Dr. Portia Jackson Preston

Each talk I create is customized to the needs of the organization, drawing on my lived experience navigating chronic illness, autism and ADHD across academia, nonprofits, government, consulting, and corporate environments. The aim is to provide pathways to wellness that honors the lived experience of the individual and helps to forge and organizational culture of collective care.

Key elements include:

• Acknowledgement that chronic stress extends beyond workplace burnout, occuring across one's lived context with implications for how they show up in the workplace.
• Understanding neurodiversity without complex jargon, honoring the unique ways people think, learn, and process information
• Intersectional lens: understanding how identity, social expectations, and the need to mask for survival shape experiences
• Recognizing the fullest and most sustainable expression of one's gifts requires acknowledgement, acceptance, and resources to address their support needs
• How workplace demands (meetings, multitasking, rigid schedules) create specific stressors for neurodivergent professionals
• Practical tools, strategies, and resources to stabilize your foundation to create impact and support one another
• Managing up, laterally, and down effectively; forging psychological safety
• Practical strategies for managers: clear communication, explicit expectations, nuanced approach to flexibility and structure
• Creating systems and cultures where neurodivergent individuals can thrive