#250 – NeuroDiversity in Education and Entrepreneurship

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What’s in this episode?

Thanks to Learnosity and WorkTripp for sponsoring this episode. 

In this episode, I’m in conversation with:

• Felix Atkin the Founder & CEO at Sharesy on dealing with cost pressures in schools

• Dr. Maureen Dunne, neurodiversity advisor to Lego Foundation and the President and CEO of Autism Community Ventures on supporting innovation in the area of neurodiversity

We talk about: 

• How to help schools raise extra funds by easily supporting their community needs  
• What funds are available for innovation around neurodiverse needs – including USD 20million to catalyse innovation supporting neurodivergent children
• Why this matters and can strengthen the education, products, services and business we build and use 

Plus, some updates on edtech events, reports, and other news. 

People

Felix Atkin the Founder & CEO at Sharesy

Dr. Maureen Dunne, neurodiversity advisor to Lego Foundation and the President and CEO of Autism Community Ventures

Dr Maureen Dunne
Neurodiversity Consultant, trainer, and workshop facilitator for neurodiversity, innovation, and entrepreneurship topics. Co-Founder, Autism Angels Group, a mission driven organisation that aims to bring together capital and talent to drive economic opportunities and technology-driven solutions to create a positive social impact for the autism community. President and CEO, Autism Community Ventures, a public benefit corporation with a network of global partners and a mission to promote social, financial, and economic inclusion for neurodivergent people. Dr. Dunne completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

Sophie Bailey, Founder and Host of The Edtech Podcast and Founder of WorkTripp. 

Sophie is the founder of the iTunes new and noteworthy, The Edtech Podcast. The mission of The Edtech Podcast is to improve the dialogue between ‘ed’ and ‘tech’ for better innovation, through storytelling. The podcast is downloaded from over 145 countries with the UK, US & Aus in the top 3. Sophie has spoken and moderated at a variety of events including SXSW EDU, Yidan Education Prize, ASU GSV Summit, and the Next Billion Edtech Summit. She is an industry mentor and advisor, a Reimagine Education, GESA Awards, Bett Awards and XPrize Adult Literacy judge, and previous Edtech50 and Edtech Digest winner.

Sophie is passionate about lifelong and everyday learning, and is now building new venture, WorkTripp. If she’s not interviewing a University Vice-Chancellor, Edtech Investor, School Leader, or StartUp about education innovation, she’s engrossed in Teach Your Monster to Read or wrestling her lockdown baby. A keen cyclist, she lives in West Devon which she considers the English version of the Pyrenees, and is now building a B2B business, WorkTripp. 

References from this week’s episode

• Learnosity
• WorkTripp
• Edutech Europe, Amsterdam, 5 – 6 October 2022
• Edtech Next Summit, 24.-26 October in northwestern Germany
• https://fullspektrum.co.uk/
• Dr Maureen Dunne, Lego Foundation 
• Lego Foundation Neurodiversity fund 
• Felix Atkin, Sharesy
• https://www.sharesy.com/
• https://www.filisia.com/
• http://www.littlejourney.health/

Thank you to this week’s sponsors

Learnosity is the global leader in assessment solutions. Serving over 700 customers and more than 40 million learners, its mission is to advance education and learning worldwide with best-in-class technology. Learnosity’s specialized expertise and pre-built assessment APIs make it easy for modern learning platforms to quickly launch fully featured products, scale on demand, and always meet fast-evolving market needs. Visit learnosity.com today to discover how.

WorkTripp is a marketplace for high-growth companies to book team offsites, to improve talent retention, cross-team innovation and employee experience. We come at team offsites from an events and learning and development perspective, not just a transactional booking process. This helps teams to get the most out of their time and investment on bringing everyone together. To book a WorkTripp or add your listing go to www.worktripp.com  

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