As the founder and CEO of Do-IT Solutions Professor Amanda Kirby is very unusual and has the unique experience of straddling health, education, and the workplace. 

Amanda’s skills lies in her being a collaborator and a knowledge translator. This allows her to traverse disciplines and bring interdisciplinary working together. 

She is a qualified GP and worked in adult psychiatry and stress management but changed her career when her 2nd child was diagnosed with Dyspraxia at 3 years of age. Her experience and frustrations ( at times) as a parent finding her way around the health and educational system led to her consequently starting up an interdisciplinary specialist centre for parents, and children in Wales more than 25 years ago in order to be able to provide practical robust support. 

Her family is also very neurodivergent with children and adults with a range of diagnoses of dyslexia, autism, developmental coordination disorder ( also known as Dyspraxia), developmental language disorder and ADHD ( and more!) and this has provided her with a unique understanding, insight, and a passion that continues to raise awareness and champion best practices both in education and employment. 

She is an emeritus professor at the University of South Wales and has lectured to more than 100,000 individuals worldwide, written over 100 research papers, and become internationally recognized in the field of neurodiversity as both a clinician and researcher and published 9 books in the field about Neurodiversity.

She has delivered consultancy, tools, and training to all size organisations across the UK and internationally including South Wales Police, JISC, Post Office, Admiral, JP Morgan and for DWP and MOJ. 

Amanda has sat on government advisory boards (e.g. Hidden Impairment National Group) as well as advising UK and international charities in the field of neurodiversity. This includes being a patron of the Dyspraxia Association in New Zealand, Chair of Movement Matters UK,  and works with great UK charities including the Dyspraxia Foundation, British Dyslexia Association, North East Autism Society, and is a trustee of the ADHD Foundation campaigning to embrace neurodiversity. Her Ph.D. ( after she became a professor) was relating to the changes that go on in adolescence in emerging adulthood and she developed web-based screening tools which are now used internationally in the workplace.  

During Covid-19 she has delivered webinars to more than 5000 professionals nationally and internationally including for Inclusive Companies, DWP Ability Network, for MOJ, and ERSA to name a few. She has recently been delivering a programme called “Survive, Revive and Thrive – wellbeing for you and your teams” and has developed a wealth of freely available resources. She has just been one of the judges for the top 50 Inclusive Employers' awards. She was recently voted one of the LinkedIn’s Top 20 Voices of 2020 in the UK and in 2021 was named one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in the UK.