About Neurovation

Diverse teams are 87% more likely to make better decisions.

Inclusive teams are 75% more likely to see ideas become productized and experience higher revenue derived from innovation.

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Companies embracing neurodiversity experience a boost in productivity and creativity.

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Leaning Into Neuroinclusivity to Drive Growth and Innovation

Up to 20% of the global population is neurodivergent, including individuals with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other cognitive differences. In the workforce, that’s nearly 1 in 5 people.

Moving from performative inclusion of this demographic to true neuroinclusivity isn't just the right thing to do — it's also a smart business move that can lead to:

✅ Better decision-making
✅ More innovation

✅ Increased productization and growth
✅ Greater employee retention and engagement
✅ Stronger leadership and neuroinclusive resilience

Traditional ideas about inclusivity in the workplace leave neurodiverse people to fend for themselves and innovation on the table. Solving today’s complex problems requires thinking outside of the box.

At Neurovation, we help you do just that by increasing your organization's neuroinclusivity while providing programs that empower, support, and value your neurodiverse employees and future hires.

WHO WE IMPACT

Nearly half of neurodivergent people experience discrimination from hiring managers or recruiters.

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Over half report that people in their workplace behave in a way that excludes neurodivergent colleagues.

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77% of HR professionals have not had specific neurodiversity

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Redesigning Inclusion

Despite making commitments to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), most organizations overlook their neurodivergent workforce — and with this critical group, an untapped well of innovation, agility, and leadership potential.

Our neuroinclusive work is rooted in empathy and backed by research. At Neurovation, we’re founded by an autistic strategist with lived experience navigating corporate systems not designed with her in mind. Up to 91% of neurodivergent people mask their traits at work, often to avoid stigma or discrimination. And that's when they're even hired for roles, as nearly 30% of neurodivergent people are turned down for job opportunities due to subjective reasons, including communication style or team fit. Even leadership mask their neurodivergent traits at work — for instance, a high number of chief executives may be dyslexic, but they don't disclose their neurotype publicly or model inclusive behaviors to employees.

Yet this isn’t about charity or compliance. It’s about redesigning systems to work better for everyone. Neurodivergent individuals can often see patterns others miss, spot flaws in broken systems, and offer unconventional, transformative solutions that lead to innovation and company growth. But first, they need to be heard and provided with appropriate accommodations, a safe work environment, and advancement opportunities. This requires training — from the top down — to recognize when discrimination occurs and increase organizational neuroinclusivity.

We help organizations move from performative DEI to purpose in action. Further, we help develop neuroinclusive, agile systems and implement new, strategic ways of ideating and executing projects that increase productivity and drive innovation and company growth.

OUR PROCESS

Our Process

Assessment & Strategy

Your neuroinclusion roadmap

Workshops & Trainings

Research-based sessions

Coaching & Implementation

Sustainable, ongoing outcomes

We Train Teams and Leaders to Lead Differently

We empower organizations to support neurodivergent talent, expand cognitive agility among leaders, and build high-performing, inclusive teams. Here’s how:

✅ Assessment + Strategy: We start with discovery — understanding your current culture, challenges, and goals. Then we co-design a neuroinclusion roadmap tailored to your business.

✅ Workshops + Training: Using research-based frameworks and lived-experience insights, we deliver powerful sessions for executives, managers, and teams — all designed to shift mindsets and build practical skills.

✅ Coaching + Implementation: We don’t drop a report and walk away. We work alongside your leadership, HR, management, product, and other teams to help embed accommodations, update policies, and sustain momentum.

Our approach is bold, compassionate, and transformative. And it works — neuroinclusion in the workplace shows demonstrable benefits for innovation — if it’s done well.

Training Series

NEUROVATION TRAINING SERIES

We Train Teams and Leaders to Lead Differently

The Neurovation Training Series equips organizations to harness the power of diverse minds for greater innovation, resilience, and growth. Across four interactive workshops — ranging from foundational understanding to leadership strategy and product pipeline transformation — teams learn how to create a neuroinclusive culture. Participants gain practical tools to improve communication, break down systemic barriers, and increase the number of how many great ideas move from concept to launch. Designed for every level of your organization, this series fosters environments where all minds can thrive — and where inclusion drives measurable business results. (This is our foundational offering. Subsequent series and ongoing coaching and assessment may be advised.)

Neuroinclusivity 101: Build a shared understanding of neurodiversity, dispel myths, and learn everyday actions that make the workplace more inclusive for all neurotypes.

Neurodiversity to Drive Innovation and Growth: Equip leaders with evidence-based methods that boost out-of-the-box creativity and strategic thinking while recognizing, modeling, and building systemic neuroinclusivity that drives innovation and growth.

How to Create a Neuroinclusive Culture: Learn how to remove structural barriers, embed inclusion into policies, processes, and culture, and tap into a neurodiverse workforce to build a stronger, kinder, more resilient company.

Fix Your Product (and Project) Pipeline: Use neurodivergent-informed workflows to move ideas from ideation to successful launch.

Our Founder

OUR FOUNDER

"Giving neurodivergent people the accommodations they need isn't charity—it's an evidence-backed method used to drive exciting innovation."

—Melissa Banigan

Melissa Banigan is the proudly autistic senior communications and creative services founder of HiveMind Communications, an agency with 20 years of experience partnering with global household brands across the U.S. and the U.K. The agency has also worked with startups and nonprofits across North and South America to develop their brand voice while driving innovation and growth.

Additionally, Melissa is a multimedia journalist whose work appears in The Washington Post, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and The Independent, among many other publications. An expert in building thought leaders, she collaborates with executives on articles that appear in publications such as Scientific American, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Entrepreneur, Forbes, and Information Week. She helps companies engage in policy conversations on Capitol Hill by crafting narratives for speeches and placing work in publications like The Hill.

Before founding HiveMind, Melissa worked in client services and marketing at a fund of hedge funds and a fintech, helped drive storytelling at Nanobiotix, a late-stage clinical biotechnology company, and directed content strategy at Ethic, a personalized investing technology provider. She's developed curriculum for Scholastic, Inc. and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, among other companies, and created and led leadership summits and programs for youth and women across four continents.

Melissa has experienced discrimination due to her autism in the workplace and seen untapped opportunities for innovation and growth due to a lack of neuroinclusion in the workplace. Knowing that the workplace can become a better place if neuroinclusion becomes a cornerstone of DEI programs and leadership training, she founded Neurovation.