According to the 2026 City & Guilds Foundation Neurodiversity Index, the share of managers receiving neurodiversity-aware training rose from 35% to 39% between 2025 and 2026.

Over the same period, employee-rated manager capability dropped from 55% to 52%. More organisations are investing in training, and fewer employees feel that their managers are actually equipped to support them.

If you've ever left a meeting exhausted in a way you couldn't quite explain — this one is for you.
I wrote about what neurodivergent professionals are quietly carrying in environments that were never designed with their brains in mind. And what it means that those environments are getting harder to navigate, not easier.
There is hope for a better way of working!

UC Berkeley watched a 200-person company adopt AI voluntarily. People weren't doing less. They were doing more — in more time.

AI didn't reduce cognitive load. It redistributed it. And quietly raised the ceiling on what "enough" looks like.

Friction-free tools need friction-full boundaries. If your team adopted AI without redesigning how work is paced and bounded, you haven't optimised your operations. You've just planted faster.

Creating a culture that is friendly for neurodivergent employees just might be your company’s secret super power.

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Creating a culture that is friendly for neurodivergent employees just might be your company’s secret super power.

image credit: Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash

Neurodivergent individuals already process the world differently at the nervous system level. When executive function also works differently, everyday tasks require significantly more mental energy.

All you need to know about your Nervous System

Neurodivergent nervous systems process sensory information differently.

Neurodivergent nervous systems process sensory information differently.