Proceed Group joins Neurodiversity in Business (NiB)

We’ve become a corporate member of Neurodiversity in Business (NiB), an industry forum helping companies build genuinely neuroinclusive workplaces. It’s a step we wanted to take, and one that builds on the work we’d already started.

Here’s a stat worth sitting with. The Tech Talent Charter found that 53% of technology professionals identify as neurodivergent. Employers estimate the figure at just 3%. That’s not a small gap. It suggests a lot of people are choosing not to disclose, and that’s usually not because they don’t want to. It’s because workplaces haven’t given them a reason to feel it’s safe.

We work in tech. If over half our industry’s talent is neurodivergent, then building a workplace where people feel able to be themselves isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s central to how we do business well.

NiB launched at the Houses of Parliament and now brings together corporates including Accenture, Google, IBM, KPMG, Lloyds Banking Group and Unilever, alongside ND advocacy groups such as the National Autistic Society and the British Dyslexia Association. Its aim is to improve the working lives of neurodivergent individuals and help unlock the contribution they bring to business and society, led by neurodivergent experts rather than dictated from the outside.

For us, it means access to a network of employers and specialists sharing what actually works, rather than figuring out neuroinclusion in isolation. That covers best-practice insight on recruitment, workplace adjustments and retention, plus a direct line to the ND ecosystem when we want to go further than we currently know how to.

We already hold Understanding Autism accreditation and offer an adjustable recruitment process, including extra time, advance questions, a quiet space and no requirement to disclose a diagnosis. NiB membership isn’t a replacement for that work, it’s a way of strengthening it and staying connected to what other organisations are learning along the way.

At the heart of it is something simple. We hire on merit, and we remove what gets in its way. NiB gives us more tools to make good on that.