Ed Thompson

About

Ed Thompson is the founder and CEO of Uptimize, a unique corporate training platform that helps organizations attract, hire, and retain talent that thinks differently. Educated at the University of Oxford, Thompson founded Uptimize in 2016, after recognizing an urgent need for greater understanding and appreciation of neurodiversity within the working world. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of neurodiversity, and has been featured by outlets including LinkedIn, the BBC, People Management magazine, HR.com, and the Financial Times. Thompson is the author of A Hidden Force: Unlocking the Potential of Neurodiversity at Work.

Books by Ed Thompson

Recent Posts

Your Employee Experience Is Probably Missing This One Thing

Employee experience, or EX, matters more than ever. By embracing how we all think differently, EX can be transformed for everybody.

A Look Into Neurodiversity-at-Work Trends for 2024

The field of neurodiversity at work continues to evolve. More and more organizations—often driven by their own neurodivergent staff—are showing a commitment to neuroinclusion.

Optimizing Your Hybrid Teams Through Neuroinclusion

Optimizing remote or "hybrid" work teams is perhaps the greatest management priority of the 2020s, as well as a key focus of HR. Achieving it requires neuroinclusion.

How Neuro-inclusion Transforms Management

Whether conscious of this or not, managers manage neurodiverse teams: No “normal” brain exists. Neuro-inclusion helps managers leverage their teams for optimal performance.

What a Neuroinclusive Organization Looks Like

What's become known as "neuroinclusion" is transforming organizations. Here's how.

The Rise of Neurodiversity at Work

Top employers, such as IBM and Salesforce, are no longer ignoring neurodiversity in their workplaces. Organizations that continue to do so will likely lose the talent wars.