Neuro-Inclusive Culture by Design
MELBOURNE
Why This Workshop?
Most Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) initiatives fail. They focus on surface-level 'awareness' while the organisational operating system remains hostile to difference. As a result, many leaders continue working inside systems that unintentionally exhaust and exclude their neurodivergent talent.
In the current climate, with critical skills shortages and new Psychosocial Hazard regulations (WorkSafe), relying on standard HR practices is no longer just ineffective - it is a liability. The way work is designed, performance is managed, and conversations are handled now directly impacts retention, risk, and performance.
This one-day intensive masterclass is not a 'Lunch and Learn.' It is a strategic intervention designed to audit your business, dismantle friction points, and equip your leaders with practical frameworks to manage high-potential, complex talent.
The Systemic Reset:
Operationalising Neurodiversity for Retention, Risk Mitigation, and High Performance
What You Will Learn (The ROI)
1. Mitigate Psychosocial Risk: Understand how everyday leadership behaviours, performance conversations, and work design can unintentionally create psychosocial risk, and how to adjust them to meet your organisation’s obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act and workplace mental health safety standards without adding complexity.
2. Stop the Attrition: Identify the "Exhaustion Funnel" - the hidden mechanism that burns out your most talented Neurodivergent staff - and learn how to dismantle it.
3. Kill the 'PIP' (Performance Improvement Plan): Learn why traditional Performance Improvement Plans often escalate anxiety and attrition for neurodivergent staff and replace high-conflict, high-risk PIPs with our proprietary Performance Development & Support (PDS) framework. Turn struggling staff into high performers through coaching, not condemnation.
4. Leadership Capability: Equip your leaders with the "Wobble Correction" scripts, the exact words to use when addressing performance gaps safely and effectively, supported by emotional intelligence skills that help leaders regulate their own responses and adapt their communication styles.
Agenda Snapshot
09:00: The Systemic Audit: Diagnosing the 'Operating System' flaws.
11:00: The Talent Pipeline: Redesigning recruitment beyond 'Culture Fit.'
13:30: Management Mechanics: Implementing PDS Plans & Safe Feedback.
15:30:Strategy & Roadmap: Creating a 5-Year Neuro-Inclusion Plan.
THE DUAL-LENS ADVANTAGE: This workshop bridges the gap between Lived Experience Authority and HR Change Strategy.
Brooke Trenwith | Director, Potential to Performance
Brooke specialises in Neurodivergence and Systemic Repair. Bridging the gap between executive strategy and lived reality, Brooke identifies as Autistic, Dyslexic, and Gifted. A former President of the NZ Association for Gifted Children, she is trusted by government bodies and corporate entities to translate theory into 'Monday Morning' reality.
Steph Sellar-Peam | HR & Change Management Specialist
Steph is a senior HR and change practitioner with over 15 years’ experience, specialising in emotionally intelligent leadership, inclusive culture, and sustainable organisational change. Holding an MBA and a Graduate Certificate in Change Management, and accredited in EQ-i 2.0 and Insights Discovery, she works at the intersection of people, systems, and performance, supporting leaders to move beyond policy into behaviours and systems that enable diverse talent to thrive.
THE DETAILS
Date: Wednesday 15 April 2026
Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm
Location: Pullman Melbourne City Centre Hotel
265 Little Bourke St,
Melbourne VIC 3000,
Australia
Investment:
Early Bird Price: $850+GST (available until 20 March)
Regular Price: $1050+GST
Stop fixing individuals. Start fixing the system.
Together, we can build organisations where neurodivergent employees thrive.
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