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Brains Behind The Business©
East Yorkshire–based specialists in neuro-inclusive workplace wellbeing and training.
Neurodiversity Training & Workplace Wellbeing
You can see they're struggling.
You just don't know what to say.
The missed deadlines.
The quiet one in meetings.
The person who’s wiped out by Thursday.
We help managers go from “what’s wrong?” to “what do you need?”.
Because when work works for the people who find it hardest, it works for everyone.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Nobody showed you how. That's not on you.
You’ve got someone brilliant who keeps missing the small details. Someone who’s great one-to-one but silent in team meetings. A disclosure you weren’t ready for, and a worry that you’ll say the wrong thing.
So you say nothing, or you say it carefully and hope. Meanwhile they’re masking, running on empty, and quietly updating their CV.
You’ll rarely be told. You’ll almost always be shown.
WHAT CHANGES?
Six months from now, you'll know what to look for, and what to say.
You notice the change before it becomes a sick note. You start the conversation without needing a label. You agree a small adjustment over a coffee, not six weeks later by email.
And the person you were worried about losing is still there, doing some of the best work of their career.
1 in 5
employees are neurodivergent and most workplaces aren't designed with their brains in mind
76%
of workers report at least one symptom of burnout yet most wellbeing programmes don't address cognitive load
£££
lost annually to stress-related absence — the most preventable drain on your organisation's performance
FOR HR, PEOPLE & WELLBEING LEADS
You've done the policy. Your managers still don't know what to say.
You’ve invested in the EAP, the wellbeing policy and the mental health first aiders. But when someone’s struggling, it’s their manager they turn to first, and most managers were never shown how.
So it lands on your desk. The adjustment request that stalled. The performance conversation that became a grievance. The good person who left without anyone really knowing why.
We give your managers the confidence to handle it well, early and in the moment. You get CPD-accredited training you can log, report on and stand behind, and fewer things arriving on your desk as a crisis.
It’s not a people problem. It’s a design problem and it can be fixed.
Because when work works for the people who find it hardest, it works for everyone.
Awareness
Beyond the Label
Start The Conversation
An interactive awareness session for teams and managers. Real workplace scenarios, private reflection, and nobody put on the spot. Your team leaves asking “what do you need?” instead of “what’s wrong?”.
FOR MANAGERS · CPD-ACCREDITED
Founding cohort
Neurodivergent Inclusive Leadership & Management
Lead every brain in your team.
A programme for line managers that brings neurodiversity knowledge and coaching skills together. It covers understanding neurodiversity, masking and burnout, mental health, inclusive communication, adjustments and difficult conversations.
OPEN EVENT
Struggling at work, or watching someone who is?
Our neurodiversity workplace event brings together specialists in dyslexia, the nervous system, coping and addiction and inclusive learning, hosted by Brains Behind the Business. Come for yourself, or bring your team. No label needed.
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Nobody showed you how.
That's not on you.
You’ve got someone brilliant who keeps missing the small details. Someone who’s great one-to-one but silent in team meetings. A disclosure you weren’t ready for, and a worry that you’ll say the wrong thing.
So you say nothing, or you say it carefully and hope. Meanwhile they’re masking, running on empty, and quietly updating their CV.
You’ll rarely be told. You’ll almost always be shown.
Your people aren't lacking resilience.
You’ve invested in mental health first aid, updated the wellbeing policy, added an EAP.
And yet your absence rates, your manager feedback, your retention figures… none of it has shifted the way you hoped.
That’s not a people problem. It’s a design problem.
The way most workplaces are designed works well for some brains and not for others. Until you account for the full range of how people think, process, and perform – your wellbeing strategy will always be managing symptoms rather than addressing causes.
And the same is true of your leadership development. Managers can’t support what they don’t understand. They can’t lead diverse teams effectively without the knowledge, language, and tools to do it well.
OUr Mission
To build a better baseline - where every programme, every manager conversation, and every team structure is designed to work for every kind of brain.
Our Approach
Neuro-Led Performance And Wellbeing® - here's what that means in practice.
We don’t do one-off awareness days.
We build knowledge, capability, and culture so the change compounds long after we’ve left the room.
Start With the Brain
Before we change what your people do, we understand what’s driving the patterns – from the nervous system up. Biology first, behaviour second. That’s what makes the difference stick.
Precise Interventions
No generic toolkits. Every workshop and programme is built around your team’s neurology, their specific blockers, and the minimum effective dose of change that sticks.
Built To Last
We build habits, language, and team culture that compounds over time. The goal isn’t a good training day. It’s a team that operates differently six months later.
who we work with
Three Ways To Work With Us.
Whether you’re an organisation, a practitioner, or a business wanting to become more neuro-inclusive – there’s a starting point for you.
For Organisations
Transform How Your Team Thinks, Works, and Leads
Workshops and programmes delivered directly to your managers and teams – building the knowledge, capability, and culture for every brain to perform at its best.
- 2-hour standalone workshops - pick, choose, or bundle
- 6-month Neuro-Led Performance & Wellbeing® Programme
- Manager and all-staff tracks available
- In-person delivery, up to 15 per session
For Practitioners
Become a Trusted Neurodivergent Specialist
CPD-accredited training for coaches, VAs and support workers who want to work more confidently and effectively with neurodivergent clients.
- CPD-accredited certification programme
- Practical frameworks you can use immediately
- Designed for those already working in people-focused roles
- Suitable for coaches, VAs and wellbeing practitioners
For Businesses
Make Your Existing Programmes Neuro-Inclusive
Already delivering leadership or wellbeing programmes? We work with you to audit, redesign, and future-proof your content and delivery so it works for every brain in the room.
- Neuro-inclusive programme audit
- Content and delivery redesign
- Trainer and facilitator upskilling
- Ongoing consultancy and advisory
accreditations & memberships
01
Neuro-Inclusive Programmes
Corporate & Workplace Training
Most workplaces genuinely want to support neurodivergent employees but without the right knowledge, tools and structures, good intentions can still lead to overwhelm, miscommunication or burnout.
And with wellbeing reports showing rising stress and burnout, organisations need approaches that look beyond resilience training and into the way work and wellness is designed.
This is where we come in. We help organisations recognise the unique strengths of neurodivergent minds and build environments where people can do their best work without masking, fighting their brain, or burning out trying to fit in.
02
Training Academy
Training & Certification for Service Providers
If you support ADHD or neurodivergent clients, you need more than good intentions.. you need the right training!
Working with neurodivergent people is powerful, rewarding, and deeply impactful…
but only when you know how their brains process information, make decisions, communicate, and emotionally regulate.
Most professionals were never taught this. So they end up guessing. Masking their confusion. Or over-helping out of fear of getting it wrong.
That’s where we step in. We train coaches, VAs, OBMs, social media managers, support workers, and service providers to work with the brain, not against it … safely, ethically, and effectively.
03
Entrepreneurs Support Hub
Agency & Operational Support
Because sometimes you don’t need more training… you need things done.
We support ADHD and neurodivergent-led businesses with structure, systems, content and operational care – taking away the overwhelm and giving you consistency, clarity and calm so your business can finally move forward.
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