Dr. Maureen Dunne is a globally renowned cognitive scientist, neurodiversity expert, global keynote speaker, and neurodistinct business leader and entrepreneur who has served as a senior adviser and lead trainer to some of the world’s top brands, Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, philanthropic foundations, venture capital and investment funds. She approaches her work from the perspective of a trained professional who has also lived the experience. 

She is the author of “The Neurodiversity Edge: The Essential Guide to Embracing Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Differences for Any Organization.” The Neurodiversity Edge made several bestseller lists and won or was shortlisted for 14 awards, including USA Today’s National Bestselling Booklist, Goody’s Best Business Book – Big Ideas, the Literary Titan Gold Book Award, Medalist at the Stevie Awards for Best Business Book, Top Five Finalist for Business Impact at the getAbstract International Book Awards, currently shortlisted for the UK Business Book Awards (BBA) and won the 2025 Gold Medalist for the Axiom Business Book Award for Independent Thought Leadership. 

As CEO of Autism Community Ventures and global head of the NODI: Neurodiversity + Opportunity drives Innovation initiative, she has worked with esteemed corporations, universities, and nonprofit organizations as a keynote speaker and lead trainer to help them become more neuroinclusive, including LEGO Foundation and LEGO Ecosystem, Alvarez & Marsal, Ballie Gifford, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Lexia Learning, 3M, AbbVIE, Harper College, Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Cornell University, CFA Society Initiatives, Oxy, Chiesi, University Health Network (UHN), NASA, United Nations, and Simon & Shulster, among many others, including countless corporate events and leadership retreats. 

A social impact entrepreneur at heart, Dr. Dunne co-founded the Autism Angels Group and the Neurodiverse Entrepreneur Program to establish critical support and opportunity pathways for neurodivergent/neurodistinct entrepreneurs. She also pioneered the Davos Neurodiversity Summit during the World Economic Forum as she saw a need for neuroinclusive leadership and business partners to come together to solve our greatest challenges.

Her work has been featured in prestigious outlets such as MIT Sloan Management Review, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Harper’s Bazaar, Big Think, Radical Respect Podcast with NYT Bestselling author Kim Scott, Nasdaq, Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, People Management, NPR, HR Magazine, and UNLEASH among many others. 

She received the 2024 Impact Award from the Golden Apple Foundation and the 2025 PBS Difference Makers Award, being featured on the PBS show “A World of Difference.” She earned her doctorate from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.   

Celebrate Difference serves the ADHD Community by empowering them to embrace their ADHD as a strength rather than living in a deficit based world.

Celebrate Difference’s  support comes in many forms, whether it be a conversation in their private community of ADHDers or Employability Support, they will help you Celebrate Your Difference.

For the last 16 years, Nicola has mentored and coached entrepreneurs running their own businesses. As she navigated her understanding of her own diagnosed neurodivergences (Adhd, Dyspraxia and Autism!), she launched Celebrate Difference and renovated The HUB Consett, creating a working culture, community and safe space which are inclusive by design.

Alex Partridge is one of the pioneers of social media content the way we know it today. At age 21, he founded UNILAD and LADBible, two of the most popular social news and entertainment Internet companies in the world with an astonishing following of 100 million people around the globe.

At 34 years old, Alex was diagnosed with ADHD and has quickly become a leading voice on social media around neurodiversity. His impassioned views on entrepreneurship and neurodiversity has quickly amassed him a following of over three million people.

Alex now hosts the award-winning podcast, ADHD Chatter. He shares everything he’s learnt about ADHD in his Sunday Times Bestselling Book entitled ‘Now It All Makes Sense: How An ADHD Diagnosis Brought Clarity To My Life’.

Alex has spoken over 300 times for various brands, conferences and events including for Formula 1, BBC, Drapers, TED, Experian, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and British Airways.

Ute Stephan is Professor of Entrepreneurship at King’s Business School at King’s College London. Ute is recognized as a leading expert on the psychology of entrepreneurship, as a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) and a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow. She ranks among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in Business & Management based on citations to her work (Stanford study). She researches how individuals and societies may thrive through entrepreneurship, studying well-being, stress & health and social entrepreneurship, as well as how context (culture and institutions) shape entrepreneurship.

She regularly publishes in leading international journals and has won multiple international awards for her research, including the prestigious 2025 JIBS decade award. She has attracted over EUR 3.7 million in funding from the European Commission, UK government institutions, research councils, and charities. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, The Times, Forbes, WIRED, BBC, and others. She serves as Associate editor at the Journal of Management and at Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and on the editorial boards of AMJ, AMR, and JBV. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of Applied Psychology. See also www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ute-stephan

Sharon is the Founder and CEO of the social enterprise Community Capacity Builders.

As an autistic social entrepreneur and systems thinker, Sharon has used her bottom-up and associative thinking skills, and her systemising capabilities, to develop and commercialise a number of social innovations. In 2016, Sharon received a Fresh Scientist Award for her innovative work in addressing wicked problems using complexity science, and in 2021 Sharon’s work in Applied Complexity (Social Entrepreneurship & Wicked Problems) was recognised on the Map of the Complexity Sciences.

Community Capacity Builders has established a Centre for Autistic Social Entrepreneurship. This Centre has recently piloted a Program for Autistic Innovators, Systemisers and Social Entrepreneurs; and is now developing a program to build the capacity of disability service providers, social enterprise support organisations, and business advisors to provide services to autistic social entrepreneurs in a neurodiversity-affirming manner. In addition to a PhD, Sharon holds Masters Degrees in Entrepreneurship and Autism.

Johan Wiklund  is a distinguished professor in entrepreneurship at Syracuse University. He is considered a leading authority in entrepreneurship research with over 100 published articles and 50,000 citations. His pioneering work on neurodiversity has shed light on the unique strengths and challenges faced by entrepreneurs with conditions such as ADHD. He is Editor-in-Chief for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, a premier entrepreneurship journal. Johan has played a pivotal role in mentoring young scholars, receiving the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Mentor Award in 2011

Professor of Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck University of London; Joint Lead at the Centre for Neurodiversity Research at Work (C4NDRAW) 

Almuth is Professor of Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck University of London in the School of Psychological Sciences. She leads the Centre for Neurodiversity Research at Work (C4NDRAW) together with her academic best friend Dr Nancy Doyle.

Nancy and Almuth have co-authored the new book on Neurodiversity Coaching. Almuth has won awards for her research and her commitment to furthering the practice of psychology in the workplace in the UK. Her research has been funded by Neurodiversity in Business, the Ministry of Defence, the College of Policing, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Home Office, as well as a range of other funders.  

She regularly contributes to the media fuelled by her belief that research needs to speak to organisations directly to have impact and contemporary relevance. She is a Chartered Psychologist, Academic Fellow of the CIPD and Fellow of the International Society for Coaching Psychology working with the private, public and third sector delivering bespoke assignments, often at senior levels.

Introducing Danielle Cudjoe-Michalski, a Project Manager and founder of ‘Thinking Light Coach’, who also served as co-founder and co-lead of the Neurodiversity Network (NDN) at GSK.  

In her role at NDN, Danielle spearheads initiatives to empower neurodiverse individuals within the organisation. Danielle’s mission is to create a space where neurodiverse people feel not only empowered but actively leverage their unique cognitive strengths.  Her expertise in neurodiversity spans multiple domains: certified as an ICF ACC coach, consultant, TEDx speaker, and trainer.  

Leveraging her extensive 18-year corporate career and personal experience as a neurodiverse individual, Danielle supports individuals, facilitates groups, and offers invaluable insights to organisations seeking to create a more neuro-inclusive workplace culture.

Tamsin is a career coach and has been working in independent practice since 2009. She undertook a MSc Career Management and Coaching 2018, and from this programme recently published her research, along with her supervisor, Prof Almuth McDowall, which explored the career successes and strengths of adults with ADHD.

This experience was a catalyst for further research ambitions and she is now studying for an MSc Psychology, looking to specialise in coaching psychology. If no one gets there first, she’d love to focus her MSc research on the entrepreneurship experiences of ADHDers (predominantly inattentive type).

She works with a range of clients, and has a particular interest in supporting NDers, bringing both lived experience (she was diagnosed ADHD in 2017), and significant professional development. She is a registered career development professional (through Career Development Institute), and ICF accredited. She lives outside London with her three ND boys, her husband, and an incredibly tolerant dog. When not studying, or working in her practice, or wrangling teenage boys, she loves a bit of gardening. Particularly when avoiding an essay deadline…..