Wells Fargo Neurodiversity Program
The Wells Fargo Neurodiversity Program facilitates a more considerate, accommodating, skills-based hiring model that is accessible by design.
About neurodiversity
What is neurodiversity?
Neurodiversity is the range of differences in individual brain function and behavioral traits, regarded as part of normal variation in the human population.
What cognitive differences are included?
Neurodiversity includes inherent cognitive differences such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyslexia, and others.
Program overview
The Neurodiversity Program was launched in April 2020 in honor of Autism Awareness Month to support a profoundly underserved community that suffers high and disproportionate unemployment rates. The first cohort was initiated in August of 2020 and since then 298 full-time employees and 20 interns have been hired in the U.S. and India. Recent expansion has provided opportunities in Technology; Finance; Chief Operating Office; Commercial Banking; Corporate & Investment Banking; Consumer, Small & Business Banking; Consumer Lending; and Corporate Risk.
We have begun planning for a new learning series called Developing My Career at Wells Fargo (internal mobility and effective employment) and are incubating a skills development platform (Community Enrichment) to facilitate community engagement with the neurodiversity community. Fundamentally, this model is extensible to support a diversity of historically underserved and underrepresented populations.
Our program mission and goals
Create...
meaningful employment opportunities for a deeply underserved community through accessible and modernized sourcing and selection processes.
Deliver...
employee programs to enrich the lives and experiences of our employees by creating strong support structures that foster well-being, equity and inclusion.
Eliminate...
the need for a program to serve the neurodivergent community in the long term.
Establish...
a strategic advantage for Wells Fargo through access to highly skilled and largely untapped talent pools.
Neurodiversity Program statistics
From program inception through Q3 2024.
Employee hires*
298 + 20
*298 people have accepted full time offers of employment through the Neurodiversity Program. Additionally, 20 interns started the program in Summer, 2024.
Global regions
3
The program has been implemented in the U.S., EMEA and India.
Business Divisions
8
New hires work in Technology, Finance, Chief Operating Office, Commercial Banking, Corporate & Investment Banking, Consumer and Small Business Banking, Consumer Lending, and Corporate Risk.
Employee retention
97%
Nearly all of our neurodiversity hires are still employed with us.
Hiring managers
260
260 of our hiring managers have participated in the neurodiversity program hiring.
Access to education
Firmwide
All of our employees have access to neurodiversity program training.
Job titles
9
Our neurodiversity program hires for multiple job areas.
New hires onboarded
750
Through model developed by the Neurodiversity Program.
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