Building High Performance Culture Without Burning People Out
Keynote speaker and consultant helping organisations embed neurodiversity, psychological safety and sustainable performance into the way they work.
Trusted Across Global Brands & High Performance Environments
Before founding NeuroTalks, Jodie Steele spent over two decades working within high-performance commercial environments across the UK and internationally. Her career spans global brands, major events, and complex stakeholder environments providing first-hand insight into the pressures, expectations, and realities that shape modern workplaces.
This commercial grounding is what makes her work today both credible and practical bridging lived experience with real-world organisational challenges.
Logos represent organisations Jodie has worked with across her career in various capacities including events, brand activations, partnerships and commercial projects. This does not imply direct employment or endorsement.
I don’t just talk about these environments. I’ve lived them.
Most conversations around neurodiversity stay at awareness level.
Jodie Steele’s work goes further.
With over 20 years of experience inside high-pressure commercial environments, she understands the reality organisations are navigating — performance expectations, leadership pressure, and the hidden cost to people.
Her work bridges lived experience with practical, real-world application — helping organisations move from awareness into meaningful, sustainable change.
What Working With Jodie Looks Like
Whether on stage, in the room, or embedded within teams, this work is designed to shift thinking, build confidence, and create meaningful change that lasts beyond the session.
What People Say
Real feedback from organisations and professionals experiencing Jodie’s work first hand.
“One of the most impactful sessions we’ve delivered for our clients.
Jessica Moini Elom-Ogbodo
Jodie combines lived experience with real commercial understanding, translating neurodiversity into practical actions leaders can actually implement.
Her approach goes far beyond awareness, it drives real change.”
Founder – The kindness Catalogue
“It was a real pleasure hearing Jodie speak at the RACE event in London.
Pamela Ajogbeje BA
Her openness and honesty were genuinely powerful, especially her message on resilience and learning to work with yourself.
It was a thought-provoking and important conversation.”
AI Leadership & strategy – Keynote Speaker
“Jodie’s presentation was emotional and inspiring, drawing on lived experience she applies her commercial background to offer sound and realistic advice for businesses and individuals to take on board.”
Justin Pover
Business Management & Operations Specialist – Staffordshire University
“Jodie knows her subject. The lived experience is real, the passion is unmistakable, and the authenticity is something you cannot fake.”
Peter Gregory
Neurodivergent Business Coach (ILM Level 7) | Speaker
Signature Keynotes
Every keynote is tailored to your organisation, your people and the reality they operate in.
Explore all signature talks →Your highest performing people are burning out and you don’t know why
The hidden intelligence in your organisation
Stop fixing people. Fix the environment
The future of work isn’t AI, it’s human
Confidence is not the problem, understanding is
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Why Book Jodie
I’m usually brought in when something isn’t working.
Not on paper – In reality.
When teams feel it.
When leaders feel it.
When performance starts to slip.
And no one can quite explain why.
Executive & Leadership Rooms
Where big decisions are made under pressure — and people impact is often missed.
Culture & People Strategy
When culture sounds right on paper — but doesn’t show up day to day.
Learning & Development
Where people are taught how to perform — but not always how to think or communicate.
High Pressure Systems
Sectors where decision making, clarity and human factors directly influence outcomes, risk and responsibility.
Conferences & Stages
Where audiences don’t want theory — they want something real.
