Jess Meredith

CEO of Differing Minds | Keynote Speaker

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JESS MEREDITH SPEAKING VIDEOS

Neurodiversity Speaker - Creating impact and driving change

Moving beyond Labels 2024

Exploring neurodiversity VMO2

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Jess Meredith 2024 Speech Titles

Exploring fairness through a neurodiversity lens
Dispelling myths and stereotypes of ADHD through my personal journey
Creating expert teams, not expert individuals
Thriving with ADHD as an expert generalist
Unlocking and understanding sensory processing
Breaking down barriers or unfair advantage? Delving into the difference between needs and wants.
Exploring and embracing our different perspectives through the power of optical illusions

Jess Meredith's Biography

Jess Meredith is a renowned and dynamic neurodiversity speaker, known for her unique perspectives that captivate and inspire audiences, and ignite transformative conversations. She is also a leading advocate for neuroinclusion, sought-after facilitator and social entrepreneur; championing social justice, with a particular interest in inclusion.

Jess founded Differing Minds CIC through sheer frustration of the mainstream narrative around neurodiversity. She felt compelled to share what she was learning as she navigated the complexity of parenting children in the neurominority and successfully reframed her own thinking. She shares an enlightening, neuroaffirmative approach and specialises in simplifying complexity through interactivity and storytelling. Through her work with Differing Minds, she is celebrated for pioneering neuroinclusion strategies in workplaces, schools and within families, and trusted by the likes of Accenture, Freshfields, The Adecco Group and the NHS.

Fuelled by her passion to teach all children about neurodiversity, Jess is the creator of groundbreaking neurodiversity lessons for schools, endorsed by Peter Kyle MP. These lessons transform how neurodivergent children embrace their identities and how their peers understand and support them. They are truly game changing for schools, teachers, pupils and most importantly, the future of our society. Whilst advising parliament - Matt Hancock MP - on the proposed Neurodiversity Screening Bill, Jess emphasised the need to teach children about neurodiversity for true neuroinclusion and neurodivergent empowerment, which was widely agreed.

Prior to neuroinclusion advocacy, Jess’ career spanned data, marketing, consulting, technology and more, from start ups to global corporations. Alongside generating new revenue streams and running multi-million dollar cost saving initiatives, Jess always found time for inclusion projects. Driven by her longstanding interest in embracing difference, she mobilised and accelerated inclusion networks and teams in every organisation she worked in.

Jess is a parent carer to neurodiverse children and an adult-identified neurodivergent herself, committed to raising a family with a neuroaffirmative approach. Jess lives with stress, depression and PTSD, and feels passionately about improving society’s understanding of the link between neurodivergence and mental health.

Jess is a nominee of a National Diversity Award for Positive Role Model for Disability and is wholeheartedly driven by her mission to make everyone, and everywhere, neuroinclusive.

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Jess Meredith testimonials

Simon Dumont

Content at Oliva

We had Jess visit us at Freshfields on 21 March 2024 (during Neurodiversity Celebration Week) to give a presentation on neurodiversity and intersectionality entitled "Moving Beyond Labels",. It was a brilliant experience in every respect, from speaking to Jess beforehand to discuss what she planned to cover to meeting her on the day and her being willing to chat to attendees right up to the beginning of the session, to her delivery of an excellent and informative presentation, to her handling of some challenging questions (and calmly navigating an unscheduled power-cut!) at the end. She is as personable and passionate and she is knowledgeable of the subject, mindful of deploying inclusive language whilst remaining accessible to a lay audience, and humble as to the limitations of her own lived perspective. Her ability to steer a balance between theory, data and lived experience / illustrative anecdotes - with a measure of interactivity thrown in - meant the audience online and in the room remain engaged throughout, as reflected in some of the unsolicited feedback we received that I have pasted below. I hope we'll get the chance to work with Jess again in the near future. James Smither, Global Head of Risk Management at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer —- Jess was the special guest for our Neurodiversity Celebration Week virtual event. Honestly it couldn't have gone better—whole process leading up to the event was really smooth, Jess is a very experienced speaker so brought an aura of calmness to the whole thing. On the day, she smashed it. Packed loads of deep knowledge and actionable insights on how managers can facilitate neurodiversity to thrive in their teams into 45 mins. My advice: book Jess quick because she's in high demand. And with good reason!

Lucy Judge

Marketing and Events at CareScribe

One of the best talks I've seen about Neurodiversity and Mental Health" ^ Just one of the glowing feedback comments we received after Jess's talk. A colleague highly recommended Jess as a speaker on neurodiversity, - and I'm so pleased we were introduced! Jess is a joy to work with. She's a clear, personable and engaging speaker with a rare mix of depth of knowledge, passion and sensitivity.

Katie Braham

Consultant, OC&C

I would highly recommend Jess and Differing Minds. Jess worked with us during Neurodiversity Celebration Week delivering an educational talk and Q&A across our global offices. We had amazing feedback across the firm on how engaging Jess was, and how insightful people found the content. The talk has been impactful in changing the way people think about Neurodiversity at OC&C and given them the understanding to better support Neurodivergent colleagues.