Professor Amanda Kirby is the founder and CEO of Do-IT Solutions, a tech for a good company, delivering innovative web neurodiversity tools for education and employment, accredited training courses at all levels and for different organisations globally, and consultancy services to guide organisations to become neuroinclusive. She is also the chair of the ADHD Foundation and works closely with many other charities working in this area.
Amanda is an emeritus professor at the University of South Wales and an honorary professor at Cardiff University. She has clinical and research experience and founded and ran a transdisciplinary clinical and research team for 20 years relating to neurodiversity. She is a qualified GP and has a Ph.D. relating to emerging adulthood and neurodiversity.
She has written 9 books and more than 100 research papers in the field and her latest book was published in 2021:'Neurodiversity at Work, Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity with a Neurodiverse Workforce'. She has a new book on Neurodiversity in Education coming out later in 2022.
Amanda has lived experience of neurodiversity as a parent of neurodivergent children, and grandchildren.