Inspiring Talk with prize winning cellist
Inspiring Talk with prize winning cellist
Life experience Neurodiversity Inspiring woman Hidden disabilities
Elisabeth Wiklander
Elisabeth Wiklander is a prize-winning cellist, working at the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Elisabeth is autistic and a Neurodiversity Advocate.
As a neurodiversity advocate, Elisabeth is passionate about depathologising human cognitive differences and promoting neurodivergent peoples’ rights through the appreciative lens of the neurodiversity paradigm.
Her talk will give a window into her life as autistic and information about neurodiversity with work-related challenges and what we can do to reach greater inclusion and equal opportunity.
She also discusses why it is important to balance the currently dominating medical model of disability with the social model of disability when talking about neurodivergencies: a mind-shift that can help employers become closer allies to neurodivergent individuals and help employees unlock their full potential.
About Elisabeth Wiklander
Prize-winning cellist Elisabeth Wiklander studied music performance at the University of Gothenburg and finished her Master of Music with honours at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 2008. Since 2013, she works at the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Elisabeth is also a teacher at the institution Ljungskile Folkhögskola in Sweden and has taught orchestral performance at Music Conservatoires in Amsterdam, London and New York.
Elisabeth is autistic and a Neurodiversity Advocate. She has supported people touched by autism since 2006 and is a Cultural Ambassador for the National Autistic Society in the UK. She has been on an advisory panel at the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge and features in several articles and books. High profile media-appearances include a TEDx talk, The Daily Politics Show (BBC live), the program “Superungar” and the documentary “Diagnosresan” for Swedish Television. Elisabeth is involved in Neurodiversity projects worldwide and has given presentations to companies like Ubisoft, Ultranauts and PVH Corp.
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