Who we are

Built by people who
were fine not fine.

Two neurodivergent founders. Late diagnoses. Years of workplaces and classrooms that weren't designed for them. Eventually, enough was enough.

The honest version

Why we built this.
(The unvarnished edition.)

Neither of us were diagnosed as children. Which means we both spent a significant chunk of our school years being told we were bright but distracted, capable but inconsistent, full of potential but somehow not quite living up to it.

School was complicated. Work was more complicated. We both spent years navigating environments that weren't built for the way our brains work - masking, adapting, burning out, and quietly wondering if everyone else found it this hard or if it was just us.

(It wasn't just us. It's one in five people. We checked.)

We built All Minds Matter because we got tired of waiting for someone else to fix it. Not because we had a gap in the market identified on a spreadsheet. Because we lived it, we're still living it, and we know exactly how much unnecessary suffering comes from organisations that mean well and do nothing useful.

This is the tool we wish had existed.

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We built this because we lived it. Both of us. For years. And we were frankly exhausted by how avoidable most of it was.
- Rach & Oli, founders
Rach, Founder and Director of All Minds Matter
Founder & Director
Meet Rach
Rachael Parkin
Founder & Director · AuDHD · Builder of things at midnight
AuDHDData & GovernanceND AdvocateAuthorParent

Rach spent over 15 years in data analysis, governance, and software design before deciding that the most useful thing she could do with all that technical knowledge was point it directly at a problem she'd been living with her entire life. She was diagnosed AuDHD in her late thirties. Turns out the “she's bright but needs to apply herself more” comments weren't a personality flaw. Who knew.

She's also the parent of an AuDHD daughter - which means neuroinclusion isn't just a professional interest, it's Tuesday. And Wednesday. And most of the weekend. She knows what it looks like when a system fails a child, and she knows what it looks like when it doesn't - because her dad spent his career as a teacher in primary and behavioural schools, and she grew up understanding education from every angle, including the angles most people never see.

She built this platform. Largely at midnight. Powered by hyperfocus and a conviction that if neuroinclusion tools are going to exist, they should actually work. She is also a disability and ND advocate, a content creator, and - for her sins - a published author.

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Co-authored with Oli
The Pug Apocalypse
A story with a female AuDHD protagonist. Because representation matters, and also because pugs are deeply unhinged and we respect that.
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Currently writing
A dark comedic murder mystery
Featuring an AuDHD perimenopausal female lead. It's going extremely well and nobody is getting away with anything.
Meet Oli
Oli Stevens
Co-founder · Autistic · The one with the words
AutisticPublished AuthorND AdvocateResearcher

Oli was diagnosed autistic in his twenties. It explained a lot. Specifically, it explained why he'd spent years in environments that felt like they were designed for a version of him that didn't quite exist - too much noise, too many unwritten rules, too much performance of normalcy that nobody had actually defined.

Since his diagnosis, he's dedicated himself to understanding what genuinely supports neurodivergent people - not in theory, not in a policy document, but in the actual messy reality of workplaces and systems that weren't built with them in mind.

He brings research, lived experience, and a very precise way of saying difficult things clearly. His work is rooted in the belief that neuroinclusion isn't a specialist topic - it's essential knowledge for any organisation that wants to value the full range of human minds. He is also, it turns out, quite good at writing books.

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Co-authored with Rach
The Pug Apocalypse
An AuDHD female protagonist navigates the end of everything. Warm, funny, and considerably more chaotic than the title suggests.
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Currently writing
A personal memoir
Non-fiction. The kind of honest that takes a while to get right. It's coming.
Oli, Co-Founder and Contributor at All Minds Matter
Co-Founder & Contributor
Why we exist
“Most workplaces and schools weren't built for brains like mine. Or maybe like yours.”

I found that out the hard way. Diagnosed with AuDHD in my mid-30s, decades after anyone should have noticed, because women like me get told it's anxiety, or overthinking, or just being “a bit much.” I spent years masking in meetings, drowning in sensory overload, and wondering why everyone else seemed to have a rulebook I'd never been handed.

All Minds Matter exists because I got tired of watching that story repeat. Not just mine - everyone's: the colleague who burns out trying to seem “normal,” the student who knows every answer but won't put their hand up, the manager who wants to help but has nothing useful to work with.

So we build the useful thing. Assessments, policies, toolkits, training, resources for classrooms and boardrooms - all of it designed to actually get used, not filed away next to the diversity statement nobody reads.

On being a profit-making company

We're a profit-making company, and we're proud of that. Profit means we survive long enough to keep making things that matter - not the other way round.

We're not interested in performative inclusion. We're interested in Tuesday mornings going slightly better for someone who's spent their whole life being told they're too much, or not enough.

That's it. That's the whole point.

- Rachael Parkin, Founder & Director

What this means in practice

We're not doing this because
it's a good business opportunity.

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We know what the gap feels like.
Both of us spent years in workplaces that didn't accommodate our brains. We didn't get the adjustments. We didn't get the understanding. We got very good at pretending.
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We know what fixes it - and what doesn't.
An awareness day doesn't fix it. A policy in a folder doesn't fix it. Actual structural change, consistently applied, with someone accountable for it - that fixes it.
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We built tools we would have actually used.
Every product in All Minds Matter is tested against one question: would this have helped us? If the answer is yes, it ships. If it's just ticking a box, it doesn't.
What we actually believe

The principles behind
everything we build.

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Every brain belongs
Neurodivergence is not a deficit to be managed. It is a dimension of human diversity that organisations have a responsibility - and an opportunity - to design for.
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Evidence over intention
Good intentions do not create inclusive environments. Measurement, accountability, and structured improvement do. We give organisations the tools to do the work properly.
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Systemic change, not surface fixes
Real neuroinclusion requires change at the level of culture, process, environment, and leadership. Not a one-off training session. Not a revised policy document.
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Lived experience at the centre
The people most affected by neuroinclusion failures are the most important voices in designing the solutions. We are neurodivergent people building for neurodivergent people.
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Shared responsibility
Neuroinclusion isn't the job of HR alone. It requires commitment from every layer of an organisation - from leadership to frontline teams.
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Progress over perfection
We don't expect organisations to be perfect. We expect them to be honest about where they are, and committed to getting better. That's what we built this for.
“We don't want a seat at the table. We want the table redesigned so everyone can actually use it.”
- Rach & Oli, All Minds Matter
All Minds Matter - Workplaces

Right. Let's actually do something about this.

Tools for organisations that want to make neuroinclusion measurable, not just meaningful. Assessment, e-learning, policy templates, employee toolkit.

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All Minds Matter - Education

Every classroom. Every learner. Every stage.

From Reception to PhD. Tools for teachers, SENCOs, students, and institutions who know that one-size-fits-all never did.

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