Nervous System-Friendly Workplaces: Designing Environments That Reduce Overload

Speaker: Allie Warren

Description

For neurodivergent employees, the workplace can often feel like a constant assault on the senses—bright lights, background noise, rapid-fire communication, and relentless pace.

Nervous System-Friendly Workplaces: Designing Environments That Reduce Overload explores how the physical and social environment affects nervous system regulation, and why small changes can make a big difference in preventing overload and supporting long-term wellbeing.

In this session, we’ll cover:

• How lighting, sound, communication styles, and work pace impact neurodivergent focus and energy

• Why normalising stimming, movement, and access to quiet spaces is essential

• Practical, scalable ways to design workplaces that support regulation—not contribute to exhaustion

  
  

Led by a neurodivergent speaker with lived experience, this talk offers honest insight and real-world strategies to help organisations build calmer, more sustainable environments where everyone can do their best work.