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)
Free to join
Thu, Mar 26, 2026
4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
What you'll learn
Recognize how neurodivergence shows up at work
Communicate more clearly with every neurotype
Build structure that supports cognitive diversity
Why this topic matters
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...
