Better teams start with understanding how different brains work
I work with individuals navigating neurodivergence, and with organisations that want their teams to communicate more effectively. No clinical jargon. No disclosure required. Just practical, evidence-based work that makes a difference.
"All brains are different. Once a team understands that, most communication problems dissolve, and productivity follows."
Twenty-five years of senior leadership roles in the Film & TV industry taught me a lot.
Understanding neurodivergence taught me the rest.
As Managing Director of a B-Corp film and TV production services company, I spent years trying to build a culture where people could be themselves. I brought in communication trainers, facilitators, and experts. Nothing worked.
Then a friend came in to practise a TEDx talk about understanding her own neurodivergence. Something shifted. Masks started coming off. For the first time, people felt safe. The culture began to change - not because of a training programme, but because of understanding.
I've since retrained as an ADHD coach and neurodivergence consultant, completed an MSc in Psychology at Birkbeck, and worked with organisations across film, television, education, and the private sector. I'm also AuDHD myself. This means I bring lived experience alongside professional expertise to everything I do.
I work with individuals navigating late diagnosis, and with organisations that want their teams to communicate better, retain talent, and stop losing good people to a system that wasn't designed for them.
MSc Psychology, Birkbeck University of London (BPS accredited)
CPD Accredited ADHD Coach
Positive Intelligence (PQ) Coach - Harvard research framework
25 years senior leadership, UK film & television industry
Co-founder, NeuroJungle (neurodivergence consultancy, creative industries)
About Sam
How I can help
Working with individuals and organisations
I offer 1:1 ADHD and neurodivergence coaching for individuals, and bespoke consultancy and training for teams and organisations. Both are grounded in the same insight: when people understand how different brains work, almost everything gets easier.
1:1 ADHD & Neurodivergence Coaching
Individual coaching for adults navigating ADHD, autism, or a complex neurodivergent profile - including those who are newly diagnosed, on a waiting list, or simply trying to understand why certain things feel so hard.
I have a particular specialism in working with women in the creative industries who have been diagnosed late and are reframing years of unexplained struggle in light of a new understanding of their brain.
- Free 30-minute introductory call
- Strengths-based, practical, non-judgmental
- Positive Intelligence (PQ) framework where relevant
- Support with workplace disclosure and reasonable adjustments
- Packages from 5+ sessions
Organisational Consultancy & Team Training
Bespoke neurodivergence consultancy for teams and organisations. I help organisations move from reactive reasonable adjustments to proactive inclusion, starting with the insight that most communication breakdown is a cognitive mismatch, not a people problem.
No disclosure required. No clinical language. Practical, evidence-based work that helps teams understand how different brains communicate.
- Scoping call and organisational needs assessment
- Bespoke training - half-day to full-day, online or in-person
- Manager and HR-specific sessions
- Policy review and reasonable adjustments guidance
- Evaluation and follow-up
Free Introductory Call
Not sure which service is right for you? A free 30-minute call gives us both a chance to understand whether working together makes sense, and if so, what that might look like.
There is no obligation and no sales pitch. It is simply a conversation.
Speaking & Keynotes
Available for conference talks, panel discussions, and keynote addresses on neurodivergence in the workplace, ADHD in women and the creative industries, and building genuinely inclusive teams.
Previous speaking engagements include WFTV, ScreenSkills, Film London, Tell Jane HR, Searchlight HR Forum and FOCUS 2025.
- Keynote and panel speaking
- Lunch-and-learn sessions for staff
- Conference and event appearances
Who I work with
People who feel like they're fighting against their own brain - and organisations that want to support all employees to thrive.
Late-diagnosed women
Particularly those in the film and tv industry or other creative industries who are processing a late diagnosis of ADHD, autism, or both, and rebuilding their understanding of themselves in light of it.
Creative professionals
Leaders, freelancers, and senior professionals in film, television, and the wider creative sector who are struggling with thriving in an industry which is simultaneously perfect and impossible for how their brain works.
Anyone on a waiting list
You don't need a formal diagnosis to begin coaching. If you're waiting for assessment or simply want to understand how your brain works before going down a clinical route, coaching can help now.
HR teams & managers
HR professionals and line managers who want to respond meaningfully to neurodivergence in their team, going beyond legal compliance to genuinely effective support.
Organisations with team friction
Teams experiencing persistent communication breakdown, disengagement, or interpersonal conflict that standard management approaches haven't resolved.
NHS, public sector & charities
Organisations committed to inclusive workplace practice and supporting neurodivergent staff and service users.
In practice
What changes when teams understand each other
Case study · Culture & Leadership
Where conventional training fails, you need to think outside the box
As Managing Director, I spent years trying to build a culture where people felt safe to be themselves. I tried communication programmes and professional facilitators. For a team that had deliberately chosen careers behind the camera, none of it landed.
Then a friend came in to practise a TEDx talk about her own neurodivergence. It was short and unrehearsed. But something shifted. Masks started coming off. For the first time, people had the language, and the permission, to stop pretending. When employees feel safe enough to unmask and be themselves, the whole culture changes for the better.
Case study · Team Communication
From friction to flow - without anyone needing to disclose
A team was experiencing persistent friction - irritability, disengagement, people quietly deciding it was easier to work alone. Tasks weren't getting done. Relationships were fraying.
When examined through an ND lens, the cause was clear. A detailed email that one person considered thorough was experienced by a neurodivergent colleague as impenetrable. The defensive response wasn't a personality clash, it was cognitive overwhelm, misread as hostility.
I brought the team together and we discussed different working styles, eventually meeting in the middle. No diagnoses were required. No disclosures necessary. Just honest conversation and the friction dissolved.
Client voices
What clients say
My coaching sessions with Sam have been really helpful. Together we've worked through figuring out how my ADHD shows up in my day-to-day life and work, and looked into the things I can do to work with my brain rather than against it. When I was offered a new role, Sam was amazing in helping me navigate the conversation around being neurodivergent with my new employer.
Systems Architect
We invited Sam to speak at Searchlight’s 2026 HR Forum, where she delivered a fantastic session to a room full of senior HR leaders. Her talk was engaging, insightful, and offered a fresh, much‑needed perspective on neurodiversity in the workplace. The feedback from our delegates was overwhelmingly positive.
Cathy Alford, Managing Director, Searchlight
Sam’s session changed the way to think about the subject and how it impacts the industry. She was so engaging and thoroughly enjoyable to listen to. It provided useful framing, ways to get it across to managers and to think about how to make the workplace more accessible for all and to normalise neurodiversity - it’s not an illness was very impactful.
HR Professional
Sam’s session was so insightful, interesting, and presented in a most engaging way. It provoked a different way of looking at the subject and how it can be better harnessed in the industry. It easily could have been longer!
Film & TV Industry
Previous clients
A selection of organisations I've worked with
Coaching, training, and consultancy delivered across the creative industries, education, the charity sector, and beyond.
Film & Television
Education
Charity & Third Sector
Corporate & Private Sector
Public Sector
Speaking engagements include industry events, HR conferences, and bespoke sessions for production companies and organisations across the UK.
Get in touch
Let's have a chat
If you're wondering whether coaching or consultancy might help, for yourself or your organisation, a free 20-minute call is the simplest way to find out. No obligation, no pitch.
Or send me an email to sam@sammargaritis.com
For organisational commissions, an initial scoping call is always free.