Sponsor Prospectus
Seeing Talent
Seeing Talent
Clearly
What Neurodivergent Employees Reveal About Performance Systems
Markets
United States · India · Germany
(UK Optional)
Publication
Q1 2027
Sponsor Levels
$15K · $40K · $100K
Across organizations, leaders are looking for clearer ways to understand contribution in a world where work is evolving. Performance systems sit at the heart of that understanding. They influence how careers take shape, how potential becomes visible, and how organizations recognize the people who move them forward.
As work becomes more interconnected and cognitively diverse, organizations are discovering new ways that talent shows up. Communication looks different. Focus looks different. Problem solving takes forms that were not always anticipated when traditional performance frameworks were created. The moment invites leaders to look again at the systems that guide development and advancement.
In this environment, neurodivergent professionals offer a powerful perspective. Their experiences help illuminate how today’s performance systems read contribution and where opportunities exist to see talent more fully.
The Opportunity
Many neurodivergent professionals work in fields shaping the future of work.
They contribute strengths in analytical depth, pattern recognition, systems thinking, technical insight, creativity, and sustained problem solving.
The Research
Why This Lens
Expands Possibility
Neurodivergent professionals are present across every dimension of the workforce. They contribute in every region, discipline, and level of an organization. Their experiences allow leaders to observe how evaluation systems respond to different ways of thinking and working.
Their stories reveal moments when contribution takes a form systems are not yet designed to interpret. These moments offer valuable information. They show where clarity can grow, where systems can adapt, and how organizations can recognize a wider range of strengths with intention and confidence.
Studying this lens helps leaders understand performance systems as living structures: structures that can evolve to match the creativity, capability, and diversity of the people inside them.
Clarity
Where performance systems can better interpret contribution
Adaptation
Where systems can evolve to recognize a wider range of strengths
Confidence
How organizations can act with intention as they redesign for the future
Research Scope
What the Research
Explores
This study examines how performance and feedback systems interpret contribution in the flow of modern work. It looks at how managers understand signals of strong performance, how feedback routines shape development, and how future potential is recognized.
Contribution
How managers weigh different forms of contribution and interpret signals of both performance and potential
Feedback
Opportunities to improve feedback processes for clarity and impact in dynamic environments
Evaluation
How different work styles, strengths, and contributions appear within evaluation systems
Advancement
How existing performance structures shape, and sometimes limit, growth, advancement, and succession planning
Geography
A Three-Market
Perspective
The study is currently designed to examine performance systems across the United States, India, and Germany. Each market brings its own leadership traditions, cultural patterns, regulatory context, and organizational rhythms. Studying them together will help reveal what travels across borders and what must be adapted locally.
This perspective supports leaders who manage global teams and want performance systems that travel well, adapt locally, and evolve with confidence.
US
United States
IN
India
DE
Germany
Optional UK Market Expansion
The UK can be added to the study if there is sponsor interest.
A UK market lens would make the research more directly useful for UK leaders navigating performance, feedback, neuroinclusion, HR transformation, and evolving expectations around work.
Adding the UK market would require a Project Sponsor commitment of $40,000 / approximately £30,000. This would support UK-specific research activity, market-level interpretation, and a UK-facing briefing or salon to help leaders engage with the findings in context.
Sponsor Access
What Leaders
Receive
Sponsors receive early insight into how performance systems operate across organizations and markets. The research takes place inside systems companies already use, allowing sponsors to apply findings directly to their own structures.
The study explores:
Performance reviews
Talent reviews
Feedback practices
Promotion pathways
Leadership development routines
Talent reviews
Feedback practices
Promotion pathways
Leadership development routines
Sponsors help shape the inquiry, contribute questions that matter to their teams, and stay closely connected as insights emerge.
Lead and Project Sponsors join working sessions with Coqual researchers to interpret findings and explore new routines. Supporting Sponsors receive early signals and ongoing access to emerging patterns. This partnership is designed to build clarity, expand capability, and help organizations design performance systems that grow with their people.
Timeline
Research Timeline
Publication
Estimated publication: Q1 2027
Before Publication
Sponsor briefings and early insight sessions would take place before publication
Investment
Sponsor Levels
For UK conversations, sponsor figures may be shown in both USD and GBP. GBP figures are rounded estimates based on recent exchange rates and should be confirmed at contracting.
| Sponsor Level | USD | Approx. GBP |
|---|---|---|
| Lead Sponsor | $100,000 | £75,000 |
| Project Sponsor | $40,000 | £30,000 |
| Supporting Sponsor | $15,000 | £11,250 |
Lead Sponsor
$100,000
approx. £75,000
Lead Sponsors play a central role in shaping the research direction and applying insights inside their organizations. This level includes:
- →A dedicated advisory project connected to an existing performance system
- →Strategic sessions with Coqual researchers
- →Early influence on research framing and stakeholder questions
- →First access to findings, tools, and insights
- →A featured organizational case example
- →A speaker role in private and public convenings
- →The opportunity to host and headline the global launch event
- →All Project and Supporting Sponsor benefits
Project Sponsor
$40,000
approx. £30,000
Project Sponsors participate closely in the research and apply one emerging routine through a focused pilot in an existing program. This level includes:
- →A pilot advisory engagement
- →Early access to findings and pre-publication insights
- →Participation in sponsor roundtables and working sessions
- →Recognition in research materials and launch events
- →A tailored findings snapshot with strategic discussion
- →All Supporting Sponsor benefits
Supporting Sponsor
$15,000
approx. £11,250
Supporting Sponsors stay connected to early insights and contribute perspective to the research. This level includes:
- →Recognition in the final report and launch
- →Access to sponsor briefings and emerging insights
- →Opportunities to participate through interviews or focus groups
- →Sponsor-specific insights when participation thresholds are met
- →Access to the research toolkit for internal use
Join Us
An Invitation to Build
What Comes Next
This study brings together organizations that want to shape the future of performance with clarity and intention. The sponsor group remains small so the work can stay connected, applied, and meaningful.
If seeing talent more fully is a priority for your 2026 decisions, and if you want to help build systems that support the wide range of strengths in today’s workforce, we invite you to join us.
About
About Coqual
Coqual is a global think tank with more than two decades of experience helping organizations navigate change and create conditions where people and ideas thrive.
Our work blends rigorous research with cultural insight and practical tools that help leaders turn knowledge into action. The Global Lab at Coqual is our applied innovation center. It is designed to test, refine, and share what works in real time, supporting organizations as they design for the future of work.
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Ready to sponsor?
The sponsor group for this study is intentionally small. If you are interested in joining, we would welcome a conversation.