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The Spiky Bureau is a Melbourne-based boutique neurodivergent consultancy helping high-performing companies harness neurodivergent potential in a psychologically safe environment where all minds thrive. We exist to create pragmatic neuroinclusive frameworks to harness untapped potential by honouring neurodivergent strengths in adaptive environments where difference thrives.

Company overview

The Spiky Bureau is a women-owned and neurodivergent-led consultancy that specialises in human-centred design, systems thinking and leveraging lived experience to create informed and pragmatic frameworks.

The Spiky Bureau’s client base is primarily mid-to-large organisations across Australia and New Zealand, supporting their:

  • HR and People & Culture Teams

  • WHS and Safety Leads

  • Senior Leadership Teams

  • People Leaders

We help these organisations with:

  • Auditing and Evaluation

  • Inclusive People Processes

  • Manager Capability

  • Workplace Design

  • Psychosocial Hazard Compliance

Services

  • Recruitment auditing

    Understand the shortfalls and strengths of your candidate experience through a neurodivergent lens. Our comprehensive review examines key job advertisements, application, selection and onboarding processes to recommend priority areas and quick wins.

  • Job description review program

    Manage psychosocial hazards attributed to ambiguous and ill-defined roles with systematic review and implementation of clear and tangible job descriptions. Our guidance redefines these as blueprints to develop high-performing employees in alignment with ISO45003.

  • Policy and procedure audit

    Gain actionable insight to understand how your systems may inadvertently create barriers for neurodivergent employees, causing harm to wellbeing and holding back their full potential. We assess how your people processes impact your organisation’s exposure to psychosocial risks and incidental bias or disadvantage.

  • Workplace Design

    Physical and organisational environments assessed for sensory and cognitive load. We create bespoke roadmaps for organisations to understand their key priorities and a practical plan of how to get there.

  • Build engaging and inclusive hiring models

    Interviews often frame skilled storytellers in a favourable light that quickly dulls once part of the team. Our frameworks reject the tried, failed and repeated system in favour of adaptable, purposeful and evidence-based interview methods.

  • Leadership development programs

    Delve beyond basic training to equip your leaders with the knowledge, tools and confidence to lead neurodivergent employees. Our programs are designed for longevity and truly engrained psychological safety, not a check box. We empower leaders with compassion, specific guidance and resources to embed inclusive management frameworks and harness unique skillsets.

  • Workshops, webinars and lunch & learns

    Equip your HR function, people leaders and their teams with the knowledge and tools to foster a psychologically safe workplace. Our sessions are designed for impact, we provide your workforce with the clarity to communicate intentionally and effectively, adapt to accommodate strengths and normalise support needs.

  • e-Learning module development

    Embed a neuroinclusion lens in your digital onboarding programs with tailored learnings to reiterate organisation values, broaden understanding and emphasise difference as strength.

What makes The Spiky Bureau different

Neuroinclusive change cannot come without neurodivergent lived experience. Our autistic pattern recognition is integral to assessing blind spots you wouldn’t otherwise know were there. An ADHD lens on the world equips us with the innovative and creative solutions needed to tackle deeply engrained pain points and enact change.

The Spiky Bureau says the quiet part out loud, we want everyone to understand. Period. We reject the normalised malaise of lacklustre consultancy partnerships that hide behind jargon and polished slides. We meet organisations where they are to never compromise on understanding because we believe understanding common ground and shared knowledge is the foundation for inclusion and concrete action.

We work on driving performance and risk equally. Neuroinclusion isn't a feel good exercise or a compliance piece. It’s about understanding different ways our brains process information to better support our workforce, so you can stop leaving capability on the table.

We don't do tick box exercises and we’re fundamentally against awareness for awareness's sake. If it's not connected to understanding the current state to enact change in how work is designed or managed, we're probably not the right fit.

Area of expertise

  • Neuroinclusion strategy and implementation

  • Psychosocial hazard audits and compliance

  • Inclusive hiring and onboarding design

  • Manager capability for neurodivergent teams

  • Workplace sensory and cognitive load assessment

  • Neurodiversity in the workplace

  • Work health and safety obligations for psychological risk

  • Retention and performance in cognitively diverse teams

  • Awareness and understanding of:

    • Autism

    • AuDHD

    • Dyslexia

    • Dyspraxia

    • Dyscalculia

    • Dysgraphia

    • Synesthesia

    • Tourettes Syndrome

    • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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