EDEI Committee Event: Cracking the Code: How Neurodiversity Elevates Your Team
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM | East Red Level, Suite 10
Cracking the Code: How Neurodiversity Elevates Your Team
What if the key to team innovation, performance, and retention isn’t just found in personality types or leadership styles—but in how we honor cognitive diversity?
This dynamic workshop introduces professionals to the foundational principles of neurodiversity and its powerful impact on teams, leadership, and organizational culture. We’ll go beyond surface-level definitions to explore how neurodivergent identities—such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and anxiety—intersect with race, gender, disability, and socio-economic status. This intersectional lens is critical: because when inclusion doesn’t account for complexity, it unintentionally reinforces the same barriers it claims to dismantle.
Led by Kelly Colon, a nationally recognized neurodivergent mindset coach and educator, this session blends real-world insight with practical tools. Participants will gain a deep understanding of:
- Neurodiversity Fundamentals: Common neurotypes and how they shape work, communication, and learning styles.
- The Power of Intersectionality: Why neurodivergence doesn’t exist in a vacuum—and how systems of power, privilege, and policy influence who gets supported and who gets overlooked.
- Inclusive Integration: How to embed neuroinclusive practices into your team’s policies, programs, and physical environments to create cultures where all minds can thrive—not just survive.
This session is ideal for HR leaders, managers, team leads, and workplace designers ready to move from awareness to action. You’ll leave with tangible strategies and reframed perspectives to ensure neurodivergent team members are not just included—but truly valued.
Speaker:
Kelly Colon, Founder, Executive Function Coach, Professor and, Neurodiversity Educator, Eledex Consulting
Biography:
Kelly Colón is a neurodivergent educator, professor, and executive function coach with over 25 years of experience in facilities, planning, and organizational design, and more than a decade teaching in higher education. As the founder of Eledex Consulting, LLC, Kelly leads a neuroaffirming coaching and training practice dedicated to supporting neurodivergent individuals, families, institutions, and workplaces. Her work sits at the intersection of cognitive diversity and the built environment, blending professional expertise with lived experience to inform inclusive design, teaching, and leadership practices.
Drawing from her own journey as a late-diagnosed neurodivergent adult and as the parent of neurodivergent children, Kelly brings both personal insight and professional rigor to her coaching and advocacy. She works closely with K–12 students, college learners, and adults, helping them navigate executive function challenges, transitions, and identity development. Through workshops, trainings, and speaking engagements, she equips teams and organizations with practical, evidence-based strategies to foster neuroinclusion, psychological safety, and authentic belonging.
Her work is grounded in the belief that all people—regardless of how their brains work—deserve to feel safe, seen, and valued in the spaces they live, learn, and work.
