Neurodiversity in the Workplace — Stop Fixing People, Start Fixing Work with Paula Brockwell

Neurodiversity in the Workplace — Stop Fixing People, Start Fixing Work with Paula Brockwell

From The Elephant in the Org by The Fearless PX

February 18, 2026 · 52 min · Season 3 · Episode 16

About this episode

Paula Brockwell discusses the importance of redesigning workplace structures to better support neurodivergent employees.

Send us Fan Mail Neurodiversity in the workplace isn’t an accommodation issue. It’s a design issue. Paula Brockwell returns to The Elephant in the Org — following her Season 1 appearance, which remains one of our most downloaded episodes — to go deeper into the structural realities of neurodiversity at work. In this conversation, we move beyond awareness and compliance to examine workplace architecture itself. If your neurodivergent employees are masking, burning out, or underperforming, the ...

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Host: The Fearless PX

Guest: Paula Brockwell

Topics covered

  • neurodiversity
  • workplace design
  • employee well-being
  • structural realities
  • accommodation issues
  • workplace architecture

Keywords

  • neurodiversity
  • workplace
  • employee performance
  • masking
  • burnout
  • accommodation
  • design issue

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Organizations: The Elephant in the Org, The Fearless PX

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