Knowing the challenges that neurodiversity can present in everyday life, I am a member of the expert panel at Intellectus Strategies CIC, a Community Interest Company that delivers workplace systems redesign and community support for neurodivergent people.

'If you search for support with neurodiversity at work, you will find two separate worlds.

    
One talks about the invisible environment — systems, culture, communication, management, the cost of masking in organisations that were never designed for how your brain works.

The other talks about the built environment — lighting, acoustics, spatial design, sensory processing, the physical spaces where neurodivergent people spend their days.

Both have research.
Both have practitioners.
Both have standards.
But they do not talk to each other.

The HR director redesigning performance reviews has never heard of BSI PAS 6463. The architect designing the new office has never heard of allostatic load. The neurodivergent employee burning out at 3pm is living in both worlds at once — and nobody is joining them up.'
 

Paulina Ellis, Founder of Intellectus Stratgies CIC

 

By gaining a deeper understanding of the 'invisible side', sharing the architect's perspective and combining both, we hope to foster a world where each complements the other and neither exists in isolation.​​

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