Speaker
Amanda Kirby
Professor at the University of South Wales and founder and CEO of Do-IT Solutions.
Biography
Amanda is an emeritus professor at the University of South Wales, honorary professor at Cardiff University, and Visiting Professor at Trinity College Dublin. She is the founder and CEO of Do-IT Solutions, a globally recognised tech-for-good company specialising in neurodiversity screening and support tools for education and employment. With more than 35 years of clinical and research experience in neurodiversity, Amanda has authored 10 books and over 100 research papers. Her 2021 book, Neurodiversity at Work, won the EDI Business Book Award. She was the Chair of the ADHD Foundation and has worked closely with several other charities in this sector. She has been a contributor to developing global standards, such as the UK’s BSI’s Design for the Mind guidelines. She is currently writing her 11 th book on Neurodiversity and Parenting. Amanda is a LinkedIn Top Voice with 150,000+ followers and has a weekly subscriber based to her Neurodiversity 101 newsletter of 165,000+.
Her passion remains championing neurodivergent talent and creating inclusive workplaces as a parent, grandparent of neurodivergent family members as well as recognising herself as having neurodivergent traits.