NEW Authors Speak with Author & Industrial-Organizational Psychologist and Ludmila Praslova, Ph.D.

About the Author: Ludmila Praslova

Author of 📙 The Canary Code | Professor, Organizational Psychology & Business | Culture | HR | Systemic Intersectional Inclusion | Belonging | Wellbeing | 🚫 Moral Injury | Neurodiversity | Autism @ Work | Global Diversity

As a first-generation academic and a neurodivergent woman, Dr. Praslova knows first-hand that single-focus “inclusion initiatives” leave people behind. However, the principles of creating culture-add organizations can be applied to building systems for intersectional and holistic inclusion.
Her consulting is focused on creating organizational systems for supporting human dignity and well-being, and providing neuroinclusion training to organizations such as Amazon, Bank of America, and MIT.

Ludmila N. Praslova, Ph.D. is named a member of Thinkers 50 2024 Radar, a global group of 30 management thinkers leaders whose ideas are most likely to shape the future of work.
She is a Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the Vanguard University of Southern California and regularly writes for Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Psychology Today, and Forbes.

She is the first person to have published in Harvard Business Review from an autistic perspective.
Dr. Praslova is a talent strategy expert with extensive experience in global diversity and neurodiversity. Her early experience in global diversity taught her the importance of creating culture-add work environments. However, the same experience and her continued career have shown that focusing on one aspect of diversity is not enough. Globally aware organizations are not always gender-inclusive, gender-focused advancement programs can exclude based on disability or socioeconomic origin, and neurodivergent people are often forgotten or segregated even in organizations considered champions of inclusion.

She has a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Akron and is a Senior Certified Human Resources Practitioner (SHRM-SCP).

About the Book: The Canary Code, A GUIDE TO NEURODIVERSITY, DIGNITY AND INTERSECTIONAL BELONGING AT WORK

Healthy systems that support talent most impacted by organizational ills—canaries in the coal mine—support everyone.

Currently, despite their skills and work ethics, members of ADHD, autism, Tourette Syndrome, learning differences, and related communities face drastic barriers to hiring and advancement. In the U.S., 30-40% of neurodivergent people and 85% of autistic college graduates struggle with unemployment. Like canaries in the mine, they are impacted by issues that ultimately harm everyone. Lack of flexibility, transparency, and psychological safety excludes neurodivergent, disabled, and multiply marginalized talent—and leaves most employees stressed and disengaged.

This unique book is a guide to change-making for CEOs, managers, HR leaders, and everyone who wants to contribute to building a more inclusive world. The authors’ over 25 years of experience spanning global diversity to neurodiversity leadership and extensive research on innovative practices of uniquely inclusive organizations around the world inform this book. It is an:
Explicitly intersectional approach to (neuro)inclusion with a holistic understanding of humans and their social, cognitive, emotional, and physical differences.

An holistic approach to organizational talent practices, from creating job descriptions and recruiting to onboarding, performance management, and leadership development.
A globally inclusive approach that centers, celebrates and invites multiple voices from the neurodivergent community.

A “lead from where you are” approach to change-making. This groundbreaking book combines the lived experience with academic rigor, innovative thought leadership, and lively, accessible writing. To support different types of readers, academic, applied, and lived experience content is clearly identified, helping readers choose their own adventure.

Purchase The Canary Code here: www.amazon.com/Canary-Code-Neurodiversity-I
Intersectional-Belonging/dp/152300584X

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