Thinking Differently: Leveraging Neurodiversity at Work

Hosted by Trystan Reese and Yoo-Jin Kang

Thu, Mar 26, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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What you'll learn

Recognize how neurodivergence shows up at work

Identify common ND communication and processing styles so you start reading talent, even when it's untraditional

Communicate more clearly with every neurotype

Apply direct, literal, and specific language practices that increase flow and clarity across your whole team

Build structure that supports cognitive diversity

Implement five proven practices, from clearer delegation to calendar norms, that help neurodivergent employees thrive

Why this topic matters

Up to 20% of your workforce is neurodivergent, and the teams that know how to recognize and harness neurodiversity consistently outperform those that don't. This session gives HR leaders and organizational managers concrete tools to unlock performance, strengthen retention, and build the kind of clear, structured culture where every employee can contribute their best.

You'll learn from

Trystan Reese

Neurodiversity coach, keynote speaker, and strategist

Trystan Reese is a certified Dare to Lead facilitator, published researcher, and professional trainer who was diagnosed with ADHD at 35. He has spent the years since building practical frameworks for neurodivergent professionals navigating workplaces that weren't designed for them. Trystan delivered a mainstage keynote on rejection sensitivity at Neurodiversion 2025, has coached dozens of neurodivergent professionals, and has trained hundreds of leaders who manage neurodiverse teams. He brings research, lived experience, and truly practical tools to this work, which many have called "groundbreaking" and "powerful."

Yoo-Jin Kang

Integrative leadership strategist and executive coach

Yoo-Jin Kang (she/her) is an integrative leadership strategist, facilitator, and executive coach who helps leaders and teams build leadership that is sustainable, grounded, and deeply human. She works with founders, executives, and organizational leaders who are navigating complexity, pressure, and rapid decision-making and want to lead with greater clarity, steadiness, and intention.

With more than a decade of experience across public health, equity work, organizational consulting, and leadership development, Yoo-Jin supports leaders when surface-level productivity strategies are no longer enough and when the real work involves shifting patterns, not just improving performance. Her approach focuses on the connection between nervous system regulation, decision-making, communication, and culture, helping leaders move from reactive survival mode into more strategic and sustainable leadership.

Yoo-Jin’s work is informed by her training in public health and integrative frameworks, which emphasize prevention, root-cause understanding, and whole-person leadership. Just as integrative medicine treats the whole person rather than isolated symptoms, her approach to leadership looks at how strategy, identity, nervous system state, power, and purpose interact. She blends evidence-based leadership development with trauma-informed practice, somatic awareness, and systems thinking to help leaders increase capacity, reduce reactivity, and lead more effectively under pressure.

She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and dual bachelor’s degrees in Sociolinguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her early career included work in public health, gender-based violence prevention, and community-based organizing, partnering closely with BIPOC communities and survivors to advance equity and access to care. Over the past 12+ years, her consulting and facilitation work has spanned philanthropy, nonprofits, higher education, and mission-driven organizations, where she has designed and led trainings, leadership programs, and organizational strategy sessions for teams across the country.

Through Yoo-Jin Kang Consulting, she partners with leadership teams and organizations to build cultures of care, accountability, and sustainability while still meeting ambitious goals. Her facilitation style is known for being both rigorous and deeply human: practical enough to apply immediately and reflective enough to create lasting change. She is particularly interested in helping leaders build the internal capacity required for clear thinking, sound decision-making, and healthier team dynamics in high-pressure environments.

Neurodiversity clients include...

Tillamook
Multnomah County
Dropbox
Cambridge Associates
Bonneville Power

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