In this episode, Ashanti Bentil-Dhue speaks with Sara Kedge, a neuro diversity specialist and DEI practitioner who supports neuro diverse entrepreneurs via her online community called How to entrepreneur. Sara also assists people with adversity to help run and grow their businesses. Providing support for them, so they can understand what neurodiversity is, and how they can share some of their practices to make their workplaces more inclusive.

“ They were looking for somebody to manage an online community, which is essentially a space for any neurodivergent person who is running their own business, wants to grow their business, or start a business. So I started managing that group and my entry into that space kind of started from there, going into actually there's a space and a need here. For people like me to be able to be accepted, understood, and actually going into the corporate space, helping neurotypicals understand what the needs are, because newer divergent brains have such amazing value. ”

Episode Highlights: 

● Neurodivergent people and language

● The difference between neurodiversity assessment and other pieces of learning

● Being a neurodivergent person in education and work environments

About Sara Kedge: 

 

Sara Kedge (she/her) works with corporate leaders to create inclusive, healthy and more productive workplaces that work for everyone.

A renowned DEI Design Thinking Strategist, Coach and Trainer, Sara blends curiosity and playfulness with deep cross-functional knowledge. She prides herself on helping teams move out of stressful dysfunction to create human-focused workplace cultures where critical thinking – and people – are encouraged and valued. 

Sara carries the collective experience of the neurodivergent community into the solutions she co-creates with her clients. As the founder and curator of How 2 Entrepreneuro, an online community supporting neurodivergent entrepreneurs, Sara is constantly learning and hearing from the people she supports, most of whom have suffered burnout within the corporate or public sectors. 

Sara’s clients vary in reach from global to local, across a range of industries including academia and training institutions, public and third sector, technology, bio-medical and international development. 

Sara co-creates bespoke solutions for each new client challenge, drawing on years of change management consultancy and her current role as a lecturer for the Business and Management faculty at Oxford Brookes University. 

Sara’s commitment to delivering a playful, human-centred approach to transition and culture development, makes her an outstanding – and refreshingly unusual – asset to her clients.

 

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