Accessible Workplaces – Discovering The Easy Wins
There’s a myth that all workplace accommodations are formal, time-consuming and expensive. While things like retrofitting non-accessible buildings can certainly come with significant costs, a lot of accessibily simply requires a knowledge of what can be done and a desire to make it happen.
In this half hour expert web panel. Inclusion Speakers.com accessibility experts Marjorie Aunos,Ph.D and Ingrid Palmer join Invisible Disability speaker Jason Reid as we look at some easy wins that can be accomplished on the accessibility front that don’t require major capital expenditures.
Oct 16th 2024 at 12:30 pm to 1pm eastern on Zoom – Register Here
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Marjorie Aunos, Accessibility Expert
Dr. Marjorie Aunos has worked in the Health and Social Services sector for 15 years as a clinical psychologist and a senior manager. She is also a researcher, speaker, and consultant on accessibility and inclusion teaching organizations and educators to find and build environments that are accessible, inclusive, and welcoming. She has expertise in working with people and parents with various disabilities and is herself a wheelchair user.
Ingrid Palmer, Disability Advocate
Ingrid Palmer was diagnosed with two rare disorders in her teens; Retinitis Pigmentosa which causes blindness, and PCOS which resulted in her growing facial hair. As a Black female who experienced adverse childhood trauma, and several years in foster care, Ingrid has overcome adversity directly linked to intersections of race, gender, ability, sociology-economic status, and perceived orientation. Ingrid founded Focus On Ability to combat ableism, challenge bias, promote universal belonging, drive systemic change and debunk myths and stereotypes of stigmatized identities.
Host – Jason Reid, Invisible Disability and Inclusion
Jason Reid had a successful career in television as a news manager while living with two significant invisible illnesses. Being open about his health challenges prompted his employees to share theirs. He soon realized that 50 percent of his staff had their own invisible disabilities. Using open communication, and solution-focused strategies he doubled the productivity of his department within a year. For the past decade, he has spoken about managing invisible illness in the workplace to audiences around the world.