Braiding is powerful, easy to use and refreshingly different

Do I belong here?
“I have always been included at work but I rarely felt like I belonged. Especially in meetings. I am autistic and meetings have always been painful. Listening to multiple loud voices competing against background noise is exhausting. Neurotypical communication through inference and implication is a huge effort to decipher. A geniune barrier. I have many good and novel ideas, but traditional meetings make it nearly impossible to share them in a live discussion.”
Drew Smithsimmons, Co-Founder, Braided Communications.
The power of diversity
Diverse teams think differently and solve problems. They are more productive and underpin organisational resilience. So smart businesses bring together people of different genders, cultures, backgrounds and thinking styles to unleash the power of diversity. But meetings still use legacy techniques optimised for neurotypical extroverts who tend to dominate live group discussions, often (inadvertently) suppressing the contributions of colleagues. For many neurodivergent people, engaging with traditional meetings requires suppressing their communication preferences. Masking who we genuinely are, especially our communication strengths, blocks full participation in meetings and can lead to burnout.
Braided meetings has been used by a wide range of neurotypical and neurodivergent people with comprehensive confirmation that it enabled them to fully participate in the meeting, something most of the neurodivergent people identified they could not do in traditional face-to-face meetings by video or in-person.
