Parenting a neurodivergent kid made me a better leader.
It helped me deepen my capacity for regulation and co-regulation. It showed me how narrow my own default ways of operating can be. It exposed me to how much brilliance our systems quietly suppress — and how much more becomes available when we create conditions for other ways of operating to be here.
It all adds up to a theory:
Understanding more about how other people operate makes us better leaders, collaborators, educators, parents - and humans.
Neuro Empathy Lab is a place to test that theory together.
What we'll explore
In this interactive 90-minute virtual workshop, we’ll explore ADHD, Autism, and “neurotypical” experiences through brief learning, creative simulations, and conversation.
We’ll look at what can happen when we assume other people experience the world the way we do - and what becomes possible when we get curious instead.
You’ll leave with:
a deeper understanding of different neurotypes and how they may experience the same situation differently
a new lens for interpreting behaviour that might otherwise seem confusing, difficult, or disengaged
greater awareness of your own default ways of operating — and where they may not work for someone else
practical insight into regulation, communication, collaboration, and belonging
a clearer sense of how our environments and systems can suppress — or make space for — the intelligence people bring
And, hopefully, a little more curiosity about what someone else might be seeing that you can't.
Who it's for
Leaders, educators, HR professionals, parents, coaches, therapists — and anyone interested in accessing more of the intelligence already present within people, teams, and systems.
Tuesday, September 29
12:00–1:30 pm ET
Virtual · 90 minutes · Free
I’m currently researching a book about leadership in complexity through the lens of neurodivergence.
I’m offering Neuro Empathy Lab for free in exchange for your participation and feedback. What we learn together will help me test, challenge, and deepen the ideas I’m exploring in the book.
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This experience is an antidote to the “Double Empathy Problem” - which points to the assumption that when communication difficulties arise between autistic and and non-autistic people, the assumption is that the difficulty is caused by the autistic person’s deficiency in social interaction.
The Double Empathy Problem course corrects by seeing this as a two-way street - says this is a two way street. The disconnection arises because people with different ways of experiencing and interpreting the world struggle to understand each other. The misunderstanding is mutual, not one-sided.