof your organization and thrive in the face of change
Welcome.
Whether you’ve reached this page via my LinkedIn profile or through joining my one-to-one leadership program, you’re already on the right track. Prioritizing how your team responds to change is one of the most strategic decisions you can make. This presentation is a powerful first step.
I opened the Neuroverse International Virtual Summit 2024 by sharing a bold idea: that cognitive inclusion isn’t just a people initiative. It’s the key to sustainable high-performance for your organization, and to universal inclusion for the future.
In this recorded presentation, I reframe inclusion as a strategic lever for navigating complexity, constraint and change. Drawing on research, real-world team dynamics, and evolutionary insights, I show how your team or organization can build the capability to turn change from a threat into a competitive advantage: by connecting the power of the diverse neurostyles of your team members.
Whether you’re leading organizational transformation, building or resetting teams, or responding to disruption, this presentation, with its beautifully designed companion pdf, is your invitation to think differently.
Key takeaways
Upskill to embrace change: from AI disruption and COVID lockdowns to internal pivots, change is constant. Our individual instincts have evolved to resist the unfamiliar as a threat, but as a connected group we’re wired to adapt. The key is enabling your teams to rise above their threat response and operate in that adaptive mode, turning the different neurostyles in your working culture from a headache into your biggest strategic asset.
Cognitive diversity drives resilience: creativity and the ability to convert original ideas into value require complementary neurostyles. Left unchecked, these styles may clash: the cognitive style that naturally generates original ideas differs from those that evaluate or execute them. The extreme neurostyles associated with neurodivergence - such as the original thinking of dyslexia, the rational clarity of autism, and the adaptive drive of ADHD - highlight why connected teams of diverse minds are stronger and more adaptable.
Cognitive inclusion unlocks potential: cognitive diversity is essential in the change-driven environment you're operating in today, but it’s not enough on its own. It must be activated through a culture where people with different neurostyles are recognized, valued, and enabled to collaborate. In the right environment, even disengaged or underperforming team members can re-engage, and your team’s collective genius will thrive.
Cultural change must be strategic: high-performing teams don’t often emerge by accident. Team culture forms with or without your input, but leaders can choose to shape it. By applying my Neuro-Inspired Teams™ approach based on my 7-step Future-Ready Team Pathway™, you can design cognitively inclusive cultures grounded in the best practices of neurodivergence inclusion. Designing for the neurodivergent extremes helps everyone. Trust, wellbeing, and performance stop competing, and start reinforcing each other.
This benefits everyone: everyone has a cognitive preference. That's why a culture built for neurodivergence supports all employees, boosting engagement, retention, mental wellbeing, productivity and innovation. This is how you can design your team or organization to outpace, outperform, and outlast your competition.
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