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 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.
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 April 2023.
Direct hires
225
225 people accepted offers of employment the through the Neurodiversity Program.
Global regions
3
The program has been implemented in the U.S., EMEA and India.
Business Lines
5
New hires work in Technology, Corp & IB Finance, COO, CB & CIB.
Hires retained
99%
Nearly all of our neurodiversity hires are still employed with us.
Hiring managers
215
215 of our hiring managers have participated in the neurodiversity program hiring.
Employees trained
3,500+
Over 3,500 of our employees have been trained on the neurodiversity program.
Job titles
8
Our neurodiversity program hires for multiple job areas.
New hires onboarded
600
The program has been expanded to new hires in other areas of Technology.
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