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event-icon Personal Excellence Programme

Uncovering and celebrating autism and ADHD in females

event date April 15, 2026 event timing 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Virtual Members: FREE Non-Members: £10

Event overview

As awareness grows around autism and ADHD in women, organisations have a powerful opportunity to build more inclusive, high-performing workplaces that recognise and value neurodivergent talent. This engaging and insightful session with Jess Rad, founder of The WomenHood, explores how autism and ADHD can present differently in females and what this means for individuals, teams, and organisational culture.

Bookings are closed for this event.

About this event

Hosted by Citi, this engaging and positive 60-minute session is designed to support both the 'neurocurious' and the well informed, about themselves or other neurobiologies. Using The WomenHood framework of Knowledge-Mindset-Toolkit, Jess Rad, founder of the The WomanHood, will lead you to explore how autism and ADHD can present in females, including the intersections with hormones, race, and work.

The session creates a safe and supportive space to share lived experiences, highlight unspoken stories, and develop a deeper understanding of how allies and organisations can foster inclusion and belonging.

user-icon Key takeaways

  • Increase awareness of how Autism and ADHD present in females, including the lived experience, key traits and the hormonal impacts.

  • Destigmatise and celebrate these neurotypes via the neurodiversity paradigm

  • Reduce the potential loneliness felt by those neurocurious / currently unidentified through the sharing of other Unspoken Women’s Stories

  • Understand how to support colleagues who may be neurodivergent

  • A deeper understanding of neurodiversity and inclusive workplace practices

  • Recognition of opportunities for positive change that benefit all employees

Jess Rad

Jess Rad is a National award-winning speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of The WomenHood, a platform closing gender gaps across women’s health, money, neurodiversity, and relationships. Winner of the 2024 National Diversity Award for Gender and recognised by The People’s Honours 2025, she delivers talks, workshops, and programmes that foster inclusion and drive cultural and societal change. A late-identified neurodivergent woman and co-parent navigating premature menopause, Jess combines personal insight with practical experience to open up conversations many shy away from. As an Ambassador for SEND charity Amaze, she is passionate about amplifying the voices of parent carers and reframing narratives around neurodiversity.

The WomenHood is a platform dedicated to advancing gender equity, increasing neuroinclusion and male allyship. We help businesses close their gender gaps by delivering high quality, candid, interactive programmes, workshops and consultancy across: women’s health, neurodiversity, money and relationships. Delivered with an intersectional lens and warmth.