Celebrate 50 episodes of Culture by Neurodesign with award-winning leadership consultant Dr. Lisa Colledge, named Leadership Consultant of the Year 2025. Discover five innovations for building high-performing teams: neurodivergence inclusion, culture over compliance, Neuro-Inspired Teams™, the Future-Ready Pathway™, and the FIT Framework. Learn how neuro-inclusive leadership boosts performance, resilience, and innovation.

UX specialist Nick Cawthon shares how his “fast brain” finds creativity in flow states, why burning mental bridges fuels innovation, and how working with structured thinkers turns ideas into impact. This conversation explores the power of neurodiverse teams, combining rapid idea generation with precision and detail, to build adaptability, resilience, and high performance in design, AI, and beyond.

What does real autism inclusion at work actually look like? Will Savell spotlights two East Tennessee restaurants quietly leading the way. Without using buzzwords or formal programs, they model neuro-inclusive workplaces through clarity, consistency, and strengths-based design. From calm kitchens to flexible roles and emotionally safe leadership, these businesses show how everyday decisions can create lasting impact for employees, customers, and communities.

Discover why neuro-inclusive design isn’t just good ethics, it’s smart business. By enabling every neurostyle to thrive, teams unlock innovation, adaptability, and wellbeing. If you want to build high-performing teams where inclusion drives results, this is the insight you need.

Discover how neurodivergent talent like autistic thinkers drives innovation, cognitive diversity, and competitive advantage. Dr Lisa Colledge and psychologist Robert Annis explore neuro-inclusion, leadership strategy, and how diverse brains fuel growth, resilience, and long-term business success.

Most brainstorms are designed for extroverts and fast talkers, excluding introverts, autistic, and ADHD thinkers. Dr Lisa Colledge shares a neuro-inclusive brainstorm strategy to unlock every team member’s ideas before, during, and after the session to fuel innovation and diverse thinking.

Discover how neuroinclusive team design can resolve friction and burnout without relying on diagnosis or labels. When ADHD traits clash with team expectations, the problem is not personality but a lack of shared norms. This blog explores how the FIT Framework—Fair, Intentional, Team-minded—helps teams align communication, manage different neurostyles, and create a high performing inclusive team culture for everyone.

What if leadership and parenting weren’t separate skills—but reflections of the same mindset? In this episode of Culture by Neurodesign, coach Sharon Lim shares how leadership tools like clarity, flexibility, and trust helped her raise three sons and lead high-performing, neuro-inclusive teams. Learn why adaptive leadership, emotional intelligence, and individualised support are essential for building psychological safety, improving team performance, and supporting cognitive diversity at work and at home.

Discover how neurodivergent leadership is reshaping tech culture. In this powerful episode of Culture by Neurodesign, Lee September—Software Engineering Manager and Neurodivergence BRG Lead at Bol.com—shares how embracing his high sensitivity and autistic traits transformed his leadership style. From building psychological safety to preventing BRG burnout, this conversation explores the power of emotional intelligence, authenticity, and neuro-inclusive leadership in engineering. Essential listening for new team leads, BRG/ERG leaders, and inclusive workplace champions looking to turn neurodiversity into a strategic performance edge.

Inclusive design rooted in clarity, predictability, and psychological safety unlocks hidden potential in neurodivergent teams. Drawing from a powerful classroom example, this post explores how high expectations, structured support, and sensory-aware environments lead to engagement, trust, and performance.