Disability expert, change agent, keynote speaker. 16 years experience in developing a solid understanding of the practical implications of disability in business and creating change to further the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace and society. A confident and articulate communicator, well known as a speaker and passionate agent of change in disability matters, originally in IT Accessibility but now focused on breaking down barriers in the workplace, in particular by the provision of workplace adjustments.Member of various accessibility/disability focus groups and committees including representing the banking sector on the Prime Minister’s Dementia Friendly Communities Champion’s Group, a member of the steering committee for the launch of Disability Confident (and now a member of the DC Practitioners and Professional Advisors Groups), and chairing a DWP working group on the transition from education into employment for disabled young people.Outside work an abuser of guitars and other stringed instruments and now learning the piano, enthusiastic wood worker, and a keen astrophotographer severely hampered by cloudy skies.I have inattentive ADHD (with dyslexic, DCD, and autistic traits) and an ileostomy (so I wear a stoma pouch/bag).
Listed skills include Stakeholder Management, Project Management, Change Management, Management, and 19 others.