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TraininG & Consulting

Gill helps leaders build more adaptable, innovative, and high-performing teams by expanding how they think about people, performance, and potential.

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Workshops, Webinars & Presentations

​Practical, engaging training that helps organizations move beyond awareness and build more inclusive, accessible, and effective workplaces.

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Our sessions combine real workplace scenarios, practical tools, and evidence informed approaches to help leaders, HR professionals, and teams challenge assumptions, remove barriers, and create conditions where more people can succeed.

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Inclusive Leadership & Team Practices

 

When Managers Get Stuck: Neuroinclusive Responses to Workplace Challenges

 

Audience: Managers, Team Leaders, HR Professionals

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Managers are often expected to navigate complex workplace challenges without the knowledge or tools to understand what's actually getting in the way. When employees struggle with performance, communication, deadlines, or expectations, traditional management approaches can unintentionally make things worse.

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This workshop helps managers move beyond assumptions and reactive problem solving to better understand employee behaviour, identify barriers, and respond with greater confidence. Through realistic workplace scenarios and practical exercises, participants learn how to balance accountability with care, adapt their management approaches, and create conditions that support both individual and team performance.

 

Communication, Feedback & Difficult Conversations in Neurodiverse Teams

 

Audience: Managers, Team Leaders, Whole Teams

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Communication differences are a natural part of working with other people, yet workplace expectations often favour particular ways of expressing ideas, interpreting feedback, and navigating relationships. These differences can lead to misunderstandings, unnecessary conflict, and missed opportunities for collaboration.

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This workshop explores how neurodiversity shapes workplace communication and how teams can navigate differences more effectively. Through practical exercises and applied discussion, participants learn strategies for setting clearer expectations, giving and receiving meaningful feedback, navigating difficult conversations, and addressing misunderstandings without making assumptions about intent or capability. The focus is on building trust, strengthening collaboration, and creating communication practices that work for more people.

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Accessible Workplace Systems & Practices

 

Navigating Disclosure & Accommodations: Building Trust and Responding to Support Needs

 

Audience: HR, People & Culture, Disability Management Professionals, Managers, Leadership Teams

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Disclosure and accommodations are often treated as simple procedural steps, but in reality they are complex decisions shaped by power, risk, trust, and workplace culture. For many neurodivergent and disabled employees, deciding whether, when, and how to disclose can have significant personal and professional implications.

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This session explores the realities of workplace disclosure, barriers employees face when requesting support, and the role organizations play in creating safer, more accessible processes. Through practical examples and workplace scenarios, participants learn how to respond to disclosure conversations with greater confidence, navigate accommodation requests appropriately, and reduce unnecessary friction in support processes. The focus is on building consistent, respectful, and effective approaches that protect employee dignity, strengthen trust, and support accessibility.

 

Beyond Accommodations: Designing Neuroinclusive Ways of Working

 

Audience: HR, People & Culture, DEI Professionals, Managers, Leadership Teams

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Most workplaces rely on individual accommodations to address barriers after they arise. While accommodations remain essential, many common workplace barriers can be reduced or prevented by designing more accessible systems and practices from the start.

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This workshop explores how organizations can shift from reactive support toward proactive, inclusive workplace design. Participants examine everyday practices involving meetings, communication, workload management, performance expectations, and team collaboration to identify where unnecessary barriers exist. Through practical examples and guided exercises, participants learn how to apply universal design principles, introduce greater flexibility, and create more accessible ways of working that benefit employees and organizations alike.

 

Beyond Getting Hired: Career Development & Advancement for Neurodivergent Employees

 

Audience: HR, Talent Development Professionals, Managers, Leadership Teams

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Creating employment opportunities for neurodivergent people is important, but inclusion doesn't end when someone gets hired. Traditional approaches to career development, leadership potential, and advancement can unintentionally disadvantage employees whose strengths, communication styles, or professional goals don't align with conventional expectations.

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This workshop examines the barriers neurodivergent employees may encounter when accessing professional development, mentorship, promotions, and leadership opportunities. Participants explore how assumptions about professionalism, visibility, confidence, and capability influence talent decisions, and learn practical strategies to create more equitable pathways for growth. The focus is on recognizing potential, supporting meaningful career development, and ensuring neurodivergent employees have opportunities to thrive and advance.

 

Neuroinclusive Recruitment & Hiring: Assessing Capability, Not Conformity

 

Audience: HR, Talent Acquisition Professionals, Hiring Managers

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Traditional hiring processes often evaluate how well candidates navigate recruitment conventions rather than how effectively they can perform the job. Unclear role requirements, rigid interviews, and subjective judgments about candidate fit can unintentionally exclude capable neurodivergent applicants.

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This workshop takes a practical approach to identifying and removing barriers throughout the recruitment and hiring process. Participants explore how to distinguish essential job requirements from unnecessary preferences, design accessible job descriptions and assessments, conduct more effective interviews, and evaluate candidates using consistent, relevant criteria. Through applied exercises and real workplace examples, participants learn how to build fairer, more accessible hiring practices that help organizations recognize talent they might otherwise overlook.

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Neurodiversity, Identity & Intersectionality

 

Neurodiversity 101: Understanding Neurodiversity in the Workplace

 

Audience: All Employees, Managers, HR Professionals, Leadership Teams

Format: 60 or 90 Minute Presentation

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Neurodiversity is a natural part of human variation, yet many workplace practices are built around narrow expectations of how people should think, communicate, learn, and work. Understanding neurodiversity is an important first step toward creating workplaces where different minds can contribute and succeed.

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This engaging, accessible introduction explores key concepts related to neurodiversity, neurodivergence, disability, and neuroinclusion while challenging common misconceptions and stereotypes. Participants examine how neurological differences can shape workplace experiences and learn practical strategies for communicating, collaborating, and supporting colleagues more effectively. The focus is on building understanding, challenging assumptions, and identifying meaningful actions that contribute to a more inclusive workplace.

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Neuroqueer: Exploring Neurodivergence & 2SLGBTQIA+ Identity

 

Audience: All Employees, HR, DEI Professionals, Employee Resource Groups, Leadership Teams

Format: 60 or 90 Minute Presentation

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Neurodivergence and 2SLGBTQIA+ identities frequently intersect, shaping experiences of belonging, authenticity, disclosure, and safety in the workplace. Yet conversations about inclusion often treat these identities separately, overlooking how social expectations and workplace norms affect people navigating multiple marginalized identities.

This session introduces the concept of neuroqueering and explores how neurodivergent and queer experiences can challenge conventional expectations around identity, communication, behaviour, and professionalism. Participants examine the pressures to mask, conform, or minimize aspects of themselves and explore practical strategies for creating environments where people have greater freedom to participate and express themselves authentically. The focus is on moving beyond tolerance toward workplaces that genuinely make room for human difference.

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Gender & Neurodiversity: Understanding the Intersection

 

Audience: All Employees, HR, DEI Professionals, Employee Resource Groups, Leadership Teams

Format: 60 or 90 Minute Presentation

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Gender plays a significant role in how neurodivergence is recognized, understood, and supported. Historically narrow understandings of conditions like ADHD and autism have contributed to women, transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse people being overlooked, misdiagnosed, or identified later in life.

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This session explores how gender expectations shape experiences of neurodivergence, including masking, diagnosis, workplace performance, burnout, and access to support. Participants examine common stereotypes, recognize how overlapping identities influence workplace experiences, and explore practical strategies for creating more inclusive environments. The focus is on challenging assumptions about what neurodivergence looks like and ensuring workplace practices recognize and support a wider range of experiences.

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Customized Training & Applied Learning

 

Neuroinclusion Case Study Clinic: From Complex Challenges to Practical Solutions

 

Audience: HR, People & Culture Professionals, Managers, Leadership Teams

Format: Half Day or Full Day Customized Workshop

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Understanding neuroinclusion in theory is one thing. Applying it to complex workplace situations, where competing needs, unclear expectations, organizational pressures, and human relationships intersect, is another.

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This highly interactive workshop uses realistic workplace scenarios and anonymized challenges drawn from your organization's context to strengthen practical judgment, problem solving, and decision making. Participants work through situations involving communication, performance management, disclosure, accommodations, interpersonal conflict, and workplace accessibility.

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Rather than relying on generic solutions or rigid best practices, participants learn to examine situations from multiple perspectives, identify underlying barriers, consider organizational responsibilities, and develop thoughtful, contextually appropriate responses.

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Every Case Study Clinic is designed around your organization's needs, providing relevant scenarios, guided discussion, and practical approaches participants can apply to the challenges they encounter in their work.

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Flexible Learning Options

 

Training can be delivered virtually or in person, with formats ranging from engaging presentations to interactive workshops and customized learning experiences.

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Sessions can be delivered individually, adapted to your organization's priorities, or combined into a learning series that builds knowledge, strengthens practical skills, and supports meaningful change over time.

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Whether you're introducing neurodiversity concepts, developing more inclusive leaders, or redesigning workplace practices, we'll work together to create learning experiences that are relevant, practical, and grounded in your organization's needs.

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Consulting & Advisory Services

Neuroinclusive Workplace Diagnostic

Identify where your workplace design may be creating friction, underperformance, and burnout.

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A structured assessment of:

  • Policies

  • Management practices

  • Accommodation processes

  • Leadership competence

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Outputs:

  • Top 5 re-design opportunities

  • Where people show up (meetings, roles, communication, etc.)

  • What to fix first (prioritized)

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Neuroinclusive Leadership Lab

Train managers to identify and fix design problems instead of mislabeling them as performance issues.

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Core outcomes:

  • Spot design vs people problems

  • Reduce unnecessary performance management

  • Create clarity without micromanaging

  • Handle variability without panic

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Audience:

  • HR business partners

  • People managers

  • Disability Centers of Excellence

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Structure:

  • 4–6 sessions

  • Case-based learning

  • Operational frameworks

Customized Advisory

Audits & Recommendations

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  • Recruitment & Hiring Process - Assess job postings, interview structure, onboarding program, etc. 

  • Accommodations Policy - Assess accessibility, timeliness, etc.

  • Internal Programs - Assess the accessibility and inclusivity of internal mentoring programs, leadership development programs, etc.)

  • Performance Management Frameworks - Assess existing systems and resources related to employee performance.

  • and more!

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Questions about making your workplace neuro-inclusive?

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If you have a specific question or case you would like expert advice and support with, I offer consulting services at an hourly rate or packages as outlined above. Contact me for more information on how I can support you!

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Neuro-Coaching

Gill has coached hundreds of neurodivergent people, and their managers, in a large variety of workplaces (eg. banks, veterinary clinics, tech companies, consulting firms, the public service, non-profits, etc.). Coaching can be individual or it can include other stakeholders, such as a manager or HR representative. Coaching can be purchased in blocks of hours that can be assigned to a specific employee or employee and their manager, or a block of shared hours that are made available to a larger group. 

 

One-on-one coaching can support any workplace's neuro-inclusion goals.

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Coaching can be the right tool to support with:

  • Neuro-inclusive onboarding development

  • Accommodation request for Autistic, ADHD, or similarly neurodivergent team members

  • Career development or progression coaching for high-potential neurodivergent leaders

  • Remedial coaching to support with performance challenges

    • Time management​

    • Organization

    • Communication

  • And more!​​​

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Book a call to learn more about how coaching can be the strategy your workplace is looking for!

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Thinking Ahead...

It's time to start planning your organization's educational and awareness raising events!

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