Our Founding Story
Built from lived experience.
Enna wasn’t born from a gap in the market. It was born from a family, from years of watching brilliant people struggle in systems that didn’t understand them, and from a deep conviction that it doesn’t have to be this way.
Our Founding Story
Founded in
2019
Head Office
London
Countries Operated In
33
Organisations partnered with
450
Emily, our CEO was awarded 'Young Businesswoman of the Year' for 2025.
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Meet Our Founder
Emily Banks, Founder and CEO
Emily founded Enna in 2019 with a simple but ambitious goal: to help organisations build workplaces where neurodivergent people can genuinely thrive, not just get by.
With a background in corporate banking and over six years running Enna, she brings both commercial experience and a deep personal understanding to the work. Since founding the business, Emily has worked with organisations across 33 countries, from fast-growing startups to major public sector bodies, helping them move beyond good intentions and build neuroinclusion that actually sticks.
Her commitment to this work isn’t just professional. It’s rooted in years of lived experience that long predate Enna’s founding.
Growing Up
A family shaped by neurodiversity.
Emily’s dad and brothers are neurodivergent. Growing up, she watched people she loved work incredibly hard – harder than most – and still feel like they were constantly swimming against the current. Not because they lacked ability. They had it in abundance. But the environments around them were built for a certain kind of person, and they weren’t quite it.
Nobody named it. Nobody stepped in. They just adapted as best they could, and carried the rest quietly.
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Emily and her two brothers.
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2015-2018
An industry that got her thinking.
Whilst working within banking, Emily noticed something she couldn’t quite put her finger on at first. Everyone worked in more or less the same way. Same style, same approach, same unwritten rules about how you were supposed to show up. It wasn’t anyone’s fault – it was just the culture of the industry.
But for someone who had grown up watching what it meant to not fit that mould, it was hard not to notice the gap between the people who moved through it effortlessly and those who might have thrived there if things had been just a little different.
2023
In 2023, after years of waiting, Emily got her own ADHD diagnosis.
By the time it came, she had already been running Enna for four years. She had spent that time helping organisations understand neurodivergent employees – and yet, like so many people, she had been waiting a long time for answers about herself.
When the diagnosis finally arrived, it wasn’t a shock. It was more like clarity. Years of experiences – her own and her family’s – suddenly made sense. It didn’t change why she had started Enna. It just made the whole thing feel even more true.
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Ready to build a neuroinclusive organisation?
Whether you’re an employee looking for answers, or an organisation building a more neuroinclusive culture, Enna can help.