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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

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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.

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What cognitive differences are included?

Neurodiversity includes inherent cognitive differences such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyslexia, and others.

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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 190 full-time employees have been hired into technology roles in the U.S. and India. Recent enterprise expansion has provided opportunities in Corporate Finance and there are ongoing discussions with our Corporate & Investment Banking, Wealth & Investment Management, Credit Card, HR/Accommodations and Legal teams.

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. 

How our program works

Our program mission and goals

Neurodiversity Program statistics

From program inception through April 2023.

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Direct hires

225

225 people accepted offers of employment the through the Neurodiversity Program.

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Global regions

3

The program has been implemented in the U.S., EMEA and India.

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Business Lines

5

New hires work in Technology, Corp & IB Finance, COO, CB & CIB.

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Hires retained

99%

Nearly all of our neurodiversity hires are still employed with us.

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Hiring managers

215

215 of our hiring managers have participated in the neurodiversity program hiring.

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Employees trained

3,500+

Over 3,500 of our employees have been trained on the neurodiversity program.

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Job titles

8

Our neurodiversity program hires for multiple job areas.

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New hires onboarded

600

The program has been expanded to new hires in other areas of Technology.

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