A practical playbook for women in tech navigating bias, disability, neurodivergence, and the unspoken rules
6 July 2026 | 12:00 - 13:00 (BST)
Overview
In this masterclass, Claire Dellar shares a practical, real-world playbook for navigating a career in tech when the rules feel inconsistent and the expectations are impossible to meet at the same time.
This is not a “just work harder” session. It is truth-telling plus tactics.
Drawing on her experience as a disabled, neurodivergent woman in a senior role, Claire explores the double binds many women face at work, being confident but not intimidating, direct but not difficult, ambitious but still likeable, and what happens when you physically cannot “just push through” in the way workplaces often expect.
She will share what she has learned from navigating those pressures in real environments, including moments where being visible, whether that is disability, difference, or leadership style, changes how people respond to you.
Participants will leave with practical scripts, decision tools, and strategies they can use immediately, including how to get credit for their work, handle bias in real time, and build allies who actively shift outcomes.
The aim is not to help people endure broken systems more gracefully.
It is to help them navigate those systems and win anyway, without losing themselves in the process.
What you’ll learn
Participants will leave with:
- A Double Bind Decoder to recognise what is happening and choose a response deliberately
- Practical scripts for high-stakes moments, including:
o being interrupted
o being overlooked
o being labelled “too much” or “not enough”
o advocating for promotion or recognition - A way to build visibility and influence without masking or shrinking, especially relevant for disability and neurodivergence
- An Ally Operating System, how to identify, brief, and activate allies so they actually change outcomes
- A more sustainable approach to career resilience based on boundaries, energy, and strategy, not burnout.
Who should attend?
This is a Women in Tech masterclass aimed at the WIT DTS L7 learners on programme.
Speaker
Claire Dellar (she / her) Lead Product Manager, Digital Primary Care Accessibility & Inclusive Design Evangelist, NHS England Founder of Wheelchair Tango Foxtrot Consulting
Claire Dellar is a Lead Product Manager at NHS England, accessibility ambassador, and award nominated disability advocate who is known for saying the quiet part out loud when it comes to women’s careers in tech.
She is a wheelchair user with hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD) and is neurodivergent, and she brings that lived experience directly into her work. Not just as context, but as a lens to challenge how workplaces, systems, and expectations are designed, and who they are really designed for.
Claire has shaped national digital products used by millions of people every day, including GP practice systems and services patients rely on across the NHS. Alongside this, she runs hands-on accessibility experiences that allow people to feel, not just hear about, the barriers disabled users face, turning empathy into action and good intentions into better design.
She is also founder of Wheelchair Tango Foxtrot Consulting, where she has helped influence accessibility and research practices across multiple industries, including creating the trauma-informed research guidance.
A regular conference speaker and radio contributor, Claire speaks candidly about the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” reality many women face at work. Her perspective sits at the intersection of gender, disability, and neurodivergence, and she focuses on helping people navigate that reality, not by shrinking themselves to fit it, but by understanding the system, building allies, and choosing how to respond on their own terms.
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