Ludmila N. Praslova, PhD, SHRM-SCP, is the award-winning author of The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2024), listed as one of the top new management books for 2024 by Thinkers50. She is a professor of graduate industrial-organizational psychology at Vanguard University of Southern California, USA, and a member of the Thinkers50 Radar 2024 cohort of global management thinkers most likely to impact workplaces. With more than 25 years of experience in developing talent-rich organizations, she is the first person to publish in Harvard Business Review from an autistic perspective.