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Global Ivey Day 2024: Reimagining Talent with a Neurodiversity Lens
May 9, 2024
11:00 AM
- 12:00 PM 
- Online Live Stream
In this livestream for Global Ivey Day 2024, our panel of industry experts will explore the barriers limiting the inclusion of neurodistinct individuals in the workforce, unpack misconceptions about the correlation between support needs and skill levels, and discuss how leaders can reimagine job roles and structures to create more inclusive and productive organizations.
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Complimentary event.
In this session:
It’s been twenty years since Specialisterne, a Danish social enterprise, created the first Neurodiversity Hiring programs, and it’s been about a decade since the first multinational companies for example, SAP and Microsoft, launched programs. Since then, an increasing number of organizations have taken up initiatives that aim to increase neuro-inclusion at work.
In this livestream developed in partnership with the Neurodiversity Employment Research Project at Ivey Business School, we will explore the barriers that remain to limit the inclusion of neurodistinct individuals in the workforce. We’ll unpack misconceptions about the correlation between support needs and skill levels. Further, our panelists will discuss how what we’re learning from neurodiversity employment may lead us to dismantle traditional notions about what “work” should look (and be) like and how leaders can reimagine job roles and structures to create more inclusive and productive organizations.
For this Global Ivey Day 2024 event, we’re joined by expert guests: Rob Austin, Professor of Innovation & Information Systems and Evolution of Work Chair, Ivey Business School; Denise Arnold, Founding Principal, Denise R. Arnold LLC and PhD Candidate, Disability Studies, University of Illinois Chicago; Thorkil Sonne, Founder, Square Foundation (formerly the Specialisterne Foundation); and Moish Tov, CEO, JoyDew. During this discussion hosted by Bryan Benjamin, Executive Director of the Ivey Academy, our panelists will examine the successes and limitations of early neurodiversity employment programming and propose how leaders can intentionally forge the future of neuroinclusion at work.
Guests
Denise Arnold
Founding Principal, Denise R. Arnold LLC; PhD Candidate, Disability Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Denise Arnold is an architect and urban designer with expertise in accessibility codes and laws, and Universal Design. As the founding principal of Denise R. Arnold LLC, she has been invited to apply notions of inclusion onto large scale urban design master plans for the rejuvenation and redevelopment of our train stations, airports, market rate and public housing. On a more intimate level, Denise works closely with owners designing and constructing private residences, corporate headquarters, schools and restaurants to be usably beautiful. Her work was recognized with a lifetime Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
Earlier in her career as the Program Director of the City of Chicago’s Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities’ Architectural Services Unit, Denise spearheaded three nationally recognized design competitions funded by the National Endowment for the Arts aimed at fostering equitable design and development for disabled Chicagoans. She crafted accessibility code language and shepherded Chapter 18-11, Accessibility, through the legislative process, making her a vital team member to developers seeking accessibility code expertise today.
Moish Tov
CEO, JoyDew
Moish Tov is a seasoned CEO, entrepreneur, and dynamic leader with extensive start-up, life science, and technology experience. Moish founded and led rapid-growth start-up companies, eventually leading them to management-led leveraged buyouts through attractive disruptive innovation strategies.
Moish also has a profound and personal understanding of autism as the father of two young men on the spectrum. He is now applying his experience to the field of autism by founding JoyDew, a social enterprise dedicated to recognizing and untapping autism “superpowers” for high-level employment, reducing healthcare inequity, and providing social community and, eventually, housing for people with autism.
Thorkil Sonne
Founder & Chairman, The Square Foundation
Thorkil Sonne became a social entrepreneur after his youngest son was diagnosed as autistic at the age of three. He founded Specialisterne Denmark in 2004 and Square Foundation (formerly the Specialisterne Foundation) in 2008 to solve the social challenge of lack of inclusion of autistic/neurodistinct persons.
Thorkil is working with Ashoka and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship to promote neurodiversity in minds and systems. The vision is a world where people are given equal opportunities in the labour market and community.
Thorkil Sonne is founder and chairman of Square Foundation, an NGO associated with the UN Department of Global Communications. He is a World Economic Forum Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur and an Ashoka Globalizer Fellow. Thorkil has contributed to a number of books and articles, such as Harvard Business Review's "The Case for Hiring Outlier Employees" and “The Dandelion Principle: Redesigning Work for the Innovation Economy."
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