Training
We help employers to feel confident about recruiting, retaining, and promoting disabled staff, helping reduce the disability employment gap.
We provide training and advice for employers on developing more inclusive teams, workplaces and practices.
Our flagship training course:
Gain a better understanding of neurodivergence to help you feel more confident working in and supporting a neurodiverse team.
What sets our training apart?
Our training stands out for having lived experience at its core.
All our courses have been developed with an advisory group and are delivered by our neurodivergent and autistic trainers who have substantial professional experience in a range of different sectors and roles.
Our Lived Experience Trainers and Consultants:
Watch this video featuring members of our Autism Advisory Group offering their lived experience of autism in the workplace:
Throughout our work, we uphold the value that neurodivergent and disabled staff can bring to their organisations. Working with employers is one of the ways that we support disabled people to find jobs and reduce the disability employment gap.
In 2023, we participated in Scottish Government funded research into fair work for autistic people in partnership with Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University. You can read a summary of the report here: Closing the Fair Work gap: making work fair for autistic people in Scotland
We offer training in a variety of formats, including:
Bespoke Neurodiversity Works! training
In addition to our core Neurodiversity-confident Employer training, we are able to deliver training in different formats depending on your specific needs and preferences and to tailor the session focus.
Training follow-up ‘Learning into Practice’ session
This refresher and consolidation course is for line managers, HR professionals and other staff who have completed our Neurodiversity Confident Employer training within the last two years. These are live, interactive 2 hour group sessions led by experienced trainers and facilitators who are autistic or otherwise neurodivergent. Changes and actions identified during the earlier courses will be discussed, with a focus on identifying practical solutions and actions.
Autism and Neurodiversity ‘Deep Dive’ training session
These ‘Deep Dive’ sessions are for Managers, HR professionals, and work teams who wish to increase their knowledge and confidence specifically in particular aspects of attracting, recruiting and managing autistic and/or other neurodivergent staff. Participants will have the opportunity to explore areas in more detail and identify practical role and organisation-specific steps that can be taken to create a more inclusive physical work environment.
Example deep dive topics include:
- recruitment
- inclusive work environment
- job carving
- good management practice.
Neurodiversity-confident ‘bitesize’ training
Our two hour online sessions for up to 200 participants will build confidence in recruiting and retaining a neurodiverse workforce, providing a foundation for further more advanced or ‘deep-dive’ training on specific topics. As part of this participants will increase their understanding of the diverse capabilities and skill-sets autistic and other neurodivergent individuals can bring to their workforce.
We can also deliver a more interactive version of this session in-person to groups of up to 20 participants.
Successful work placements
This interactive course is for line managers and HR professionals who wish to build confidence in recruiting and enabling autistic and neurodivergent work placement candidates to develop and thrive in their work environment. Employers will understand the diverse capabilities and skill-sets neurodivergent individuals can bring to their workforce.
For more information or to discuss the training package and delivery format that will best suit your specific needs, please contact training@intowork.org.uk
Kat Allen
Lived Experience & Training Lead
About KatKat is our Lived Experience & Training Lead. Kat leads Into Work’s Scottish Government funded Aut Support Works! project providing peer-led support to autistic job-seekers and employees. Kat also leads Into Work’s growing team of Lived Experience Trainers who provide a range of core and bespoke neurodiversity training options for managers, HR and EDI professionals, work coaches, educators and mixed work teams across Scotland. Her role entails making sure that the voices and experiences of neurodivergent and disabled people are at the heart of Into Work training and resources.
Kat has been working in the voluntary sector since 2008, leading many health and equality focused projects, as well as service and project evaluations. With a background in social research, she is passionate about using co-production approaches to develop inclusive services and learning resources, rooted in lived experience.
- Year Joined: 2020
- Hobbies: I love both playing and listening to folk and trad music. My holidays often involve a music festival in a scenic location
- Pets: I have two rehomed cats who are very much in charge
Esther Beeston
Training Support Officer
About EstherEsther is our Training Support Officer. She supports the Lived Experience Training Team in delivering Into Work’s training programme.
Esther has a background in teaching and education. She feels passionately about providing people with the right environment and support to flourish.
- Year Joined: 2025
- Secret Talent: I play a mean game of scrabble
- Favourite Book: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx