1 in 5 of Your Team Is Neurodivergent. Here's How to Lead Them, with Cara Wilson

1 in 5 of Your Team Is Neurodivergent. Here's How to Lead Them, with Cara Wilson

Published: July 12, 2026

Duration: 32:27

Up to 20% of your team is neurodivergent. Most leaders have no idea, and it's costing them their best people.

Executive coach Cara Wilson spent years coaching software engineers before realizing why she connected with them so easily. Many of them are neurodivergent. So is she. Cara only discovered she's autistic two years ago, and it reframed her whole career.

We get into why analytical minds try to break every framework before trusting it, the single habit that makes teams more inclusive (make the implicit explicit), what to do when an employee asks for a protocol...