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Matt Gupwell - Understanding people with EEES
Looking beneath struggle, stress, and the labels we attach to behaviour and performance across families, schools, and workplaces.
Most human challenges are misunderstood at first glance.
Whether someone is eight or eighty, diagnosed or not, we usually respond to the visible moment rather than the unseen causes. We reach for familiar explanations, calling it behaviour, performance, attitude, or resilience, and too quickly assume there must be a clinical answer.
Yet how often does that actually help?
How often does it deepen the problem instead?
EEES was created by Matt to offer a better starting point. It helps parents, partners, teachers, colleagues, and leaders understand what may be happening beneath the surface and shows how a more thoughtful response can change outcomes for people of any age, in any setting.
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Matt Gupwell | Neurodiversity Consultant, Speaker, Strategist & Educator
Few voices combine lived experience, clinical partnership, and professional stagecraft in the way Matt does. Indeed this is work Matt was doing long before there were awareness days, hashtags and celebrity advocates.
Matt Gupwell works with organisations to build cultures where different ways of thinking are understood, where ability is enabled, and where unnecessary disadvantage is removed. His work sits at the intersection of communication, cognition, and culture, helping organisations move beyond awareness and into meaningful, lasting change.
He has seventeen years of learning what ADHD and autism mean to others.
Seventeen years of working with people who are scared of getting it wrong, from parents to teachers, family members to managers, individuals to world-wide brands.
Seventeen years of seeing what actually helps real people, of putting others first.
Seventeen years of working with children and adults newly diagnosed and learning about themselves.
Matt is trusted by global brands, public institutions, and leadership teams to cut through confusion, not just around neurodiversity, but around performance, pressure, and human behaviour at work. His work has reached millions through keynote talks, international conferences, podcasts, and mentoring, not by chasing trends, but by addressing the realities organisations often struggle to talk about openly.
With this vast experience of working alongside neurodivergent individuals, and lived experience of ADHD, autism, and dyslexia, Matt brings rare credibility. His openness about addiction and recovery adds further insight, allowing him to speak honestly about resilience, identity, and performance under pressure in ways that resonate far beyond any single group.
He effortlessly translates complex research and clinical insight into practical, human strategies that help organisations think differently about how work is designed, how communication happens, and how people are supported. His approach is grounded in evidence and shaped by real-world experience, not theory alone.
He works in partnership with leading clinicians and academic networks to ensure every session is current, credible, and robust.
Matt’s blend of clarity, compassion, and provocation means audiences leave not just inspired, but equipped to act.
He is the host of the evidence-led TALKADHD podcast and a regular contributor to podcasts, panels, events, and media discussions, known for making complex ideas clear, useful, and grounded in reality.
Matt’s work doesn’t end when the keynote does.
It continues in conversations, shifts in thinking, and measurable change long after he has left the room.
As a consultant and trainer whose work is rooted in neurodiversity but designed for everyone, Matt’s position in this space is distinctive.
Matt Gupwell | Keynote Talks for 2026
1) Leadership with EEES?
Leadership has become more challenging as awareness of inclusion has increased.
Leaders are expected to deliver results, protect wellbeing, navigate legal risk, and create inclusive cultures, often with little more than policies and good intentions to guide them.
Leading with EEES is a leadership lens built around understanding the universal human factors that shape how people experience work under pressure. These factors influence how people manage demand, maintain capacity, interact with others, and respond to the conditions around them.
This approach was developed through years of supporting neurodivergent people, where these patterns are often felt earlier and more intensely. That work provided a clearer view of what is really happening when people struggle. But these factors are not unique to neurodivergence. Stress, illness, workload, change, expectation, and environment affect us all.
Leadership with EEES helps leaders recognise these patterns earlier, respond with greater confidence, and reduce unnecessary friction before problems escalate. It offers a way to understand people without diagnosing them, and to support performance without lowering expectations.
This is leadership that works for everyone, not just when someone is already in crisis.
Learning outcomes
Delegates will:
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understand the universal human factors that shape behaviour and performance
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recognise early signs of strain before they become formal problems
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learn to respond earlier rather than reacting later
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develop confidence to have better conversations under pressure
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see inclusion as a leadership approach rather than a specialist initiative
Key takeaways
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a shared language for understanding struggle and strain
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practical tools leaders can use immediately
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clear insight into what helps or hinders performance
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methods to support people without needing specialist knowledge
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a leadership approach that strengthens retention and cohesion
2) Managing with EEES?
Most managers want to do the right thing but are terrified of getting it wrong. They are handed labels, policies, and long lists of suggested adjustments, yet still feel unsure what to actually say on Monday morning.
Managing with EEES gives leaders a simple, human framework for understanding how any colleague functions at work without turning the conversation into a medical assessment. It helps managers move beyond tick-box adjustments and into practical problem solving based on what is happening for this individual, in this role, in this environment, right now. Developed from supporting neurodivergent people, this tool is applicable to everyone because it doesn't focus on labels, it focuses on the person.
This talk shows managers how to have confident conversations, how to separate behaviour from blame, and how to design support that protects both the person and the performance of the business.
Learning outcomes
Delegates will:
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understand why generic adjustment lists often fail in real workplaces
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gain a structured way to think about performance that reduces conflict
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learn how to have supportive conversations without becoming a clinician
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recognise the difference between behaviour, capacity and environment
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leave with practical steps that can be used immediately with any colleague
Key takeaways
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a repeatable framework for decision making that works across all roles
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confidence to talk about needs without fear of saying the wrong thing
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tools to balance compassion with accountability
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a shared language HR and managers can use together
3) Parenting with EEES?
Parents are often given labels but very little guidance on what those labels mean at 7am on a school morning, at homework time, or during another family meltdown.
Parenting with EEES offers a way to understand your child that goes beyond symptoms and traits. It helps parents look at what is happening beneath the behaviour so they can respond with compassion instead of conflict.
This session translates complex ideas into everyday family life, showing how small changes in approach can reduce overwhelm, protect relationships, and help children feel seen rather than managed.
It's also valuable for parents who are neurodivergent to recognise the same things in themselves that can often shape reactions and responses in negative ways.
Learning outcomes
Delegates will:
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understand why behaviour is often communication rather than defiance
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learn how to notice patterns instead of reacting to single moments
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recognise how home environments can help or hinder children
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gain strategies for calmer conversations and boundaries
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feel less alone and more confident in everyday parenting decisions
Key takeaways
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a simple lens for making sense of difficult family moments
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tools to reduce shame for both parent and child
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practical ideas that fit real homes, not textbook families
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a way to talk about needs without labelling a child as the problem
4) Explaining your needs with EEES?
Receiving a late life diagnosis often answers questions but frequently creates new ones. Crucially, how do you explain what this means to your partner, your manager, your friends, or even to yourself?
Communicating with EEES gives people a clear, respectful language for talking about their experience without relying on stereotypes or long clinical explanations. It helps you describe your strengths, your challenges, and the support you need in a way others can understand.
This talk is about turning diagnosis into dialogue.
Learning outcomes
Delegates will:
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learn how to explain needs without oversharing personal history
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separate identity from diagnosis
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build confidence to ask for support at work and home
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understand how to describe challenges in practical, non-medical language
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recognise strengths alongside difficulties
Key takeaways
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a simple structure for conversations with managers and family
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ways to advocate without feeling demanding
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language that focuses on solutions rather than labels
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increased confidence after diagnosis
Sweety Chanda Talent Partner ITG Group
Thanks so much for your session last week with ITG. Your presentation has left a lasting impact. Your delivery style is incredibly engaging and thought-provoking. I’ve seen firsthand how your words inspired our teams to think differently and take action.
Testimonials
Che L Corporate Fundraising and Partnerships Migrant Help
"I had the pleasure of attending a presentation by Matt, at our staff conference. His easy-to-listen-to and energetic style, coupled with a clear and impactful delivery, made the session incredibly engaging. I thoroughly recommend his expertise to anyone looking to enhance their understanding of neurodivergence."
Kate Farmer, Talent Process and Project Manager Encirc
I had the pleasure of attending one of your training days about ND in the workplace. It’s had a real positive personal impact - not only professionally to support our EDI agenda and helping individuals feel empowered and included but also individually particularly with how ND may present differently for girls. The delivery was really engaging, open discussion and a great session I’m recommending to colleagues
An Introduction for you to use.
It’s a pleasure to introduce today’s speaker, Matt Gupwell.
Matt Gupwell is a consultant, trainer, and keynote speaker whose work sits at the intersection of communication, cognition, and culture. For over seventeen years, he has worked closely with neurodivergent individuals, as well as the parents, teachers, managers, and leaders supporting them.
That experience gave Matt a unique view of what really happens when people struggle. Not just in clinical terms, but in real life. In families, classrooms, and workplaces under pressure. From this work, Matt developed the EEES model.
While EEES was shaped through supporting neurodivergent people, it is not a neurodiversity model. It is a way of understanding the human factors that affect everyone at different points in their lives, and how pressure, expectation, and environment influence how we function.
Matt brings lived experience of ADHD, autism, and dyslexia, alongside close partnerships with clinicians and academic networks. His work is trusted by global brands, public institutions, and leadership teams to move beyond awareness and into meaningful, lasting change.
Today’s talk is not about labels. It is about understanding people, and what becomes possible when we design support and systems with that understanding in mind.
Please welcome Matt Gupwell.
Matt’s requirements
Stage/Performance time, Tech/rehearsal times if required, Name of tech crew, name of showrunner (if employed), names of any VIP or persons I should be aware of.
Microphones: I always prefer a wireless microphone. I speak with my hands a lot.
Presentations and displays: I use Powerpoint for slideshows. I always bring a laptop and USB drive with the presentation on and send you a copy by email as a back up. All presentations are formatted in 1920 * 1080 format. My presentations occassionaly use audio and video, so connection to the sound system is necessary.
My incredibly complex rider: Food – I don’t eat meat or dairy. Drink – I only drink Soy milk in tea, but take coffee black. I always have a my own bottle of water on stage with me.
Where possible I like to record my talks both in person and online for my own review and future promotional work. Please state if this presents an issue.