About us

Unmasking Potential is a neurodiversity led workplace culture consultancy: training, consultancy and resources for employers, schools and organisations. Other disabilities are covered too, well beyond a baseline level. Many of the adaptations for neurodiversity benefit everyone.

What we believe

When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

Our values

• Strength comes in many forms.
• Not understanding something doesn't make it untrue.
• Celebrate strengths and positives.
• Everyone makes mistakes, and learning from them is what matters.
• Honest communication is key.

Who we are

Rea Farrimond

I have twenty years of experience across the NHS, private healthcare, the private sector providing hardware and software for people who need reasonable adjustments, and the Ministry of Justice. I hold a law degree, and in the Probation Service I led staff networks for disability and race equality, trained Mental Health Allies, and worked in the East of England Regional Equalities Team. As an AuDHD person, I have lived what happens when a workplace gets it wrong. Too often the person gets blamed when the real problem is the environment, and that's why I do this work. What I do best is people: building them up and helping them see their strengths.

Rob

My husband Rob backs me on the systems side. He started as an electrical apprentice in 2007 and has worked his way up to senior leadership in facilities management, building services and engineering. He can hold his own in the boardroom and in the engineers' tea room, because he has worked in both. Like a lot of autistic people with ADHD, he spent years masking at work, and he's not doing it any more.

Together

Rob and I have seen the same problem from two sides: small businesses and organisations full of good people, held back by admin, by systems that don't fit, and by workplaces that make people hide who they are. I lead on culture and Rob backs me with the systems know-how. We started Unmasking Potential to bring big organisation know-how to small businesses, at a price they can afford, and to help them and their people achieve as much as they can.