What This Is Really About:

This initiative is about creating more supportive environments for neurodivergent professionals and helping the people around them understand how to collaborate, communicate, and thrive together.

Supporting neurodivergent professionals means educating everyone - peers, managers, and clients - on how ADHD shows up, how to respond with empathy, and how to focus on strengths over symptoms.

Neuroinclusion works when the whole team understands how to work better together, not just when the individual is expected to adapt alone.

Why It Matters:

Many professionals with ADHD bring powerful traits to the table. Speed, focus, creativity, pattern recognition, and persistence. These can be incredible assets when embraced, or misunderstood liabilities when they are not.

I have seen both. I have worked with and led teams where people struggled to interpret a colleague’s tone or communication style, missing the immense value they brought. I have also seen those same individuals thrive in the right environment. One built on awareness, flexibility, and trust.

This is not just about inclusion for inclusion’s sake. It is about real performance, stronger teams, and a better way to work together.

A Note from the Founder:

Mind at Work was born from lived experience - both personally and professionally. After years of working with high-performing individuals who have ADHD (and recognizing some traits in myself), I began to see what often goes unnoticed: the incredible strengths that come with different ways of thinking.

These professionals are fast-moving, driven, direct, and solution-oriented. But in many workplaces, they’re misunderstood, seen for their tone, not their tenacity. Critiqued for their urgency, not their results. And when that happens, everyone misses out on what they truly bring to the table.

It’s easy to make assumptions about someone who operates differently, especially when they’re succeeding in ways that feel unconventional. But what if that “unusualness” is exactly what makes them great? What if, instead of judging the differences, we leaned into understanding them? When we appreciate people for what they bring, not despite how they work but because of it, we build stronger, more human teams.

Our Goals:

This is a long-term, relationship-driven initiative. Here's what we're focused on:

• Create more understanding around ADHD in the workplace

• Empower high-performing professionals, both leaders and staff, to own their strengths

• Shifting the focus from deficits to strengths, promoting communication, flexibility, and mutual understanding across teams

• Model neuroinclusive hiring and support internally before we scale outward.

Where we're headed:

Right now, we’re focused on education and internal awareness, building a culture inside Hyland Company that understands neurodiversity and knows how to support it.

In the next phase, we’ll begin sharing resources, offering training, and partnering with clients who want to create more inclusive, performance-driven teams.

This is not a side mission. It’s a leadership priority, and it’s embedded in how we serve, hire, and grow.

Get Involved

Want to learn more about Mind at Work or interested in supporting your team as well? We want to hear from you.