Keynote
30–60 minutes. Event-opening or closing plenary. Shifts the narrative for the day.
Keynotes · Panels · Leadership
Speakers who change the conversation, not just the slides.
Rich and Charlie Ferriman speak at HR conferences, leadership summits and internal events across the UK and internationally. Lived experience, commercial framing, and a point of view audiences remember.
Formats
How Rich and Charlie speak.
Brief is always tailored to your audience. Format sets the shape.
Panel or fireside
Rich or Charlie on your panel, or moderating. Lived-experience voice alongside legal and HR perspectives.
Leadership session
Closed-door briefing for exec teams. Board-level framing of neurodiversity as a retention and performance issue.
Internal all-hands
Company-wide talks for staff networks, ERG launches, and neurodiversity celebration weeks.
Topics
Talks that land beyond the event.
These are the angles we are asked for most often. Every brief is tailored — nobody books the same talk twice.
- The commercial case for neuroinclusion — retention, disclosure and tribunal risk in plain numbers.
- Ask Away with Rich Ferriman — unscripted live Q&A: audiences can ask anything about neurodiversity at work.
- Gen Z and neurodiversity — the generational shift every employer is about to meet.
- Why awareness training fails and what works instead.
- Disclosure, masking and the cost of silence in your workforce.
- Workplace adjustments that actually move the numbers.
- Neurodiversity, AI and the future of work.
Audiences
Where we speak.
HR and People conferences
Leadership summits and exec off-sites
Neurodiversity Celebration Week events
ERG and staff-network launches
Professional body CPD sessions
University and student union events
Typical outcomes
- Audience leaves with a shared frame managers actually use.
- Follow-up questions get directed to your ERG, not back to the speaker.
- Clear next action — audit, workshop path, or leadership briefing.
- Quotes and stats your comms team can still use six months later.
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