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As more people are being diagnosed with ADHD, autism, and other neurological conditions, our proudly neurodiverse, austistic-led workplace has received lots of questions about how to accommodate a neurodiverse workforce. While that may sound scary or high maintenance, accommodations don't need to mean sacrifice or lowered expectations--instead, by shifting focus from individual diagnoses to opportunities for playing to all workers' strengths and abilities, this zine will help you to support employees with completing their tasks, getting past blocks, and avoiding burnout. Designed to offer managers concrete strategies for building functional, safe, and effective workplaces for people of all neurological inclinations and abilities, this straightforward guide will help your business save (and make) money, avoid common managerial crises, and retain high-performing staff. The work it takes to implement these easy and supportive strategies will save you time, cash, and turmoil in the long run! Put simply, to be a neurodiversity-friendly employer is to make it easier for every one of your staff to excel--neurodivergent and neurotypical alike. Pick up this zine, open your mind, and you'll be well on your way to better management for everybody.
About the author
Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. He is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing and co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, Art of Autism, Utne Reader, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. He is the author of People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business, Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business on the Spectrum, Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior, Make a Zine, The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting, Proud to be Retarded, Bicycle Culture Rising, and more. He is the director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, $100 & A T-Shirt, and the Groundswell film series. The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy described Biel as "not trained in pedagogy." He lives in Portland, Ore and his work can be found at joebiel.net
