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Join two ND coaches with library leadership experience for a candid exploration of leading while neurodivergent. We’ll examine how self and late diagnosis can affect identity, confidence, and communication; unpack the hidden cost of masking and its impact on leadership presence; explore the stigma and risk of disclosure; and consider how traditional leadership norms often exclude ND ways of being.
Together, we’ll identify practical, adaptive strategies for reshaping leadership approaches to support neuroinclusion, clearer boundaries, and more sustainable success. These include strategies for neurodivergent leaders AND for neurotypical colleagues who want to build a neuroinclusive culture in your organization. You’ll leave with a starter toolkit to support leadership that reduces personal harm while increasing effectiveness and belonging. Leadership that works for ND people creates healthier systems for everyone.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain some of the challenges neurodivergent leaders navigate.
- Examine the hidden costs of navigating these challenges.
- Apply practical strategies to build more neuroinclusive work cultures.
Speakers
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Annie Bélanger is a leadership coach, organizational consultant, and faculty member with more than two decades of leadership experience in academic, public, research, and special libraries. Being neurodivergent herself, she brings together lived experience, leadership practice, and coaching to help individuals and organizations create more inclusive, sustainable ways of working and leading. She is the founder of Kind Shift Coaching and Kind Shift Solutions. She is a Certified Hudson Coach and ICF Associate Certified Coach.
Angela Pashia spent a dozen years as an academic librarian focusing on teaching critical information literacy, working against structural oppression within libraries, and growing as a collaborative leader. Now, Angela helps library leaders confidently manage change and conflict as an ICF-certified (ACC) leadership coach. Angela also teaches Lead With Curiosity: Coaching skills for library leaders, adapting professional coaching skills to the complex practicalities of managing a team. This approach centers actively listening to employees, building psychological safety, remaining aware of structural power dynamics, and developing a trauma-informed approach. Angela brings personal experience of leading while neurodivergent to this presentation.