Is your business doing enough to support neurodiverse talent?
Embracing neurodiversity means recognising and valuing these differences and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. By understanding and supporting neurodiverse employees, you can unlock unique talents and perspectives that drive innovation and success.
Join Reed and our guest speakers, Jo Major, Founder of Diversity in Recruitment, and Daff Richardson and Victoria Spires from law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper, as they delve into the topic of neurodiversity and how organisations need to think differently about those that think differently.
During this exclusive event, Jo will highlight the importance of recognising and supporting neurodiverse individuals in the workplace, covering:
What neurodiversity is
Masking and its effects on both people and organisations
Why neuro-inclusion is important for workplaces
Steps organisations can take to be neuro inclusive.
Daff and Victoria will explore employers' legal responsibilities in supporting neurodivergent employees, focusing on the Equality Act 2010 and the duty to make reasonable adjustments. They will also examine the rising number of tribunal claims and work through a couple of real-life case studies.
Why attend?
This event is essential for HR professionals, managers, and anyone interested in creating a supportive and inclusive workplace. Attendees will gain practical insights into avoiding common pitfalls, implementing effective adjustments, and embedding neurodiversity into HR strategy.
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Our speakers
Jo Major, Founder, Diversity in Recruitment
Jo Major helps businesses hire for skills and potential in a market shaped by AI, automation and shifting talent demands.
With more than 25 years in recruitment and talent acquisition, Jo designs practical training, e-learning and advisory programmes that build bias-aware, human-centred hiring skills. She shows agencies and in-house teams how to create fair, accessible and commercially strong recruitment processes, centred around DE&I objectives.
Jo’s sessions are known for being straight-talking, practical and interactive, giving recruiters the tools to build broad, engaged talent communities and to future-proof their business by focusing on skills-based acquisition and workforce planning.
Daff Richardson, Partner, Penningtons Manches Cooper
Daff is a partner in the firm’s employment team and co-leads the education and charities sector group. Her practice for employers focuses mainly on tech and education sector clients, to whom she gives strategic advice on developing areas of employment law, as well as handling sensitive individual and collective employee relations situations, including advising on obligations under the Equality Act, re-organisations and restructuring, and senior executive appointments and departures.
Daff also advises employment clients on data protection questions including complex data subject access requests, data breaches and general compliance with data protection legislation.
She is recognised as a leader in her field in the legal directories where clients have praised her approach to their work. Chambers and Partners note that ‘she is extremely personable, very relaxed which in turn relaxes the client, and has a great deal of gravitas, building confidence in what you are trying to do’. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
Victoria Spires, Senior Associate, Penningtons Manches Cooper
Victoria is a senior associate in the employment team in Oxford. She advises on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law.
With particular expertise in acting for clients in the education, transport, technology and hospitality sectors, Victoria understands the regulatory constraints and reputational concerns which apply to them. She is experienced in defending complex discrimination claims for both employers and service providers.
Victoria is ranked in Chambers and Partners and is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association. She regularly presents at training sessions on a variety of topics including handling workplace investigations, responding to employment tribunal claims and managing bullying and harassment.
