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How to thrive as a neurodivergent entrepreneur

Inspiration

Key learnings

  • Self-awareness and education are a crucial step in creating a more inclusive environment.
  • Technology and AI can be useful management tools to help keep you focused and on-track.
  • By learning your strengths and weaknesses it’s possible to use them to your advantage and make yourself more successful in business and your personal life.

Moira Barnes is a seasoned sales trainer and the driving force behind Moira Barnes Sales Consultancy and Training. With 30 years’ experience from starting in a Liverpool department store at 16 to navigating media, motors, hospitality, and beauty, Moira has now embarked on her own entrepreneurial journey helping others to ‘sell with heart’.

Moira began another journey during lockdown when she started noticing her neurodiverse behaviour in both her professional and personal life, which led to a diagnosis of ADHD and Dyscalculic (dyslexia with numbers).

Here, Moira shares her story and explains the ways in which she has learnt to work with, rather than against, her wonderful brain and utilises it to her advantage, being able to achieve anything she sets her mind to.

Click the headings below to find out more.

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Journey to diagnosis

 

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Learning to live and work with neurodivergence

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Technology that helps with symptoms of neurodivergence

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AI’s role in supporting neurodivergent brains

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Neurodivergent thinking gives you an advantage

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The importance of educating yourself and others

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