Consultancy with Jacqui Wilmshurst MSc PhD CPsychol AFBPsS

Jacqui Wilmshurst is a Chartered Psychologist and autistic consultant who helps organisations become places where neurodivergent and neurotypical people can work well together — and who mentors and coaches neurodivergent individuals directly. Her neuroinclusion work is aimed at start-ups, small and medium-sized businesses, and individuals; larger enterprises are referred on to Uptimize, a specialist global neuroinclusion provider. That makes her a practical option for a smaller employer that wants expert input without an enterprise-scale programme.

The organisational offer covers whole-organisation training on neurodiversity, inclusion and belonging, training designed for managers, and bespoke sessions for HR teams. Its distinguishing feature is evaluation: rather than stopping at awareness, she measures outcomes against validated behaviour change metrics, so an employer can see whether day-to-day practice has shifted. The one-to-one strand offers a confidential space to work through challenges, recognise strengths and build self-advocacy and self-care, with packages flexed to fit different budgets. She contributed to and helped edit A Hidden Force: Unlocking the Power of Neurodiversity at Work, and contributed to The Canary Code.

Her route into the field is unusual. She served fifteen years as a British Army officer, retiring as a Captain, then spent six years researching environmental risk and human resilience, and later held senior workplace health and wellbeing roles at the BBC, Facebook and TikTok. She holds a PhD in health, environmental and social psychology from the University of Sheffield and is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Being diagnosed autistic in her forties led her to bring neuroinclusion into a practice that already spanned leadership development, team effectiveness and workplace wellbeing. She is based in East Yorkshire, where she also runs a wildlife sanctuary; the site does not publish fees or say how sessions are delivered, so both are worth raising at first contact.