With a BSc in Psychology from Dublin City University, Áine began her career in neuropsychology which deepened her passion for understanding how our brains work, and how being equipped with this knowledge can have a powerful effect on how we show up in our daily lives. She transitioned to the corporate world, focusing on People Operations and the employee experience. It was here she was introduced to how inclusion and belonging play a fundamental role in workplace culture and became actively involved in leadership of the employee network focused on disability, mental health, and neurodiversity.
Áine continued to pursue further education and graduated with distinction from the MSc in the Psychology and Neuroscience. This academic journey, combined with her corporate experience and leadership within employee networks, inspired Áine to make a broader impact.
She founded AM Learning, recognising her speaking and facilitation style as a key enabler in delegates awareness building and subsequent behavioural change. Her approach to professional development and strategic thinking in business emphasis the need to consider the unique style each person brings to the table, and how creating the right kind of psychologically safe environment is a catalyst for meaningful change.
Áine’s talks focus on the intersection of neurodiversity, mental wellbeing, inclusion and belonging, emphasising the importance of self-awareness, empathy and compassion as foundations for inclusive company cultures. Through Áine’s keynotes and workshops, she highlights the significance of understanding our own brains and fostering a culture of belonging through self-awareness and empathy.
To book Áine Maher, for your event, contact Front Row Speakers on +353 1 485 3991 or email welcome@frontrowspeakers.com.
Signature Keynotes
- Micro Moments, Macro Impact: Ignite Engagement Through Neurocognitive Leadership Drawing on her six-dimension Neurocognitive Leadership Framework, Áine explores why the everyday moments between leaders and their teams are where culture is actually made or broken. A fresh, evidence-based keynote for HR and L&D professionals and leadership audiences.
- Dropping the Mask: A Personal Journey Through Neurodivergence Weaving personal experience with the neuroscience of lasting change, this is a talk about identity, self-compassion, and the quiet courage of seeing your own brain through a different lens. Available as a keynote, conference talk, or facilitated discussion.
Minds of All Kinds: Neurodiversity & Neuroinclusion in Practice
- Minds of All Kinds: Neurodiversity & Neuroinclusion 101 — An engaging introduction to neurodiversity and what it means for how teams work together.
- Wired Together: The Neurodiversity of a Family System — Whether you are neurodivergent yourself, parenting alongside someone who is, or simply navigating this experience as a committed parent, this is a space for shared understanding and practical support.
- The Cost of Masking: Neurodivergent Burnout — Understanding what happens when people spend their energy performing neurotypically, and what it takes to make authenticity safe.
- Leading Different Minds: Neuroinclusive Management in Practice — Understanding neurodiversity as a leader and practical skills for managing cognitively diverse teams with confidence.
- Designing for Difference: Neuroinclusion Across the Employee Lifecycle — Embedding neuroinclusive thinking into people processes, from onboarding to performance management, for HR professionals.
- Hiring Different Minds: Neuroinclusive Recruitment in Practice — Enabling recruiters and hiring managers to design processes that genuinely work for different thinkers.
- Building Belonging: Strengthening Your Neurodiversity ERG — Moving beyond awareness into lasting influence, helping committees and champions to thrive.
Building Human-Centric Cultures: Creating Inclusive Conditions for People to Thrive
- Wired for More: Growth Mindset, Resilience and the Adaptive Brain — A session exploring how understanding the brain science behind growth mindset, stress regulation, and self-compassion builds the kind of resilience that actually sticks, for individuals and the teams and cultures they are part of.
- Mental Wellbeing in Modern Workplaces: The Neuroscience of Sustainable Performance — An honest, research-grounded session on cognitive load, burnout, and what organisations need to truly understand about how their people are coping.
- Empathy as a Leadership Superpower: The Skill Behind Every Strong Culture — A session on why empathy is not just a leadership nice-to-have but a genuine business imperative, and what leaders and teams can do to build it practically without losing themselves in the process.
- The Trust Conditions: Psychological Safety in Practice — A session on how psychological safety is built or eroded in the small moments of every working day, and what leaders and teams can do to create genuine conditions for honesty, vulnerability, and connection.
- Bias and the Brain: Bringing the Unconscious into Awareness — An evidence-based session on the brain mechanisms behind unconscious bias and how bringing automatic processes into conscious awareness creates the foundation for more equitable decisions.
- The Neuroscience of Decision-Making: Thinking Clearly in a Complex World — A practical session on what is actually happening in the brain when we make decisions under pressure, in an era of information overload, rapid change, and increasing reliance on AI, and how leaders and their teams can design better thinking conditions.
- All of Us: Inclusion, Belonging and the Dimensions of Diversity — A suite of sessions exploring specific dimensions of diversity, intersectionality, allyship, and more, always grounded in the neuroscience of belonging and what it actually takes to build cultures where every person can contribute fully.
- AI and the Future of Work: Staying Human in a Changing World — A session exploring what the rise of AI means for how we work, lead, and connect, and why understanding our uniquely human cognitive strengths becomes more important, not less, as technology continues to reshape the workplace.
“The talk went brilliantly, we were delighted to have Áine with us – our team found the talk very insightful and eye-opening. Áine is a fantastic speaker and provided a wonderful overview of neurodiversity at the right level for our team and also how to foster a neuroinclusive workplace which was exactly what we were looking for.
The mix of slides, polls, Q&A and the handout Áine provided made the session really interactive and engaging also and worked perfectly as well as being inclusive for those who attended remotely. We really appreciated Áine’s expertise and thank you for the recommendation.”
– SES AERO, Shannon
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