London CTOs Lunch Club – Preparing for Uncertainty: Neuroinclusive Leadership in High-Demand Tech

​Join Sonia Malik and Volker Ballueder for a short, high-impact session exploring how uncertainty, cognitive load, and rapid context-switching drive anxiety and burnout in technical environments, particularly for neurodivergent brains.

Participants will learn practical, non-pathologising ways to support ADHD and autistic team members while meeting legal obligations under the Equality Act (2010), and will begin to build a personalised toolkit for managing stress, difficult conversations, delivery pressure, and freeze responses to enable steadier, more sustainable leadership in complex engineering and product contexts.

The clinic is designed and delivered by clinicians and coaches with deep experience in both mental health and tech, and will conclude with an interactive Q&A with Sonia and Volker to ground these evidence-based, commercially aligned tools in real-world leadership scenarios.

​About the London CTOs Lunch Club
The London CTOs Lunch Club is a weekly gathering of technology leaders, meeting every Friday lunchtime for light-touch, high-value conversations. Each session blends education, reflection, and peer discussion in an informal environment.

​We bring CTOs together to share experiences, question assumptions, and explore what modern technical leadership really looks like — in practice, not in theory