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About the event
Join Lexxic Psychologist Helen Musgrove and special guests Kay Sargent, Sean Gilroy and Roxanne Steel for this Q and A session, exploring how we can design our built environments to accommodate and empower diverse cognitive and sensory processing styles.
The agenda will be shaped by you! Our experts will answer your questions about the principles, practicalities and benefits of designing neuro-inclusive working environments, drawing on their considerable professional experience. Kay is Director of Thought Leadership, Interiors, at HOK, and author of “Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces.” Sean is Senior UX Principal for Accessibility and Inclusive Design at the BBC and co-lead of BBC Cape, the neuroinclusive initiative responsible for the BBC’s “Design for the Mind” guide. Sean also currently chairs the Neuroinclusive Organisations Network, NiON. Roxanne is the Accessibility and Inclusion Lead at Diversity and Ability.
There will be the opportunity to ask questions during the session itself, via the webinar Q&A function, but you can increase the chances of your question being selected by submitting in advance.
This is a free online event via Zoom.
Helen Musgrove | Event Chair
Director of Psychological Consulting, Lexxic
Helen Musgrove is the Director of Psychological Consulting at Lexxic, a specialist psychological consultancy focused on empowering neurodiversity in the workplace. Helen and her team of psychologists partner with leading employers across the UK and internationally to create more neuro-inclusive workplaces, delivering training and organisational change programmes. Helen became a business psychologist following a career as a Senior Civil Servant tackling some of the UK’s biggest social policy challenges. She is passionate about celebrating neurodiversity and breaking down the barriers neurodivergent individuals can experience at work.
Kay Sargent
Director of Thought Leadership, Interiors, HOK
Kay Sargent is a practicing, licensed and certified Interior Designer, Author, and Director of Thought Leadership, Interiors at HOK. With 40 years of experience, she has a passion for using design to transform how and where people work. Kay leads project teams that solve clients’ business and organizational challenges related to real estate business process, strategic planning, workplace strategy, change management and designing for inclusion.
Kay is author of “Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces” a book that addresses sensory processing, cognitive wellbeing and neurodiversity in the build environment and why and how we need to address it to create neuroinclusive spaces.
Sean Gilroy
Senior User Experience Principal
Sean is a Senior User Experience Principal at the BBC and leads the workforce accessibility and inclusive design team. Sean also co-created BBC CAPE (Creating A Positive Environment), the BBC’s award-winning Neurodiversity initiative which sought design-led innovative solutions to remove barriers to employment for Neurodivergent people. Through this work Sean is now also the current Chair for NiON, the Neuroinclusive Organisations Network centred in Greater Manchester.
Roxanne Steel
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Accessibility and inclusion Lead
Roxanne Steel (Rox) is a powerhouse in accessibility and inclusion, dedicated to designing workplaces where neurodivergent talent thrives.
As Accessibility and Inclusion Lead at Diversity & Ability, Rox transforms organisations by embedding equity-driven practices that go beyond compliance. A sought-after consultant and trainer, they champion disability rights, inclusive design, and cultural change. With a dynamic, human-centred approach (and a dash of humour), Rox equips businesses with the tools to create truly neuro-inclusive environments—where diversity isn’t just recognised but celebrated.