Meeting/Event Information

This is a virtual event. 

In a market where talent is at a premium and diversity is valued, there is an untapped pool of talented individuals – the neurodivergent. Where do you find these individuals? How do you engage them and integrate this new diversity dimension into your organization’s culture? Tangible best practices, compelling resources and examples of success stories. The challenge, of course, is understanding neurodivergence and how the diverse employee brings value to your organization without adding more compliance to your plate. In this session, learn from two mothers — and experienced professionals in their own fields of non-profit and Human Resources— how you can attract, engage and retain qualified neurodivergent employees, as well as the benefits of the addition to the team. 

During this meeting, the speakers will help us:

• Understand the difference between "neurodiverse" and "neurodivergent", and how to best interact with and engage neurodivergent talent.
• Learn how to improve your diverse culture with limited addition to your compliance tasks.
• Learn best practices and access resources to put into action immediately for attraction, retention & engagement.

More about the Speakers: 

Denise Schamens is the Executive Director and Co-founder of the nonprofit organization Good Friend, Inc (Waukesha County, WI, www.goodfriendinc.org) which is devoted to autism awareness, acceptance, and empathy. Her inspiration comes from her three young adult children, whose journey has taught more than 65,000 people how to better understand autistic neurology.

Shelly Dretzka is the mother of two young men, one a neurotypical college junior and the other a neurodivergent HR Admin/Recruiter on the aHRrow team. With her decades of HR experience, she founded aHRrow Consulting in the middle of the COVID pandemic. Her style is personal, approach is upbeat, and objective is always the same—to be an HR business partner who is a seamless extension of her client’s team.