Autism Awareness Training for the Workplace
Understand autism. Remove barriers. Build workplaces where everyone belongs.
Help your teams understand autism in a work context, covering traits, challenges, and inclusive strategies that create safer, more supportive environments for autistic colleagues.
Autistic colleagues are often overlooked because their strengths and challenges don’t fit traditional workplace expectations.
Autism brings huge value to teams, including creativity, focus, honesty, and problem-solving, but workplaces often run on systems and communication styles that make thriving harder than it should be.
This training helps your team move beyond stereotypes, recognise barriers, and create a workplace where autistic colleagues can do their best work and thrive.
This Is For Teams Who Want To:
Understand autism without myths or clichés
Communicate more effectively with autistic colleagues
Recognise sensory and social barriers in the workplace
Offer adjustments that make work accessible without making it awkward
Build a culture of respect, inclusion, and psychological safety
What You’ll Learn:
Practical knowledge about autism in the workplace, delivered with honesty and lived experience.
1. What Autism Really Means
Cutting through stereotypes and media myths
Understanding traits, differences, and diversity within autism
Why “high-functioning” vs. “low-functioning” is misleading and harmful
2. Everyday Workplace Barriers
How environments, language, and expectations impact autistic colleagues
Sensory challenges most workplaces miss
The hidden impact of masking and burnout
3. Communication That Works
Adapting how you give instructions, feedback, and support
Avoiding misunderstandings and microaggressions
Practical tips to build clearer, more respectful communication
4. Adjustments That Make a Difference
Reasonable accommodations that actually work in practice
Hybrid, remote, and on-site considerations
Supporting autistic people in fixed roles, flexible roles, and team-based work
5. Creating a Neuroinclusive Culture
Why neuroinclusion isn’t about lowering standards, it’s about removing barriers
The role of colleagues and managers in everyday inclusion
How awareness translates into trust, retention, and performance
Learning Outcomes
A clear understanding of autism in your workplace
Practical ways to remove barriers and support autistic colleagues
Confidence in communication and workplace adjustments
A stronger, more neuroinclusive workplace culture
Session Logistics
Duration: 60 minutes (including Q&A)
Delivery: Virtual (your platform or ours) or in-person talk or workshop
Tailored: Custom delivery available for specific teams or whole organisations
Extend learning through audits, assessments, and tailored toolkits.
Complement autism training with neuroinclusive workplace assessments, neuroinclusion audits, and custom toolkits, ensuring learning is embedded into daily practice.
Looking for more training options?
Understanding autism in the workplace is a powerful start. Check out our full training menu for more sessions that open doors for every type of thinker.
Ready to make your workplace more inclusive for autistic colleagues?
We don’t do surface-level awareness. We bring lived autistic experience, workplace insight, and practical tools that make a real difference.
Every session is open, honest, and focused on what actually works.
Let’s explore together.
Start with a conversation. Grow with intention.
