In practice

Kind Mechanics in practice

The point is not awareness for awareness's sake.

A useful idea should change something: make a request easier to understand, a room easier to work in, a meeting easier to leave with a decision, or a difficult subject easier to talk about without turning people into a training exercise.

These are some of the places where that has been put into practice.

2026 · Datavant · developed with Learning & Development and Ireland HR

Neurodiversity Awareness Month

A month-long internal programme built to make neurodiversity more understandable and more useful in everyday work.

Rather than trying to turn everybody into an expert, the programme focused on common points of friction: cognitive load, context switching, masking, executive function, sensory overload, and what colleagues, managers and teams can actually do differently once they recognise them.

Across the month we used five newsletters, two live sessions and a set of practical resources. The aim was to leave people with more than a definition. Each piece had to answer the useful next question:

What can we change?

2026 finalist

Workplace Equity Initiative Award, Diversity Inclusion Tech Awards 2026. Winners announced 17 September 2026 in Dublin.

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Terminology Tuesday

Sometimes the first bit of friction is simply not having the words for what is happening.

Terminology Tuesday is a set of plain-English reference cards for recurring neurodiversity concepts. Each one covers what the term means, how it can show up at work, and what might help.

They are deliberately small. Read one in a minute. Share it in a team channel. Use it to start a conversation.

Browse Terminology Tuesday →

If you're working on similar problems inside an organisation and something here is useful, you're welcome to use it. If you want to compare notes, you can reach me at brian@kindmechanics.com.