Meet the Speakers: Henry Deards

GAIN's theme for November, and our final theme month for 2023, is Rising Neurodivergent Talent. As usual, we're running events for both our individual and corporate members. For the first time, GAIN's Bea Richardson will moderate the discussion with our speakers.

In our third Meet the Speakers article for the Rising Neurodivergent Talent theme, we're delighted to introduce you to Henry Deards.

Henry Deards (He/Him) was diagnosed with autism as a child. This allowed him to receive support in education, but also opened him up to institutional discrimination. He overcame these barriers, graduated from Exeter University with a first in Computer Science, and has been working at J.P. Morgan Chase for the last 6 years as a software engineer. Henry receives bespoke accommodations through the firm’s autism at work program, but also supports his community as part of the program. This includes organizing coding workshops at local special education needs schools, interviewing for articles, running internal training and representing the program and firm at events. On top of his day-job and commitments to the Autism at Work program, Henry has filed two patents and runs regular training courses on coding best practices and leadership.

Rising Neurodivergent Talent: An Individual Member Event takes place virtually on Tuesday 14th November at 12:30, via Teams.

You can register for this event, and for GAIN individual membership, using this form.

Rising Neurodivergent Talent: A Corporate Member Event takes place in-person at the Swiss Re offices, London, on Tuesday 28th November at 17:30.

Employees and representatives of GAIN corporate member companies can register for this event, and for access to their GAIN member benefits, using this form.

If your company are not yet corporate members of GAIN but you would like access to this and other events, as well as benefits such as our benchmarking service, pilots, research participation and member resources, you can enquire here to ask for a call to discuss our membership benefits and pricing.