Neurodivergent

Ebe is an award-winning community engagement and inclusion practitioner creating lasting change through evidence-based approaches that move beyond compliance to genuine inclusion.

Working with government, education, community, and private sector organisations, Ebe combines lived experience as a neurodivergent person with disability with extensive professional expertise across public, private, and community sectors. Her goal is shifting the dial towards a society that naturally accommodates and celebrates the identities and experiences of all people.

Ebe offers services across three key areas:

1) Training - Delivering tailored, evidence-based training that creates lasting change including neurodiversity in the workplace, disability confidence and accessibility, inclusive communication, LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and Universal Design for Learning. All training moves beyond generic awareness-raising to provide practical strategies teams can implement immediately.

2) Facilitation and consultation - Expert co-design facilitation, stakeholder consultation, focus groups, and program evaluation using inclusive engagement practices. Extensive experience working with people with disability, children and young people, and traditionally marginalised communities in groups ranging from one-on-one to several hundred participants.

3) Event and speaker services - Thought-provoking keynote presentations, engaging event hosting and MC services, and authentic lived experience perspectives for panels and discussions. Topics include creating inclusive workplaces, implementing Universal Design principles, and amplifying marginalised voices in decision-making.

Ebe holds a Master of Disability and Inclusion from Deakin University and currently serves as Deputy Chair of Children and Young People with Disability Australia. As the 2024 winner of the National Awards for Disability Leadership Change Making Award, she brings both strategic thinking and practical implementation skills to every engagement.

Her professional and lived experience provide a strong foundation for understanding diverse working contexts, challenges, and opportunities across sectors.

Ready to create genuine change? Connect with Ebe at www.ebeganon.com.au ✨

Yenn Purkis can provide presentations, writing in many formats, consultation services, mentoring and coaching. Yenn has worked with a large number of organisations to support them in relation to inclusion and respect for neurodivergent folks and those with psychosocial disability.

Yenn has been working in the advocacy and inclusion space for over 20 years, They have (currently) 17 published books and have given talks all over the world. Yenn has given two TEDx talks (2013 about resilience and 2023 about gender diversity and autism). Yenn can tailor presentations and writing to the needs of the audience and is flexible to the needs of the customer.

Yenn can from a strong perspective of the social model of disability and all their work is informed by the concept of 'different not less. They are also non-binary and asexual and identify strongly in the Queer pride space. Their work encompasses an intersectionality approach.

Yenn works with a number of organisations around inclusion in the disability and neurodiversity and Queer pride spaces. Yenn is highly proficient and professional and has a significant work ethic and a sense of pride in all they do.

Yenn's fees are reasonable - feel free to contact them for a quote.