Date

March 17, 2026

Time

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM -  Welcome from Tanya Macleod & Opening Session with Mr. Paul Constance

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Session 1

  • Workshop #1 - The 6 Principles for Inclusion
  • Workshop #2 - Neuro-Inclusive Performance Conversations: Practical Tools for Clear, Equitable Feedback

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM - Networking & Coffee Break 

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM - Session 2 

  • Workshop #1 - The 6 Principles for Inclusion
  • Workshop #2 - Neuro-Inclusive Performance Conversations: Practical Tools for Clear, Equitable Feedback

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM- Event End & Networking

Attendees are welcome to attend both workshop sessions. Because Session 2 repeats the workshops from Session 1, you can choose to attend the workshops in the order that you prefer.

Refreshments and light snacks will be provided.

Location

The Ampersand

300, 112 - 4TH AVENUE SW, Conference space, and Rooms A&B (2nd floor)

Join us at The Ampersand  for Untapped | NEUROinclusive Workforce Solutions! Learn more about the benefits of workplace inclusion, and engage in meaningful conversations with like-minded professionals. Enjoy delicious food, and join insightful discussions on diversity. Let's raise a glass to diversity, inclusion, and the pursuit of a more equitable future. See you there!

 

Workshops

Developed by The Sinneave Family Foundation, The 6 Principles for Inclusion is a practical framework designed to support neuroinclusion in the workplace. These principles will help you build confidence in identifying and reducing barriers for neurodivergent individuals in the workplace. In this session, we’ll explore each of the Six Principles - Communication, Connection, Emotion, Flexibility, Structure, and Environment - and discuss practical strategies you can apply with each one to create a more neuroinclusive workplace. Participants will leave with tools, language, and actionable strategies to better support not only neurodivergent colleagues, but everyone you work with.

Performance management is one of the most common friction points in neurodiverse workplaces. Differences in communication style, sensory processing, executive function, or regulation can easily be misinterpreted as attitude, disengagement, or lack of capability.
This session focuses on the how of neuro-inclusive leadership. Participants will learn how to deliver feedback, address behaviour concerns, and manage performance in ways that uphold expectations while reducing harm, confusion, and unintended bias.
Using real workplace examples and before-and-after scripts, we will walk through a clear Neuro-Inclusive Feedback Framework designed to increase clarity, accountability, and team trust.
 

Speaker

Tanya McLeod
Tanya McLeod
President
Sinneave Family Foundation
Tanya McLeod (she/her) is President of The Sinneave Family Foundation in Calgary, Alberta; a national organization committed to providing value to the community by coordinating and investing in a portfolio of purposeful initiatives and projects aimed at enhancing opportunities in education, employment and housing for Autistic youth and adults. Tanya is a member of Autism Alberta’s Alliance Planning Committee and the Champion for Employment. Tanya is pleased to lead the National EmploymentWorks Project that supports working age Autistic Canadians to prepare for, get and keep jobs. She also champions Worktopia, an initiative to advance neuroinclusion in the workplace and is pleased to support the development of a provincial network for employment inclusion – the Alberta Employment First Network. She is a Certified Healthcare Executive and a decorated 20-year veteran, with a Master Degree in Health Administration, a Graduate Certificate in Health Systems Leadership, and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Materials Engineering.
Paul Constance
Paul Constance
President
Lloyd Sadd Insurance & Founder Lil E Coffee Cafe
After having built a highly successful practice from the ground up to become one of the leading brokers in Canada, Paul Constance partnered with Lloyd Sadd in March 2011 to open our Calgary office. Paul carries with him over 18 years of experience in the insurance industry. He has his FCIP and CRM designations and he was awarded the Chairman’s Prize for Top Graduate in Canada. Clients enjoy his energetic and aggressive approach to solving their risk management needs, which enables them to focus on growing their corporations while he becomes their outsourced risk manager.

Being part of the community has always been important to Paul, from coaching minor hockey and lacrosse, taking his staff to volunteer at the Food Bank and Habitat for Humanity, building homes for the homeless in Mexico and participating in Hockey for the Homeless Charity. In 2021 Paul attended an EO Global Leadership Academy and fueled by his passion for his daughter Ella who has down syndrome, the event sparked an idea to start a not-for-profit charity organization called Lil E Coffee Café. This vision is now a reality. Lil E is up and running and much more than a coffee café, it is brewing greatness by providing meaningful and productive employment opportunities to individuals with intellectual and development disabilities. Lil E currently has two locations in Canada, in Calgary and Toronto, along with two more locations in the works. Lil E BHAG (big hairy audacious goal) is to provide 10,000 career experiences!

Outside of the office he enjoys spending time with his family, traveling and staying active with sports such as hockey, golf, running and cycling. He is the past President and a past Board Member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and member of the Sinneave Foundation committee.
Emma Duffy
Emma Duffy
Workforce Solutions Lead
Sinneave Family Foundation
Emma Duffy (She/Her) is the Workforce Solutions Lead at The Sinneave Family Foundation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Community Rehabilitation & Disability Studies and a Master of Management from the University of Calgary. With nearly a decade of experience working in non-profit organizations across diverse industries ranging from health, environmental, and tech sectors, Emma brings a strong interdisciplinary perspective to her work. Emma leads the NEUROinclusive Workforce Solutions service, supporting Canadian employers in creating neuroinclusive workplaces through practical and actionable strategies.
Fia-Lynn Crandall
Fia-Lynn Crandall
Creator
Natural Design™
Fia-Lynn Crandall (she/her) is the co-founder of Scale Naturally and the creator of Natural Design™, a proprietary profiling tool that helps leaders and teams perform at their full capacity while avoiding burnout and cultivating well-being. Fia-Lynn is neurodivergent, queer, and has forged her own path across 20+ years as an entrepreneur and a Mechanical Engineer. She knows firsthand what it means to navigate systems that weren’t built for difference. She now works to help others build new systems to create healthy workplace cultures - rooted in care, authenticity, and the intelligence of nature.
Mak Rogers
Mak Rogers
Makaylah Rogers (they/he) is a passionate Mental Health Advocate, Social Impact Entrepreneur, Speaker, and Facilitator of over 13 years. As a neurodivergent, queer, non-binary trauma survivor, Mak brings a lived understanding of what it means to navigate systems that weren’t built for them. Their work is rooted in the belief that no one should have to trade their well-being or authenticity to belong. Through their innovative Empowered Culture of Care Framework, they help organizations move beyond performative inclusion to embed mental health, empathy, and systemic care into the heart of workplace culture.