Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2024
Thu, 21 Mar
|Gerald Eve
Join us to listen to the incredible Marcia Brissett-Bailey, one of the Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women in 2022. She joins us to talk about her lived experience and what we can do better to support ND people in the workplace.
Time & Location
21 Mar 2024, 17:30 – 19:30
Gerald Eve, One Fitzroy, 6 Mortimer St, London, W1T 3JJ
Guests
About the event
Join us for some lived experience from Marcia Brissett-Bailey and some frank fireside chat on what holds ND women back, what influences experiences of job application and interview processes and what we can do better as an industry to support our Neurodiverse talent.
Marcia Brissett-Bailey was named one of the Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women in 2022. Marcia is a thought leader, Forbes featured, international speaker, and author of Black, Brilliant, and Dyslexic. She’s also a trustee of the British Dyslexia Association.
She was named one of the top 133 women who changed the world in 2023 by Diverse In – the Global Diversity and Inclusion Embassy. Marcia is also featured as a notable dyslexic by Dyslexia Help - The Regents University of Michigan.
Marcia holds a BSc (Hons) in Information Science, Librarian status, a postgraduate qualification in Career Guidance, a Certificate in person-centred Counselling Skills, a diploma in Specialist Teaching, and an MA in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. With three decades of experience, she has contributed to the education community sector and inclusive practice in the workplace, specialising in higher education and post-16 and serving as a SEND lead.