Susan Fitzell

Neurodiversity – Great Teams Think Differently

Nancy's Note:

“A highly skilled presenter and trainer, Susan’s body of work in the education and corporate world is astonishing. Her areas of expertise are expansive, and her fascinating presentations on utilizing neurodiversity strategies for maximum success are very insightful. She’s simply terrific.”

Susan Fitzell

Neurodiversity – Great Teams Think Differently

Nancy’s Note
“A highly skilled presenter and trainer, Susan’s body of work in the education and corporate world is astonishing. Her areas of expertise are expansive, and her fascinating presentations on utilizing neurodiversity strategies for maximum success are very insightful. She’s simply terrific.”

Susan Fitzell

Neurodiversity – Great Teams Think Differently

Nancy’s Note
“A highly skilled presenter and trainer, Susan’s body of work in the education and corporate world is astonishing. Her areas of expertise are expansive, and her fascinating presentations on utilizing neurodiversity strategies for maximum success are very insightful. She’s simply terrific.”

Expertise

Diversity/Neurodiversity, Mental Health, Business Growth, Retention, Unconscious Bias, Teamwork/Team Building, Education, Employees/Workforce

Travels From

Manchester, New Hampshire

Speaking Style

Dynamic, Actionable, Transformational

About Susan...

This longtime educator and trainer teaches how to access, maximize and retain an untapped talent pool through neurodiversity strategies.

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In this engaging, Interactive, presentation, Susan Fitzell reveals how teams may, more effectively, champion neurodiversity, equity and inclusion to increase innovation, productivity, and creativity.

This program is customized for your organization. I’ll survey and/or interview key decision makers, team members, and invested parties and ensure the keynote is relevant to your audience.

Neurodiversity done well reaps significant benefits. Neurodiversity done poorly may backfire and kill the initiative for the foreseeable future. Do it right the first time.

Format: 45 – 60-minute keynote OR breakout session

This program is perfect for:

 

  • Senior management
  • Teams struggling with cognitive diversity and collaboration
  • Managers of under-performing teams
  • Diversity Equity Inclusion professional interested in neurodiversity in the workplace

The audience will leave with:

  • An understanding of what neurodiversity is and why it benefits their team
  • Tools and strategies for working with neurodivergent employees to increase innovation, problem solving, and efficiency
  • How workplace accommodations for neurodivergent employees benefit everyone

This customized program can include additional objectives and take-aways. Susan’s expertise spans three decades. The focus is practical accommodations that are easy to implement and highly effective for everyone on the team.

Customized Sample for a Client in the Energy Sector:

“Neurodiversity: The Untapped Talent Pool That Fuels Your Success “

In this session you will:

  • Learn what neurodiversity looks like in the workplace and on-site
  • Understand the benefits of being a neurodiversity welcoming business in the energy sector.
  • Gain tools and strategies for tapping into the power of people

Neurodiversity: The Untapped Talent Pool That Fuels Your Success 

Do you wonder what the buzz about neurodiversity is and why it matters to your industry? Are you curious about the benefits of divergent thinking in the energy sector? Would you like tools and strategies for tapping into the power of your people? This session addresses these questions and more.

Whether you’re considering investing in an online or instructor-led learning program, or have already, Susan’s unique learning strategies can help the program content be received and retained by all.

Susan Fitzell shows business leaders how to:

  • Discover the brain secrets that are critical to employee learning.
  • Boost productivity sooner and increase profits and revenue.
  • Find solutions that support learning and performance for both emerging and experienced employees, leaders, and managers.

Format: Workshop, Full day training, Multi-day (Virtual) training delivered in one-hour sessions

In Susan’s Brain Power program, you will learn how to communicate critical information effectively and efficiently as well as coach your employees to:

  • Optimize their ability to process and recall critical information presented at meetings, during webinars, and other training sessions.
  • Use color-coding, categorization, association, and pairing to remember new rules, procedures, and regulations.
  • Maximize brainstorming sessions by effectively using meta-cognitive maps and strategies to quickly visualize information and promote big picture thinking and innovation without losing the details.
  • Use a variety of technology tools during meetings and trainings that enhance their ability to capture critical information as well as synthesize it in a format that is memorable, research-based, and effective.
  • Identify unconscious obstacles that are holding them back and implement solutions to overcome those obstacles.
  • Understand the difference between listening and learning.
  • Move information from short-term memory to working memory to long-term memory, and implementation, using strategies that accelerate the learning process and allow implementation that meets deadlines.
  • Ask critical questions in a timely manner.
  • Understand how anxiety and negative thinking reduces performance and what to do to overcome thought processes that decrease the ability to perform at maximum capacity.
  • Use scripts to reframe brain messages to be positive, creative, and success oriented.
  • Effective leadership, plus acceleration of the brain power in your business, equals more effective employees.

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