Design Workshop
Create the blueprint for your company’s neurodiversity initiative.
Created in partnership with Wells Fargo, this free, full-day workshop teaches companies step-by-step how to build a neurodiversity program for their organization.
What is it?
Approximately 8 times per year, experts from UConn's center and Wells Fargo's Neurodiversity Ecosystem Program host and lead a full-day, hands-on workshop for groups of companies. Participants spend the day building out their organization's strategy and plan for a neurodiversity initiative.
Workshops are fully funded. Yes, that means free.
Wells Fargo's grant to UConn funds this unique opportunity for employers so that cost of this education is eliminated as a barrier. Those organizations that want to lean into this important work need accessible, high quality education that helps them succeed.
Who leads the workshops?
Workshop content was developed by blending real-world industry application and expertise with academic and research excellence. Wells Fargo and UConn experts co-deliver the education to ensure that blended approach is available in real-time while participants learn and ask questions.
Where do workshops happen?
Workshops take place across the U.S. The goal is to make this opportunity available to as broad an audience as possible for corporate America.
Workshops solve the challenge employers have of not knowing how to move from awareness about neurodiversity, to action.
UConn's center and Wells Fargo are continuously approached by organizations asking for help building their neuroinclusive practices. Where do we start? What does it entail? Who should be on the stakeholder team? How do we secure executive support?
So we partnered to develop a solution.
These fully-funded workshops offer companies a (free) educational experience that delivers structured, sequential instruction that is based in academic design excellence and fueled by corporate expertise and application. It allows those employers committed to neuroinclusion a way to move past talking with experts, and onto building their practices with confidence and guidance.
What You'll Learn
Through direct instruction and guided development of your plan, the workshop covers how to:
- Find the support of an executive champion
- Build and present the business case for neurodiversity
- Know what the components of neuroinclusion across an organization
- Know which stakeholders you'll need to bring along across functional areas
- Design and execute a hiring cycle using neuroinclusive practices
- Educate all employees about neurodiversity
Who from your organization should attend?
Workshops are attended by 3-5 key leaders from your organization. Workshops typically include participants from 10-12 companies. Suggested participants are:
- Cultural, transformational, and workforce strategy leads
- Human resources / talent acquisition professionals
- DE&I managers
- Learning & development experts
- Hiring managers from any business line
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