Sarah Tancell

Neuro-D.

Sarah Tancell FCIPD is the founder and Chief Architect of Neuro-D. built on the conviction that neuroinclusion is not a diversity initiative, it is an organisational design problem, and that solving it properly requires a different kind of thinking entirely.

At the heart of Neuro-D. is the Design Gap Model™, a proprietary methodology with no equivalent in the UK market, and a growing body of practitioners, tools and accredited programmes designed to change not just what organisations know about neurodiversity, but what they actually do differently.

One of the UK's most sought-after voices on neuroinclusion, Sarah is regularly invited to speak at large-scale enterprises and has taken her work to international audiences. She is known for a style that is direct, evidence-based, and entirely free of the comfortable half-truths that dominate most diversity conversations. She does not do awareness for its own sake. She does design.

Sarah has over 25 years of senior HR experience, including roles at International HR Director level in the gaming industry and the founding and exit of an award-winning HR consultancy earlier in her career. She is a Fellow of the CIPD, the highest professional membership grade in HR.

Before founding Neuro-D., she designed and delivered a global neurodiversity programme reaching over 11,000 employees across multiple countries and realised that the tools and frameworks she needed simply did not exist. So she built them.

She is triple neurodivergent ( autistic, ADHD and dyslexic) and that is not a footnote, it's the foundation of everything she builds. For much of her career, Sarah was doing what many neurodivergent professionals do: excelling on paper while quietly struggling with a workplace that was not designed for how her brain works. The masking, the exhaustion, the constant effort of adapting to systems built for a different kind of thinker, she lived all of it, at senior level, for years.

Through the Design Gap Model™, Neuro-D. helps organisations move from intention to infrastructure building workplaces that genuinely work for the full range of human thinking. Sarah is also the creator of the Neurodiversity Awareness Practitioner Course, a CPD-accredited programme launching in August 2026 , which exists, in part, as a direct response to the rise of neurodiversity influencer culture. As misinformation about neurodiversity spreads faster than evidence, Sarah designed the course to create informed practitioners: people who can turn up the volume on neurodiversity in their organisations or practices, but with the rigour, the accuracy and the expertise to back it up. Not content. Not clout. Capability.

Being triple neurodivergent means everything she builds is tested against the sharpest possible standard: does it actually work for the people it is supposed to serve, or does it just make organisations feel better about themselves? She has very little patience for the latter.