The board wants to know what we're doing on neurodiversity. What do I tell them?

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Page one of the guide, showing the 2026 evidence on the gap between leader confidence and employee experience Page two of the guide, listing the six things a neurodiversity strategy should contain

Leaders are confident. Their neurodivergent employees are not

What leaders say

70 to 80%

of leaders are confident their organisation is neuroinclusive

What employees say

32 to 38%

of neurodivergent employees feel safe, trust adjustments will happen or feel understood

That gap widened in 2026. Most employers are now aware of neurodiversity. Far fewer have turned that awareness into adjustments that happen.

Source: Neurodiversity Index 2026, City & Guilds Foundation with Do-IT Solutions. 2,200+ participants, ten sectors, UK.

Sound familiar?

We've run the awareness sessions. I'm not sure what actually changed

The guide separates activity from outcome and shows you how to tell whether a strategy is working.

Adjustments get agreed and then sit in a queue

Neurodivergent staff are twice as likely to wait more than three months for an agreed adjustment. The guide sets out what an adjustments process with a time standard and an owner looks like.

The board wants a strategy, not a list of what we've run

Six components, each backed by 2026 UK data, that you can hold your current approach up against.

Jenefer Livings, founder of Silk Helix

Written by Jenefer Livings

Founder, Silk Helix. MA, Chartered MCIPD, PGCert Neurodiversity

Jenefer is a neurodiversity specialist with 20 years of HR behind her. She is a Chartered MCIPD HR consultant, a qualified workplace needs assessor and neurodivergent herself. She brings lived experience alongside professional expertise to help organisations turn awareness into adjustments that happen and employees who feel understood.

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