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Clare Kumar is a neuroinclusive design strategist working with organizations to help create safer containers so people to live, work, learn, and play with ease.

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Neuroinclusive design strategist Clare Kumar helps organizations to help create safer containers through neurological safety so people to live, work, learn, and play with ease. After being "designed out" too many times, she speaks up against the unintentional squandering of human potential - and for the creation of safe and accessible spaces, culture, and experience to enable everyone to make their richest contributions.

Clare facilitates teams to co-create their future of work with compassion-infused compromise, all while respecting neurodiversity and humanity. Clare explores these topics with innovative thinkers as the host of the Happy Space® podcast. She also serves as the Canadian Regional Director of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower program, bettering daily life for those with non-visible challenges.

 

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Neuroinclusive design strategist Clare Kumar helps organizations to help create safer containers through neurological safety so people to live, work, learn, and play with ease. After being "designed out" too many times, she speaks up against the unintentional squandering of human potential - and for the creation of safe and accessible spaces, culture, and experience to enable everyone to make their richest contributions. She draws on her strengths as an HSP, (a highly sensitive person) and as a late-diagnosed autistic with a side order of ADHD, to be an engaging speaker and insightful consultant. She’s thrilled to be both on stage and screen talking to thousands, or speaking to individuals and small groups.

Clare's fifteen-year corporate career includes leadership roles spanning marketing, business development, finance, internal communication, culture change, sales support, and product development. She has served in a variety of environments, from start-ups to leading multi-national companies, both in Canada and abroad. Clare worked flexibly with everyone from front-line staff to the C-suite, and in a variety of cultures. Since starting her own company, Streamlife, Clare has become one of Canada's most renowned organizing, productivity, and hybrid work thought leaders offering insights, inspiration, strategies, and tools to support leaders, employees, and entrepreneurs having greater efficiency, effectiveness, and, perhaps most importantly, enjoyment. Clare believes in having fun while getting things done!

She is proud to have served sectors including education (McMaster University, University of Waterloo, Niagara College, TMU (formerly Ryerson University), MaRS, Ontario Centres of Excellence), professional services (Crowe Soberman Chartered Accountants LLP, Yale PGC LLP), technology (Facebook Canada, BlueCat), banking (TD Canada Trust, RBC), health (Canadian Blood Services, Canadian Institute of Health Services), food (Mars) and non-profits (the MS Society, Developmental Services Ontario).

Frequently sought after for her expertise in productivity, organization, work-life integration, and neuroinclusion, Clare has been featured in publications such as Fast Company, Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Living, and Reader's Digest. A regular on lifestyle and news television, she has appeared on The Social (regular), The Marilyn Denis Show (regular), e-talk, Breakfast Television, Canada AM, CBC Radio (regular), The Morning Show, and CityNews. Drawing on her marketing experience and love of performance, Clare has served as a brand ambassador or spokesperson for brands such as Intel, Samsung, Canadian Tire, Ford, Whirlpool, Acco Brands, Staples, Rubbermaid, and Neatfreak.

Clare co-created the patented and widely distributed clothing organizing system, Pliio®. She also wrote The Organized Family – Planning Calendar, and The Balanced Life Wall Calendar.

She holds a B.Sc. in biology from McMaster University, a Diploma in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from Royal Roads University.  Clare is a proud member of CAPS - the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, an Associate Certified Coach with ICF - the International Coaching Federation, and a longtime member of both Professional Organizers in Canada and the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals.

She welcomes all those interested in the intersection of productivity and inclusivity to tune into the Happy Space® podcast..

 

ONE MINUTE INTRODUCTION

Welcome, neuroinclusive design strategist, Clare Kumar. Clare works with organizations to create more hospitable environments through "neurological safety". Looking at space, culture, and experience holistically, she improves accessibility, enabling more people to make their richest contribution. She is an international speaker, consultant, inventor, and host of the Happy Space Podcast - all about designing neuroinclusion.

Clare is an award-winning entrepreneur and sought-after media contributor; you may have heard her on CBC Radio talking about the future of work, and appearing on news and lifestyle shows such as The Social and The Marilyn Denis Show. She has appeared in Fast Company, The Huffington Post, The Report on Business, Maclean's, The Toronto Star and more.

Clare works with companies you’ll know such as Staples, Whirlpool, and TD Bank, and organizations like CPA Ontario, Queen’s University, and McMaster. She is also the Regional Director in Canada growing the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower program, helping the daily lives of those with non-visible disabilities.

Clare's highly sensitive temperament is behind her superpower of noticing little things that make a big difference. She invites you to do the same today!