UNIVERSITY & HEALTHCARE EVENTS

Safer Environments.
Better Understanding.
Stronger Outcomes.

Helping university and healthcare teams understand different minds, reduce hidden barriers and create environments where people feel safe, supported and able to engage.

Healthcare and university environments often operate under significant pressure, where hidden disabilities, sensory needs and cognitive differences can be overlooked or misunderstood.

Jodie delivers lived experience talks, training and workshops that improve communication, reduce stress and support safer, more inclusive environments for both staff and the people they support.

Talks • Training • Workshops • Clinical Team Sessions

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WHY THIS MATTERS

Pressure Changes How People Communicate, Process and Respond

Universities and healthcare environments depend on clear communication, trust and effective decision making, often while staff, students, patients and families are already experiencing significant pressure.

Neurodivergence, hidden disabilities, sensory overload, anxiety, fatigue and different communication needs can make those environments considerably harder to navigate when they are not recognised or understood.

Inclusion becomes meaningful when people feel understood in the environments where they need support most.
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Reduce Overwhelm

Recognise environmental and communication pressures before they escalate into distress.

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Improve Communication

Create clearer, safer and more accessible interactions across clinical and academic environments.

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Build Understanding

Help teams recognise neurodivergence, hidden disability and different cognitive and sensory needs.

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Strengthen Outcomes

Create environments where better understanding supports learning, care, engagement and wellbeing.

Small changes in communication and environment can make a significant difference to how safe, understood and supported someone feels.

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Jodie Steele working with university and healthcare teams
PRACTICAL DELIVERY

What Jodie Delivers for University & Healthcare Teams

Jodie provides practical, lived experience insight that helps universities and healthcare environments reduce hidden barriers, improve communication and create safer, more supportive spaces for both staff and those they support.

Her calm, relatable delivery makes it easier to explore complex and sensitive topics such as neurodivergence, hidden disabilities, sensory needs and high pressure environments without judgement or discomfort.

Sessions focus on real world challenges faced in clinical and academic settings, offering simple, actionable strategies that strengthen psychological safety, improve outcomes and support more compassionate, effective care and learning environments.

THE APPROACH

Practical lived experience insight that helps teams understand the person behind the behaviour, response or communication difference.

SIGNATURE SESSIONS

Designed for Real Clinical and Academic Environments

Each session is built around practical application, helping healthcare and university teams move beyond awareness into safer, more effective environments.

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Trauma Informed Communication

Support patients and individuals experiencing sensory overload, anxiety or fatigue through clearer, safer communication.

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Neurodiversity in Clinical Settings

Understand ADHD, autism, masking and cognitive differences within healthcare environments.

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High Pressure Wellbeing

Explore burnout, cognitive load and sustainable approaches that support frontline and academic teams.

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Leadership & Education Workshops

Practical strategies for hospitals, universities and community settings.

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OUTCOMES

What Can Change After the Conversation?

Sessions are designed to turn understanding into practical changes that improve communication, confidence and experience.

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More Confident Communication

Greater confidence communicating with people who process, respond or express themselves differently.

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Reduced Stress & Burnout

Better understanding of the pressures that contribute to overwhelm and exhaustion.

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Better Understanding of Need

Improved recognition of sensory, cognitive and communication differences.

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Reduced Overwhelm & Distress

Practical steps teams can use to make interactions and environments more accessible.

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Working With Jodie Feels Different

Sensitive topics are explored with warmth, clarity and practical understanding.

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Calm, relatable delivery

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Practical tools teams can apply immediately

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Clear explanations of hidden disabilities

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Insight grounded in lived experience

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Greater confidence across teams

Jodie creates psychologically safe spaces where people can ask questions, challenge assumptions and build greater confidence without fear of judgement.
COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE

Commercial Experience Across Global Brands and Organisations

Before founding NeuroTalks, Jodie Steele spent over two decades working within high performance commercial environments across the UK and internationally.

Her career spans global brands, major events and complex stakeholder environments, providing first hand insight into the pressures, expectations and realities that shape modern workplaces.

This commercial grounding is what makes her work today both credible and practical, bridging lived experience with real world organisational challenges.

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UNIVERSITY & HEALTHCARE ENQUIRIES

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Why this matters

Clinical and university environments aren’t built for how people actually think

Around one in five patients, students and staff are neurodivergent, yet most environments aren’t designed with sensory, cognitive or communication differences in mind.

The result is misunderstanding, anxiety, delays in care and avoidable pressure on both individuals and teams.

This isn’t about awareness.
It’s about safer, more effective environments.

Improve communication

Between clinical teams, patients and neurodivergent individuals.

Reduce stress & burnout

Support staff working in high-pressure environments.

Strengthen safety

Build trauma-informed practice and psychological safety.

Improve patient experience

Create safer, more compassionate and inclusive care.

Neurodivergent inclusion isn’t “extra training” — it’s fundamental to safe, effective, person-centred care.

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What Jodie delivers for University & Healthcare teams

Jodie provides practical, lived-experience insight that helps universities and healthcare environments reduce hidden barriers, improve communication and create safer, more supportive spaces for both staff and those they support.

Her calm, relatable delivery makes it easier to explore complex and sensitive topics such as neurodivergence, hidden disabilities, sensory needs and high-pressure environments without judgement or discomfort.

Sessions focus on real-world challenges faced in clinical and academic settings, offering simple, actionable strategies that strengthen psychological safety, improve outcomes and support more compassionate, effective care and learning environments.

Jodie speaking
Signature sessions

Designed for real clinical and academic environments

Each session is built around practical application, helping healthcare and university teams move beyond awareness into safer, more effective environments.

Trauma-informed communication

Support patients and individuals experiencing sensory overload, anxiety or fatigue.

Neurodiversity in clinical settings

Understand ADHD, autism, masking and cognitive differences in healthcare environments.

High-pressure wellbeing

Reduce burnout and support frontline teams in demanding environments.

Leadership & education workshops

Practical strategies for hospitals, universities and community settings.

Jodie speaking
Outcomes

Popular outcomes include

More confident clinical communication
Reduced staff stress and burnout
Better understanding of sensory and cognitive needs
Practical steps to reduce overwhelm and distress
Improved patient experience and care outcomes
Jodie speaking
What to expect

Working with Jodie feels different

Calm, relatable delivery
Practical tools leaders can apply immediately
Clear explanations of hidden disabilities
Insight grounded in lived experience
Increased confidence across teams

Jodie creates psychologically safe spaces where teams feel heard, understood and equipped to drive meaningful culture change.

Trusted Across Global Brands & High Performance Environments

Before founding NeuroTalks, Jodie Steele spent over two decades working within high-performance commercial environments across the UK and internationally. Her career spans global brands, major events, and complex stakeholder environments providing first-hand insight into the pressures, expectations, and realities that shape modern workplaces.

This commercial grounding is what makes her work today both credible and practical bridging lived experience with real-world organisational challenges.

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