Dr Claire Norman-Maillet is a leading voice on inclusion across financial services, higher education and wider society, as a result of combining academic research, industry leadership and personal experience. Her work centres disability inclusion, particularly neurodiversity and stammering, and introduces concepts including the “fluency-value nexus” and double-masking to expose how institutional processes and systems misinterpret difference as risk. Claire’s current interdisciplinary research spans neurodiversity, communication and inclusion, with these papers selected for presentation at conferences all over the world. Claire, who stammers and has always spoken openly about it, was diagnosed with ADHD in 2025 and ASD in 2026, using her platform to highlight women receiving later diagnoses. She has founded successful initiatives since 2014 to raise awareness and currently mentors neurodiverse professionals, championing transparent and human-centred leadership.