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A different Kind of productivity talk
Brains @ Work is a tag-team keynote by Jeff Gibbard (neurodivergent entrepreneur) and Sarah Ohanesian (neurotypical operations leader) that teaches teams why the people with the potential to frustrate us the most at work, might be our greatest untapped asset.
Instead of trying to fix what isn’t actually broken, Brains @ Work shows you the hidden truth: the problem isn’t the person — it’s that invisible barriers stopping us from seeing their gifts.
Through personal stories, the CARE framework, and the User Guide concept, audiences leave with practical tools to turn cognitive differences into team performance advantages — without policies or diagnoses.
That Person on Your Team Who Drives You Crazy?
They might just be your secret weapon.
Research shows 15-20% of people are neurodivergent.
That means there are people on your team who process the world in fundamentally different (but not wrong) ways than the rest of the group.
When managers don’t know this, they try to “fix” people instead of troubleshooting around the obstacles to real collaboration.
We show you how the highest producing and most innovative teams see what’s normally invisible. Leave this talk with the tools to build an inclusive organization leveraging cognitive diversity so everyone can thrive.
Make no mistake, this talk is about outcomes and performance. We just take a different route to get there.
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Neurodiversity isn’t just inclusion, it’s an actual Performance Lever
A big reason why many inclusion efforts fail, is often because organizations fail to ask two critical questions:
- why are we doing this?
- what does success really look like?
Let’s answer those questions.
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Why Policies don’t work, and what to do instead
Policies are inherently designed to protect. Policies protect the company, and, to a lesser extent policies protect team members.
But it’s hard to win when all you focus on is liability, risk, and defense.
At some point, you need to unleash your talent.
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3 Invisible Assumptions that destroy team cohesion
There it is, hiding in plain sight: a chain of assumptions that result in frustration, wasted time, and lost talent.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once that happens, you might just have to live with a team where everyone gets to do their best work.
Meet Jeff & Sarah
A duo that shouldn’t work so well together, except they do. That’s the point.
Jeff Gibbard is a neurodivergent entrepreneur (ADHD/autism) and co-founder of Super Productive. He’s built productivity systems that work for him based on lived experience.
Sarah Ohanesian is a neurotypical operations leader and co-founder of Super Productive. She’s an organized, Type-A, productivity expert.
Their differences aren’t simply a challenge to overcome, it’s the magic in their formula and one of the key reasons clients choose them.
What Your Team Will Walk Away With
What people have said about brains @ Work
“Testimonials, as authentic endorsements from satisfied customers, serve as potent social proof, significantly inspiring trust in potential consumers.”
Testimonials, as authentic endorsements from satisfied customers, serve as potent social proof, significantly inspiring trust in potential consumers.
Testimonials, as authentic endorsements from satisfied customers, serve as potent social proof, significantly inspiring trust in potential consumers.
Testimonials, as authentic endorsements from satisfied customers, serve as potent social proof, significantly inspiring trust in potential consumers.
Frequently Asked Questions
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If you’re looking for a keynote that changes how your audience sees the people they work with — and gives them something real to do about it — this is it.
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