We help companies become a destination for neurodivergent talent.

Since 2009, we have partnered with clients wanting a neurodiverse workplace by providing inclusion
and technology solutions that benefit from our autistic DNA.
An auticon consultant works at her desk

Creating a neuroinclusive workplace is not just the right thing to do: it’s a smart business decision.

As the largest majority-autistic company in the world, we have been delivering exceptional IT solutions harnessing the distinctive skills of our neurodivergent talent since 2009. We are proud to be living proof that neurodiversity works at work.

Our comprehensive neuroinclusion services and unique lived experience are enabling forward-thinking organisations to attract, retain and reap the benefits of neurodivergent talent: driving the people sustainability agenda, providing a competitive advantage, and creating an enviable inclusive culture that delivers both economic and social value.

Changing lives together

We believe affecting change in one life is the starting point for changing society. We therefore measure our social performance through the difference auticon makes to the lives of our autistic colleagues, the impact on our customer organisations, and the role we play in creating awareness of neurodiversity in society.

Between 15-20% of the global population are neurodivergent. 2% are estimated to be autistic. Despite many autistic people being talented, qualified and keen to work, only 29% of autistic people are in full time work. Within the autistic workforce, a vast majority are under-employed, working in jobs that they are over-qualified or over-skilled for. 

Feel they can be their authentic self at work 82%
Feel valued for who they are at auticon 82%
Improved wellbeing 80%
Feel more confident 80%
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Our vision and purpose

To build a more inclusive world.

Our mission

Address the inequalities in employment for neurodivergent adults and showcase the strengths of neurodiversity in society.

Our values

Our values pervade our daily operations and our relationships internally and to the outside world. They act as rules of conduct and characterise how we do business.

  • Inclusive: We are changing the world for and with the neurodivergent, with the spirit ‘nothing about us, without us’. We challenge ourselves to raise the bar on inclusion in everything we do.
  • Human-focused: We operate with a human focus to create an improved quality of life for our employees. We prize individual differences and put people first.
  • Inspiring: We strive to be inspiring for our customers, employees, stakeholders and the society in what we do and how we make it happen.
  • Solution-oriented: We are flexible and solution-oriented, open to new ideas and never afraid to try them.
  • Value creating: We create social and economic value through operating a commercially sustainable business with a strong social mission.

Autism is not a processing error,
it's a different operating system.

Want to know how we can transform your business through neurodiversity?

Global Leadership Team

Bodo Mann

Bodo Mann

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director

Over the last 20 years Bodo has held senior leadership roles, and worked extensively with Boards, CEOs and Senior Executives from global blue-chip organisations across Australasia and Europe.  He is passionate about building innovative social impact businesses, which are purpose driven and shine through neurodiversity. Bodo is excited and proud to be part of the global auticon family, whose primary purpose is to employ talented consultants on the autism spectrum, while providing value adding technology consulting services and cognitive strengths to blue chip clients.

Meredith Ward

Meredith Ward

Lead Neuro-Inclusion Specialist

In addition to being a mother of an autistic child, Meredith has 20 years’ experience working for several well know NGOs that have a focus on providing better outcomes for autistic people. Meredith is truly passionate about providing a better future for those on the spectrum and communicating the valuable contribution they can make to businesses.

Ingrid Hammendorp

Ingrid Hammendorp

Finance Director

Ingrid is a Certified Tax Professional with over 20 years’ experience across different industries. Ingrid has a personal connection to neuro diversity, as she is a devoted mother to her adult son, who has been diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 4.

Dr. Ivonne Ranisch

Dr. Ivonne Ranisch

Commercial Director

Ivonne has a passion for bringing diversity into businesses and helping them harnessing the benefits. With a background in Logistics and supply chain she explored in her doctoral thesis ‘Women in maritime law’, why there are so few and what needs to be done to change this.

Murray Woolfson

Murray Woolfson

Technical Director

Having spent the last 20 years working within the IT industry, Murray has built a successful track record across core domains of Product and Project management, Software delivery, quality assurance, information security management and data and analytics. As the Technical Director Murray supports and guides auticon consultants through a pathway of success and ensures clients expectations are exceeded.

International investors

"Businesses like auticon are true trailblazers!" - Sir Richard Branson

Investors include Ferd, Autism Impact Fund, Ananda Impact Ventures, KOIS, Felix Porsche, Sir Richard Branson, Ferst Capital Partners, and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Building the World's Leading Neurodiversity Enterprise:
Our Story

2011
The Berlin Beginning

In 2011, Dirk Müller-Remus established auticon in Berlin, driven by a personal mission. Inspired by his autistic son’s experience, he recognised the profound inequality facing autistic adults in employment – despite their exceptional strengths. Dirk saw an opportunity: the growing shortage of IT and data specialists could be addressed by harnessing the unique talents of neurodivergent professionals.

2013 - 2022
Strategic Partnership and Global Expansion

Two years later, Kurt Schöffer joined as Joint CEO alongside Dirk, having been one of auticon’s earliest investors. When Dirk stepped away from the business in 2016 to start a new social enterprise for neurodivergent people, Kurt took the reins with ambitious plans for international growth.

Under Kurt’s leadership, auticon’s expansion was purposeful and impactful. auticon opened offices in the UK and France in 2016, followed by Switzerland and Italy in 2017. In 2018, strategic acquisitions of MindSpark in the US and Meticulon in Canada expanded auticon’s footprint to North America. auticon Australia launched in 2019, with Poland and New Zealand joining in 2022.

2009 - 2022
Nordic Innovation

Simultaneously, Lars Johansson-Kjellerød had been pioneering similar work in Norway. His 2009 launch of Unicus created a social enterprise model connecting autistic IT professionals with meaningful technology careers. Unicus grew throughout the Nordic region into Sweden and Finland, and in 2022 invested in Dutch company Specialisterren.

2023
A Powerful Union

Both organisations had proven that neurodiversity drives business success whilst creating genuine social impact. Joining forces in 2023, we became the world’s largest autistic-majority organisation – employing over 500 people across 15 markets, with more than 75% of our workforce being neurodivergent.

For 15 years, we’ve provided sustainable employment for autistic technologists, standing as living proof that neurodiversity works at work.

2024
New Leadership, Enduring Mission

Following Kurt’s well-earned retirement in 2024 after 12 transformative years, Luke Williams OBE became Group CEO in January 2025. His focus remains clear: building on Dirk and Kurt’s remarkable legacy by creating more opportunities for autistic and neurodivergent people globally, demonstrating the measurable value of neurodiverse teams, and fostering a truly inclusive society.

Connect with one of our global offices

Australia

Level 35, Tower One Barangaroo Int. Towers Sydney, 100 Barangaroo Ave,
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Tel: +61 (0) 2 8046 3904

Email: moc.n1752597290ocitu1752597290a@sua1752597290-ofni1752597290

Canada

Suite 300, 3820 – 24th Avenue NW
Calgary, Alberta T3B 2X9, Canada
Tel +1 888-286-4826

Email: ac.no1752597290citua1752597290@ofni1752597290

Finland (Unicus)

Atomitie 2B
00370 Helsinki, Finland
Tel +358 40 823 76 98

Email: moc.s1752597290ucinu1752597290@akku1752597290j1752597290

France

58A Rue du Dessous des Berges
75013 Paris, France
Tel +33 (0)1 77 93 25 42

Email: rf.no1752597290citua1752597290@tcat1752597290noc1752597290

Germany

Baierbrunner Str. 25,
81379 München, Germany
Tel+49 89 20060680

Email: ed.no1752597290citua1752597290@ofni1752597290

Ireland

The Academy
42 Pearse Street
Dublin, D02 HV59 Ireland

Email: ei.no1752597290citua1752597290@ofni1752597290

Italy

Via Antonio Stradivari, 4
(ang. Piazza Argentina) 20131 Milano, Italia
Tel +39 02 4770 9056

Email: ti.no1752597290citua1752597290@ofni1752597290

Netherlands

Netherlands (Specialisterren B.V.)
Kobaltweg 11
3542 CE Utrecht
Tel. +31 (0)30 261 51 11
Email: ln.no1752597290citua1752597290@ofni1752597290

New Zealand
Level 26, 188 Quay Street
Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 3633777

Email: moc.n1752597290ocitu1752597290a@sua1752597290-ofni1752597290

Norway (Unicus)

Strandveien 17
1366 Lysaker
Tel +481 56 067/982 57 960
Email: moc.s1752597290ucinu1752597290@huc1752597290

Poland
UI. Aleja Grunwaldzka 472B,
80-309 Gdansk, Poland
Tel. +48 600 430 086

Email: moc.d1752597290nalop1752597290-noci1752597290tua@o1752597290fni1752597290

Sweden (Unicus)

Magnus Ladulåsgatan 27
118 65 Stockholm
Tel +08-462 96 00

Email: moc.s1752597290ucinu1752597290@sred1752597290na1752597290

Switzerland

Löwenstrasse 42, 8001
Zürich, Switzerland
Tel +41 44 597 77 71
Email: hc.no1752597290citua1752597290@ofni1752597290

United Kingdom

18 Crucifix Lane, 
London, England SE1 3JW
Tel +44 (0) 2032 9090 28

Email: ku.oc1752597290.noci1752597290tua@o1752597290fni1752597290

United States

2108 N St., Suite 5522,
Sacramento, CA 95816
Tel +1 310 396-9292

Email: su.no1752597290citua1752597290@ofni1752597290

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