Before you book a neurodiversity speaker, run five checks.
Five questions that separate a talk your team keeps from one they sit through. The three from the ad, plus two more. Written by a speaker who would rather you asked.
- Lived or studied
- System or feeling
- The room test
- The access plan
- The follow-through
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Here they are.
Lived or studied
A speaker who has built around the thing describes it differently from one who has read about it. You are listening for specifics.
Ask: What have you personally had to build around?
System or feeling
Feelings are gone by Monday. A system is still there. Decide which one you are paying for.
Ask: What will my team be able to do on Monday that they could not do on Friday?
The room test
People keep what they laughed at. Watch unedited footage, not a highlight reel.
Ask: Can I see ten unedited minutes in front of a real room?
The access plan
A talk about access that is not accessible teaches the opposite. The delivery is part of the message.
Ask: How do you make the talk itself accessible to the people it is about?
The follow-through
The talk is the opening. What your team does with it afterwards is the result.
Ask: What do you leave behind when you walk off stage?
“He took a room full of leaders and quietly dismantled every assumption they had about neurodivergence. Then he handed them something better.”