Seeking success, exploring neurodiversity to progress your career
Strengths-based, solution-focused coaching with Clare McNamara.
Enabling you as a neurodistinct professional to work at your best and add value to your business.
In a thriving forest, there are many varieties of tree: diversity is essential to support healthy ecosystems.
Neurodiverse teams are critical to long-term business success.
Just as different species of trees fill distinct niches and have different optimal physical and environmental conditions, so do human beings. When different thinking patterns are embraced, teams think about problems in multiple ways and are more innovative.
When you take into account the whole ecosystem, proactively identify individual strengths and ensure everyone has the opportunity to work at their best, you lay the foundations for growth and sustainable success.
My job, as a coach specialising in neurodiversity, is to enable professionals and their colleagues to truly bring to life EDI. With the practical tools to recognise and respect each other’s needs the seeds of an inclusive workplace culture can be sown.
In this way, neurodivergent professionals can be part of the solution, supporting everyone to work effectively together within an inclusive workplace culture. In an environment where talents are aligned, and personal and business needs are all met successfully.
What is Neurodiversity?
Neurodiversity refers to the different ways the brain functions and interprets information. Neurodivergent individuals often think quite differently to the majority of the population, learn in different ways, have different interests and motivations, possess particular talents, and have traits that society deems weaknesses. The majority of people are neurotypical: their brains work in the way society expects and social structures support.
There are many neurodivergent conditions, including attention deficit disorder (ADHD), autism, Tourette Syndrome, dyslexia and dyspraxia. I specialise in supporting professionals with ADHD and autism.
Compared to neurotypicals, neurodivergent people have sharp disparities in what they can do well and what they find difficult.
There is a great deal of overlap between conditions and everyone’s experience of neurodivergent traits is different. The aspect to focus on is what is needed to support an individual’s unique way of being, and how such conditions can be created and negotiated for everyone’s benefit
In the right environment, neurodiversity is a competitive advantage. When employees are supported to make the most of their diverse abilities, and when attention is shifted from weaknesses to strengths, hidden skills are given free rein to emerge.