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ADD / ADHD DEI Strategies for Tech Startups Workshop: How to Grow Better & Faster by Supporting Neurodivergent Team Members
October 13 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am
Join us to discover how to support your team members with ADHD or other neurodivergent conditions to increase your company productivity, profits, job satisfaction, team communication, employee retention, and more!
Over 366 Million Adults Have ADHD including Over 20% of Tech Employees.
How well do you understand and support yours?
While tech companies attract a much higher number of neurodivergent leaders and team members with ADD (Inattentive ADHD) and ADHD than other industries, most startups struggle with identifying, understanding, supporting, and managing their neurodivergent team members.
Your company is probably paying unnecessary costs, losing great employees, and losing efficiencies by not understanding how neurodivergent team members think and work.
This is a common problem because we haven’t been educated to understand how neurotypical brains and neurodivergent brains have different operating systems.
You wouldn’t expect an Android phone to be able to do certain things that only exist in an Apple iOS operating system, but we expect people with neurodivergent brains to be able to do neurotypical tasks well because neurotypical systems are considered to be the ‘normal’ way that ‘everyone’ does something.
The Benefits
– Strengthen your management skills to support team members with ADHD and neurodiverse brains
– Attract and retain some of your most innovative and valuable team members
– Develop communication skills proven to bridge the gap between neurotypical and neurodiverse communication styles
– Increase your company productivity, profits, job satisfaction, team communication, employee retention, and more
