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Howard Chambers

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Howard Chambers has forty years of experience as a workplace needs assessor, disability advocate, and assistive technology specialist, including roles at Remploy and Posturite. He worked directly with neurodivergent adults navigating employment — many of them under performance review, convinced they were the problem.
He is a Level 2 England Athletics coach based in Crete, Greece, and the author of Halo Handicap, a book examining how appearance bias shapes opportunity for women and girls in sport.
MISREAD is his second book — a hybrid fiction and research account of how the workplace misunderstands neurodivergent brains, and what needs to change. It includes contributed sections from Yolanda Pemberton, Founder of the National Workplace Adjustm
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Why I Wrote MISREAD

I spent forty years sitting across from people the system had already failed.
Not failed dramatically. Quietly. Performance reviews that described the cost of the environment as a character flaw. Promotions that went to the person who filled the room rather than the one who delivered the work. Adjustments declined in thirty seconds by a manager preparing for a board call.
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Published on September 03, 2026 13:48 • Tags: neurodiversity
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I wrote this book after a chance meeting with a mate of my friend. I had no intentions of writing a book, let alone about gambling, but his story was compelling as it was unbelievable at times. To see someone go from the depths of depravity to now a ...more
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I tried to write this book so it would be easy to understand and used fiction/research/reflection sections to better get over the message that not all managers are bad. I tried to take out all the jargon associated with business and in particular com ...more
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"A very human book about something that is usually discussed in corporate language. I came away thinking differently about performance, communication and what “fit” actually means."
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"The idea of an “access gap” rather than a knowledge gap really made sense to me. Someone can know their job and still struggle when the environment works against them."
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“Nobody names that. They just call it a performance issue.”
― Howard Chambers, MISREAD: How the Workplace Misunderstands Neurodivergent Brains – and What We Can Do About It

“I rarely met a bad manager. I met a lot of untrained ones.”
― Howard Chambers

“Nobody names that. They just call it a performance issue.”
― Howard Chambers, MISREAD: How the Workplace Misunderstands Neurodivergent Brains – and What We Can Do About It

“I rarely met a bad manager. I met a lot of untrained ones.”
― Howard Chambers

“The same person. Different conditions. A completely different result.”
― Howard Chambers, MISREAD: How the Workplace Misunderstands Neurodivergent Brains – and What We Can Do About It

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