Live webinar · 1 October 2026 · 10:30am GMT

Not careless. Not lazy. Not aggressive.

What three research programmes tell us about ADHD and the workplace.

ADHD-related tribunal claims have risen sixfold in five years. Employers are losing cases not because they are malicious, but because they do not know what they are looking at when an ADHD symptom gets documented as a character flaw. This webinar presents the findings, tells the story of what happens when organisations get it right and when they get it wrong, and gives every attendee three specific things to do on Monday morning.

Evidence-led. Practically focused. No guilt. No jargon. Just the data and what to do with it.

475

tribunal judgments read in full

428

neurodivergent employees surveyed

412

employers measured

6×

rise in ADHD claims in five years

The format

Damning evidence. Living proof. Then the work.

Part one

Damning Evidence

The data from three research programmes, presented clearly and without jargon. What the numbers say, what they do not say, and where your organisation almost certainly sits in them.

Part two

Living Proof

James Wenger on building genuinely adaptive, inclusive cultures from the inside. Businesses awarded a place in the Times 100 Best Companies to Work For five years running, which then survived hostile takeovers, turned profitable in a notoriously difficult industry, and were ultimately acquired by an industry behemoth. All of it before he knew he was neurodivergent, and what the ADHD diagnosis made sense of in retrospect.

Part three

The Workshop

Three real tribunal scenarios. Your instinct first, then what the judgment actually said. Plus the eight questions every manager should be able to answer before any formal process begins.

Who is presenting

Both of us were diagnosed late. Both of us were running things.

Collette Easton

Former CEO, three exits
AC coach · diagnosed at 49

A former CEO with three exits across technology and professional services, an Association for Coaching coach and group mentor, and an APMG-accredited Neuroscience for Change Management Practitioner. Diagnosed with ADHD at 49, after a career that included being the untrained manager doing the misreading, and the employee whose symptoms were misread. Usually in the same decade.

Creator of the first complete meta-analysis of every published ADHD employment tribunal decision in the UK: 475 full judgments read and coded, 259 genuine core cases, published free. Author of The Man-AGER: How to Cure the Leadership Disease That's Killing Your Team, co-founder of the Loops Work app, and creator of the Human Operating System, the Three Moments Toolkit and The Company Safeword.

The research LinkedIn

James Wenger

MSc Applied Neuroscience (Dist.)
Diagnosed at 46

A multidisciplinary professional with executive leadership experience across technology and media. Master's degree with Distinction in Applied Neuroscience and Bioinformatics. Diagnosed with ADHD at 46, with an autism assessment currently underway.

He led the transformation that built inclusive, adaptive cultures and won the Times 100 Best Companies to Work For award five consecutive years, before he knew he was neurodivergent. He has managed mergers and acquisitions, including guiding businesses through the Competition and Markets Authority process, and is a member of the British Computer Society, the British Neuroscience Association and the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.

Expert advisor on the Tools for Schools project and the Flex Toolkit for neurodivergent pupils; advisor and contributor to current research on the ADHD medication pathway; co-author of the EUNETHYDIS Consensus Statement on Digital Health and ADHD, and of Diverse Minds, Shared Spaces.

The evidence

Three programmes. Three angles. One conclusion.

The first webinar to bring together the complete picture of ADHD in the UK workplace: primary tribunal research, longitudinal academic study, and lived experience of transformation from the inside. Collette Easton and James Wenger present three bodies of evidence that have, independently and from completely different angles, reached the same conclusion.

More training. Worse outcomes.

Three independent programmes, from completely different angles, reached the same conclusion: the system is not built for neurodivergent brains, the people running organisations do not know it, and the gap between what leaders think is happening and what employees are experiencing is widening every year.

Why attend

Awareness is not changing outcomes.

The conversation about ADHD at work has been dominated by awareness. Awareness, on its own, is not moving a single number in any of these three datasets.

This is not a DEI session. It is an evidence briefing with a practical workshop attached, for the people who will be in the room when it actually matters.

Who it is for

HR professionals managing a live disclosure, performance process or adjustment conversation.

Founders and business leaders who carry the risk when a process goes wrong.

People managers who are about to have the conversation and want to get it right first time.

What you will learn

Four things you can use on Monday.

The Four Misreads

When a symptom is written down as a character flaw

The four specific ways ADHD symptoms are routinely documented as carelessness, laziness, aggression or attitude, and what the tribunal record shows happens next.

The Disclosure Pause

The highest-value habit in the whole corpus

In every verified case where a formal process continued unchanged after an ADHD disclosure, the employer lost. Every one. The pause is free, and it is the difference.

The Three Moments

Disclosure, sanction, adjustment

The three points where every ADHD case was decided. What the employers who won had done differently. And what the employers who lost did not do.

The Toolkit

Three working documents, built from the corpus

Not principles. Documents. Three that every manager and HR professional can put to work the day after the webinar. See the Three Moments toolkit.

1 October 2026, 10:30am GMT. Online.

One session, presented live, with the workshop attached. £95 a seat, and the two frameworks come with it.

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Collaborating partners: ask for the £50-off discount code.

What £95 includes

The live briefing and workshop 1 Oct

The Three Moments Toolkit worth £295

The Company Safeword Framework worth £95

£50 donated to ADHD UK per paid seat

Not one case in this corpus needed a villain. They needed a pause.