New Deal for Neurodiversity

New Deal for Neurodiversity is run by Lizzie Somerfield, an autistic and ADHD neurodiversity trainer with a background in law who is a certified Diversity, Equity and Inclusion professional and a certified ADHD coach.

The practice works with employers, allies and neurodivergent individuals together, on the basis that workplace change needs buy-in from everyone involved rather than training aimed at one group alone. Services include tailored training programmes for managers and HR staff, personalised one-to-one coaching for neurodivergent individuals, and speaking engagements that draw on lived experience of being neurodivergent in the workplace.

Lizzie has designed and hosted group coaching programmes for New Deal for Neurodiversity and for third parties, including a partnership with Tiimo to design and host their first group coaching programme, and has organised free events during ADHD Awareness Month.

Her own diagnosis at 30 shaped the focus on practical change: safe, judgement-free spaces where people can choose whether to unmask, training that goes beyond a single presentation, and coaching grounded in her own experience of navigating a neurodivergent identity at work.