Leading in a Neuroplural World
More than as seat at THE table, we’d like to know:
What’s happening at yours?
Leading in a Neuroplural World is a creative learning leadership course designed for leaders - executives, educators, parents, coaches, and people and culture professionals - committed to deepening their leadership and cultivating high-functioning, inclusive systems.
Through the lenses of neurodivergence and neuropluralism - the view that there are many valid ways of mind - the course facilitates a transformative shift in perspective. Participants gain tools for self-leadership and relationship leadership, and learn how to design teams and organizations where difference becomes a catalyst for creativity and collective efficacy.
At its core, Leading in a Neuroplural World is about understanding each other better and being able to connect and communicate in ways that allow creativity, contribution, and well-being to flow naturally. When people feel seen and systems are designed for diversity, workplaces become vibrant, effective, and alive with learning.
In a world of accelerating complexity and constant change, leaders are called to cultivate environments where every mind can contribute its best. Yet most workplaces and leadership paradigms still assume a “standard” way of thinking and communicating. At best, we make accommodations so that so-called divergent minds can “fit in” with the standard, diverting their energy to masking rather than cultivating their unique contributions.
Research shows that 15–20% of the population is neurodivergent - including those with ADHD, autism, or combined AuDHD profiles. In Canada, roughly 27% of adults report at least one disability, and 1.8–2% of adults and children are autistic. The capacity to lead across neurotypes is no longer optional; it is essential to modern leadership. Authentic and inclusive environments significantly enhance creativity, problem-solving, and team performance for everyone.
Learning Pillars
Neurotypes have varying relationships to these leadership capacities. When we learn together, we see the challenges each of us faces, the gifts each brings, and how collective intelligence emerges through difference.
Emotional Regulation
The ability to respond rather than react, building presence and resilience.
Attunement and Emergence
Sensing patterns, listening beyond words, and leading in complex, adaptive environments.
Systems Awareness
Recognizing how structures, rules, and cultures shape human experience - and how to redesign them for inclusion and performance..
Course Content
Inclusive language, trust, relational safety: Explore the origins and meanings of key concepts and language - creating shared understanding and a sense of safety in relationship.
Social Constructs and Historical Context: Origin of the concept of “normal” (medicalization of health, industrial capitalism, and the statistical “average”), how these ideas still govern in health, education, organizational policies, and performativity in workplaces.
Neuroscience of Neurotypes: How brain chemistry and connectivity differ across the main profiles (neurotypical, ADHD, ASD, AuDHD), and how those differences shape perception, attention, awareness, intention, and behaviour.
Lived Experience: Understanding the core profile of each neurotype, their lived experiences, including within systems, and how these influence engagement, creativity, communication, collaboration, performance.
Skill Building: Tools for self-awareness and regulation, presence, emotional intelligence, compassionate communication, curiosity, feedback, and presence.
Complexity Theory and Systems Thinking: How to lead emergence, design adaptive systems, and create spaces that allow unique contributions to flourish.
This is an invitation to test your leadership - and take it further
When this learning takes place through the lens of neuropluralism, it exposes the limitations of our systems and their impact on us all; so that we may adjust and rebuild them to optimize everyone’s creativity, efficacy, and opportunity to contribute.
While the course explores neurodiversity and inclusion, it is fundamentally about leadership that enables us all to flourish. True leadership is reflected in environments where everyone, including those for whom our systems were not designed, contributes their unique gifts.