Crossroad Neurodiversity Services
Connected Colleagues Consulting
at Crossroad Neurodiversity Services
If you’re like most leaders, you are stuck between wanting to make progress with employee engagement and retention, and knowing how to make it happen. Have you considered neurodiversity as a driving factor?
Healthcare, education, and non-profit organizations need to get unstuck - that's where we come in.
Crossroad Neurodiversity Services specializes in partnering with organizations seeking growth in retaining, promoting, or servicing neurodivergent, and other historically marginalized people.
With lower turnover, plus increased employee and client satisfaction, mental wellness, productivity, and value and ethical alignment, our partners are equipped to pursue their service missions more effectively.
Connect with us for:
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Professional and Leadership Development
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Work Culture and Organizational Consulting
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Executive Coaching
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Strategic Planning
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Keynotes
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Research and Evaluation
We cherish all our partners who choose to pursue inclusive, neurodiversity-affirming work and learning environments. Here are a few:
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Comcast/NBCUniversal
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Underwriters Laboratories RDU
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National Maternal Mental Health Hotline
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ANCOR
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Autism Society North Carolina
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Duke University
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Emory University
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North Carolina State University
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Appalachian State University
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Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD)
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Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work
Meet Your Principal Consultant
An award-winning educator and mental health executive, and respected neurodiversity and disability self-advocate, Dr. Janelle Johnson guides leaders in fostering healthy connection and collaboration across difference, no matter the barrier. Dr. Johnson is an educational psychologist, licensed marriage and family therapist, and founder of Crossroad Neurodiversity Services, a consulting and therapy practice in North Carolina. Her passion and pioneering methods for serving underrepresented families led her to become the first Black President of the NC Association of Marriage and Family Therapy in its 50 year history. Dr. Johnson was also recently published as one of 30 international thought leaders on health equity in an Oxford University Press anthology. Her research focuses on approaches to institutional policy and practice change that center intersectional neurodivergent and disabled stakeholders in higher education and healthcare. Dr. Johnson provides engaging consulting, training, and keynotes for leaders of helping professions internationally. In her free time you’ll find her eating delicious food, hiking with her family, and watching Korean dramas.
Janelle Johnson, PhD, MA, LMFT-S
Mental Health Executive | Work Culture Consultant | Neurodiversity & Disability Researcher
RFK Jr. & Mental Health | the roots of change agency
How We Collaborate to Craft A Winning Work and Learning Culture
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Holistic Systems Thinking
Relationship is the meaning of life - and work is no exception. We teach leaders how to approach systemic problems with systemic solutions by centering wellness using the power of healthy relationship to foster The Legacy Mentality.
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Professional Development and Workshops
You want everyone on the same page when it comes to accomplishing goals, but you're not sure exactly where to start. We'll help you ensure buy-in remains solid using education to spark Groupthink for Good.
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Implementation Plans
Collaborating with your leaders using our 3A Multi-systemic Framework, we guide your organization in creating and implementing goals for neurodiversity-affirming work and learning culture that address personnel, policy and procedures, transforming your organization into a place where anyone would love to learn and work.
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Neurodiversity Cultural Lens Development
Equity is key to a winning work culture. It takes a healthy perspective on humans to make it happen that doesn't scare everyone away or burn people out. We make it happen by delivering trauma-sensitive, culturally sustaining development tools to shape and sharpen your approach to neurodiversity-affirming work and learning.
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Data Collection
Every organization is different, but with the right data leaders can determine what will work best in cultivating intercultural connection. We can gather qualitative data using our Collective Conversation® method, quantitative data using the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (ICS), and customized research and evaluation designs using our Neurodivergent Experiences Transformed (NExT) approach.
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Work-Life Harmony
Nothing works well without rest, enrichment and support - and inclusivity work is no exception. We assess how relational wellness and cross-neurotype communication skills are impacting your goal for a winning work culture. To address and prevent burnout, we guide you in honoring your humanity with built-in wellness elements, as well as executive coaching.