Susanne Bruyère, a professor of Disability Studies and academic director of the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability at the Cornell ILR School, traces the opportunities and challenges encountered across the employment process in designing and implementing neurodiversity-affirmative hiring initiatives. Bruyère addresses the importance of creating a workplace culture that embraces a diverse workforce, including those who are neurodivergent.

The Cornell Keynotes podcast is brought to you by eCornell, which offers more than 200 online certificate programs to help professionals advance their careers and organizations. Susanne Bruyère is an author of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Building a Diverse Workforce certificate program. Other relevant Cornell online courses include Workplace Disability Inclusion and Autism at Work.

Reading List and Resources

• “Neurodiversity in the Workplace: Interests, Issues, and Opportunities” by Susanne Bruyère and Adrienne Colella (available at a 20% discount with the code FLA22)
• Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion – Neurodiversity in the Workplace
• Autism Transition to Adulthood Initiative
• Disability:IN Neurodiversity @ Work Roundtable
• College Autism Network
• Neurodiversity Hub (Australia)
• Autistic Self Advocacy Network – Identity-first Language
• Disabled World – What Is: Neurodiversity, Neurodivergent, Neurotypical

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