E039: Lucy Smith on helping education and organisations become more inclusive

Lucy Smith is a Serial Social Entrepreneur and Founder of Inclusive Change, and we talk about identifying as neurodiverse including the challenges in the workplace, and to mental health. Lucy is on a mission to educate organisations to be more inclusive and continue to understand and support on an individual basis as many diversities as possible. Finding ways to facilitate wellbeing, and success to be remarkable.

Topics:

• Neurodiversity
• 30 year career in Civil Service
• Autistic child diagnosis
• Late Diagnosis
• Future of work with neurodiversity in mind
• Thrive in the workplace and education
• Tech systems to keep everything together
• Identifying as neurodiverse
• Understanding Neurodiversity for organisations
• Treating everyone as an individual
• Recognising behaviours and challenges
• Afternoon naps for the win!

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Illyana Mullins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/illyana-mullins/

Dan Biddle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-biddle-329855207/

Auticon: https://auticon.com/uk/

Book reference: NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman

Lucy

Inclusive Change: https://inclusivechange.co.uk/

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucysmith310/

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