With neurodiversity talked about more today than ever before, many employees are diagnosing, not only themselves, but their family members too. This, coupled with the long NHS waiting lists for formal diagnoses, means employees are increasingly looking to employers to bridge the gap in healthcare provision.
But what should employers do? And is it reasonable to cover employees’ family members too?
In our latest episode of the MAD Leaders Podcast, Health & Wellbeing Lead at BNP Paribas, Lauren Lunniss (pictured), is candid that it was a complete “wake up call” to see the results of a survey reflecting just how many of her employees identified as neurodivergent (you’ll have to listen to the episode to hear the percentage!).
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Lauren talks us through what she did in response to huge demand, the challenges involved and the importance of creating a psychologically safe culture so people feel they can disclose. She reveals pretty impressive numbers regarding results (again, you’ll have to listen for these – and to find out how she has managed to link uptake of services to productivity).
True to the podcast format, Lauren also answers the trademark ‘Alien’ question at the end of the podcast too.
For more on this subject, tune in TODAY to our webinar on ‘Unlocking Potential: Embracing Neuroinclusion’ with Rio Tinto’s Dan Curtis, Acas’s Julie Dennis and Matchware’s Matthew Jones. You can register here. (If you register, you can receive the recording afterwards, too).
Time line of conversation with BNP Paribas’s Lauren Lunniss about neurodiversity:
00:00 Introduction to the Leaders Podcast
00:35 This Week’s Challenge: Addressing Neurodiversity
01:19 Expert Insight: Lauren’s Experience
01:28 The Growing Awareness of Neurodiversity
01:48 Developing an Inclusive Program
04:11 Survey Insights and Initial Steps
07:18 Collaborating with Healthcare Providers
08:55 Creating a Comprehensive Support Pathway
09:47 The Importance of Follow-Up Care
13:58 Measuring Impact and Success
18:36 Building a Supportive Community
23:43 Final Thoughts and Future Plans
25:29 The Alien Question: Making the Case for Wellbeing
27:34 Conclusion and Call to Action
The MAD Leaders Club covers the hot topics in workplace culture, employee health and wellbeing with episodes so far on balancing profits and people, managing the multigenerational workforce and lack of engagement in wellbeing. Every episode takes a problem which is then worked through to resolution with an employer who has genuinely faced this themselves and so can talk honestly about what worked (and what didn’t). Check it out here on Apple and here on Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts.
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