Why financial planning needs to wake up to neurodiversity

Finova Money’s Anna Butcher launches the Uniquely Wired Network

Isabel Baxter
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Neurodiversity is already present across financial services – among employees, advisers and clients. Anna Butcher, founder of the Uniquely Wired Network, believes the profession needs to stop relying on stereotypes and start adapting to the people it serves, writes Isabel Baxter

Anna Butcher has spent more than a decade in financial services, progressing from an entry-level role to managing director at Sound Financial before moving into operations at advice firm Finova Money. Throughout her career, she has become repeatedly frustrated watching talented people struggle in environments not designed to support them. "I hate watching brilliant people burn out, check out, just completely detach from what's going on because they're not in environments that can support them," Butcher shares. As someone who is neurodivergent herself, Butcher became increasingly co...

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