How We Work

We talk with young New Zealand public sector lawyer and ADHDer Tanuvi Garimella about how she has navigated the world of work and her study. This is a wide ranging chat that has something for everyone from neurodivergent employees, HR specialists, line managers, senior leaders, teachers and parents. Since we recorded this episode, Tanuvi was offered and has accepted a place at the London School of...

In this wide ranging episode we talk with Jarad Brown about how he navigates the world of study and work with dyspraxia and dyslexia. Jarad is the youngest of our interviewees in this series, so the episode focuses slightly more than usual on study, but there is still plenty of discussion about work. The discussion is wide-ranging; everything from explaining what dyspraxia is, to an in-depth discu...

In the third episode in How We Work's series on neurodiversity in the workplace in New Zealand we chat with the amazing ADHDer Janine Boon, whose career has traversed everything from hairdressing, the fashion industry, administration and HR, to their current role as a senior remuneration analyst. We even talked a little bit about the How We Work community at the end! This episode along with the ot...

In this episode, of our series about neurodiversity in New Zealand workplaces, I talk with dyslexic hairdresser and entrepreneur Tina Fox who's operated her own hair saloon for the last 17 years, about how she has navigated the world of work with dyslexia. Like half the interviewees for our series she is a migrant. In her case, despite her very English sounding name, English was not her first...

In this episode, the first in a six-part series, David Hammond, the founder of the How We Work social enterprise talks to Nadia Mitchell, an Information Adviser, about her experiences of navigating the world of work in New Zealand as someone who is neurodivergent (specifically ADHD and Autism in her case). This episode along with the others to follow in this series follows a very straightforward c...