Benny Zuffolini bravely breaks down how she's navigating enterprise as a neurodiverse design leader, and shares a formative realisation from facilitating her first design sprint.

Highlights include:

⭐ Should people treat you differently when they find out that you’re autistic? ⭐ Why don’t you wish you were diagnosed as being neurodiverse earlier? ⭐ How important is it for people to tell each other the stories they’re telling themselves? ⭐ Are you concerned that being open about neurodiversity may lead to discrimination? ⭐ What have you learned about effectively facilitating workshops with senior stakeholders?

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Who is Benny Zuffolini?

Benny is a Product Design Director at Pearson, a 176 year old world-leading education company that’s helping people to achieve their potential through physical and digital learning and assessment experiences.

Prior to Pearson, Benny was the Head of Design and Experience at Zego, a UK-based insurtech startup that simplifies the way businesses insure their vehicles.

Benny was also the UX Manager at Vonage, where she was credited as one of two design leaders that enabled the successful creation and rollout of a design system that unified the company’s digital product experience, and brought greater efficiency and scalability to design efforts.

Recently diagnosed with autism, Benny has been actively raising awareness of neurodiversity and its many unique aspects and advantages in the workplace.

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Find Benny here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennyzuffolini/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/benny_bz Website: https://bennypad.com/

The Ladder of Inference: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_91.htm

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