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You and Yours: Gap Finders - Kate Griggs

04/08/2022

Gap Finders - Kate Griggs

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Gap Finders - Kate Griggs

How Kate Griggs, founder of the charity Made By Dyslexia, found a gap in the market.

How Kate Griggs, author, campaigner and founder of Made By Dyslexia, found a gap in society by shifting the narrative on dyslexia and educating people on its strengths.

Today's gap finder is Kate Griggs. She is an author, a campaigner and the founder and Chief Executive of the charity Made By Dyslexia. 
Kate believes that Dyslexic Thinking should be harnessed as a superpower for the way it can be creative and disruptive in the workplace. 
She has backing from Microsoft. Sir Richard Branson, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are fans.

Kate Griggs has been shifting the narrative on dyslexia and educating people on its strengths since 2004. Dyslexic herself and having been surrounded by family members who also are dyslexic, she's been surrounded by 'Dyslexic Thinking’ her whole life.

Kate is also the author of two Amazon #1 best-selling books published by Penguin Random House, a children’s book Xtraordinary People and her new book for adults, THIS is Dyslexia. 

Her campaign work has helped lead the charge to disrupt the world’s thinking around dyslexia, which she believes is vital for the workplace of the future and what employers are looking for. Her and the charity's main objective is to transform the way workplaces, schools, and society sees dyslexia.

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