Neuroinclusion By Design™

We don't do
awareness.
We do design.

Neuro-D. is a specialist neuroinclusion consultancy built on a single, evidence-based belief: sustainable inclusion is a design challenge, not a training problem. We work with organisations to build workplaces where every kind of brain belongs not in principle, but in practice.

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20+years senior HR
Accreditedneuroinclusive employer standard
CPDaccredited programmes

The design gap defined

"Awareness lives in people's heads. Design lives in the organisation."

  • Diagnose where design is failing
  • Build frameworks that embed inclusion
  • Equip your people to sustain it
  • Measure what actually matters
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New

Design Gap Model™ Practitioner Certification now open for applications

Founded by Sarah Tancell FCIPD
Triple neurodivergent leadership team
Certified neurodiversity coach
Specialist trained in neuroinclusion
CPD accredited courses
Award-winning consultancy
Disability Confident employer
Design Gap Model™ licensed practitioners across the UK

Our methodology

The Neuroinclusion
Design Model

Most neuroinclusion approaches sit at the surface. The Design Gap Model™ goes deeper a structured, evidence-based framework developed from over 20 years of senior HR practice, specialist training and study in neuroinclusion, certified neurodiversity coaching, and the lived experience of being triple neurodivergent.

The Design Gap Model™ is the foundation for everything Neuro-D. does from our organisational consultancy to our practitioner certification. It is what makes our work replicable, measurable, and built to last.

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01
Diagnose

Map where your current design creates friction across recruitment, management, culture, environment and systems.

02
Design

Build evidence-based solutions that address root causes not surface symptoms. Structural change, not adjustment.

03
Embed

Equip your people leaders, managers, HR teams with the capability and confidence to make neuroinclusion an everyday practice.

04
Sustain

Measure what matters. Track psychological safety, disclosure, retention and build feedback loops that keep the design improving.

Design Gap Model™ Practitioner Certification

Become a licensed Neuroinclusion Design practitioner. Our certification programme equips HR professionals, coaches and consultants to deliver the Design Gap Model™ within their own organisations and client work under licence from Neuro-D.

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For organisations & individuals

Where do you need us?

Every engagement is built on the Design Gap Model™. We meet you where you are whether that's starting from scratch or accelerating a programme already underway.

Most popular
Neuroinclusion Strategy

A structured, Design Gap Model™-led engagement to build your organisation's neuroinclusion roadmap from audit to implementation plan.

Training & Workshops

CPD accredited, skills-based sessions for HR, managers and leaders designed to build capability, not just awareness.

Leadership Coaching

Equip your leaders to lead neuroinclusively with the confidence, language and tools to build psychologically safe teams.

Consultancy & Design

Hands-on support to audit, redesign and embed neuroinclusive practices across your people processes and systems.

Neuro-D. Hub

On-demand tools, templates and frameworks for HR and DEI teams everything you need, right when you need it.

eLearning

Scalable, CPD accredited neuroinclusion learning your whole workforce can access at their own pace, any time.

1:1 Coaching

Personalised, strengths-based coaching for neurodivergent professionals to help you thrive at work without burning out or masking.

Post-Diagnosis Programme

Make sense of your diagnosis, understand your neurotype, and build practical strategies for work and life at your own pace.

Practitioner certification

Train. Design. Accredit.

Two certification pathways for practitioners who want to deliver Neuro-D. IP and an accreditation standard for organisations who have done the work. All programmes are CPD accredited.

Tier 1

Neurodiversity Practitioner Course™

Become licensed to deliver Neuro-D. neurodiversity in the workplace training programmes covering awareness, manager, leadership and champions training. Designed for HR professionals, L&D specialists, coaches and neurodiversity advocates.

The exact programmes we deliver to organisations now available for you to deliver too.

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Awareness training Manager training Leadership training Champions training
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Tier 2

Design Gap Practitioner™

Become licensed to deliver the full Design Gap Model™ working with organisations across the entire employee lifecycle to embed neuroinclusion by design. For consultants, OD specialists and senior HR professionals.

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The Design Gap Model™ Employee lifecycle Organisational design Diagnostic tools
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Coming soon

Neuroinclusion By Design™ Employer Accreditation

The standard for organisations who have embedded neuroinclusion across their entire employee lifecycle using the Design Gap Model™. Not just awareness trained. Not just Disability Confident. Designed end to end.

For organisations who have

Completed the Design Gap Model™ Full lifecycle audit Embedded by design
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Digital products

Expert knowledge. On your terms.

Our digital products bring the Design Gap Model™ to you self-paced, scalable, and built on the same evidence base as our consultancy work.

Available now
Neuroinclusion Awareness eLearning

A practical, evidence-based foundation course for HR teams, managers and leaders. Translates awareness into capability.

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Available now
Post-Diagnosis Self-Paced Course

From diagnosis to clarity a structured programme helping neurodivergent adults understand their neurotype and build practical strategies.

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The Design Gap Model™ Toolkit

The complete The Design Gap Model™ in a practical digital toolkit frameworks, templates and tools for HR and DEI teams.

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The thinking behind Neuro-D.

"I built Neuro-D. because there was very little practical guidance on how to design workplaces differently. Medical understanding existed. Operational insight did not."

Sarah Tancell FCIPD is the founder and Chief Architect of Neuro-D. She developed the Design Gap Model™ from over two decades of senior HR practice, formal training and study in neuroinclusion in the workplace, and a lifetime of navigating organisations as an autistic, ADHD, and dyslexic professional. She is also a certified neurodiversity coach.

Sarah leads our strategic thinking and develops all Neuro-D. IP. Her work draws on her FCIPD qualification, her certification as a neurodiversity coach, her specialist study in neuroinclusion in the workplace, and her lived experience as a triple neurodivergent professional navigating organisations for over two decades. Our team of associate consultants and Design Gap Practitioner™ certified practitioners bring those frameworks to life across organisations throughout the UK and beyond.

AutisticADHDDyslexic FCIPD20+ yrs HR Certified ND CoachNeuroinclusion specialistAward-winning
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Sarah Tancell, Founder of Neuro-D.

What people say

The impact in their words

"

The Design Gap Model™ gave us a structured way to have conversations we had been avoiding. We finally had a shared language for what was going wrong and what good could look like.

Gemma Warne
Co-Founder, Agent Marketer
"

Neuro-D. helped us rethink everything. We now communicate in a way that is clearer, more inclusive, and genuinely engaging. Engagement from staff increased tenfold.

Chris Jones
Partner, Wave Staffing
"

Your story resonated with me deeply. Thank you for all that you are doing to help make the workplace and world a little more inclusive and welcoming.

Paul Whitman
Head of P&O, Mars

Verified client testimonials

Thinking & insights

What we're writing about

Flagship article

Why neurodiversity awareness isn't enough: the design gap your organisation is missing

Awareness lives in people's heads. Design lives in the organisation. Here's the distinction that changes everything.

Hot take

Reasonable adjustments aren't failing because managers are unkind

The adjustment is not the solution. It's the evidence that the design was wrong.

Perspective

The neurodiversity conversation has a problem it isn't talking about loudly enough

Who gets believed. Race, gender, class and the psychological safety gap your data is already showing you.

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Ready to move from
awareness into design?

Whether you're an organisation looking to embed neuroinclusion, a practitioner interested in certification, or an individual looking for support we'd love to talk.

Organisations
Book a strategy call
Free 30-min call with our team
Practitioners
Design Gap Model™ Certification
Become a licensed Neuro-D. practitioner
Individuals
Digital products
Self-paced learning and support

Or email us at hello@neurodconsultancy.com