From Disability Awareness to Meaningful Change

Partnering with you to embedded inclusive cultures, systems and practices that last.

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Where to Start?

Understanding Inclusion

If you’re at the beginning of your disability inclusion journey, the best place to start is by understanding disability awareness in the workplace.

Disability is broad, varied, and intersectional. To create a workplace where disabled people can thrive, it’s important to recognise the barriers they currently face. Once those are understood, developing solutions that remove or reduce those easier barriers becomes easier in collaboration with those affected.

This is where disability awareness in the workplace makes a real difference.

We recommend starting with a talk from a disabled guest speaker. This gives your whole organisation a shared knowledge, awareness, and empathy foundation. It’s a practical way to introduce the concepts of disability inclusion and show what everyone can start doing right now to support disabled colleagues and customers.

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Awareness & Diagnosis

We start by listening and observing. Through disability inclusion gap analysis assessments, interviews and conversations, we can uncover the current position of inclusion across your business and identify the areas that need attention.

Strategy & Design

Co-designing a disability inclusion roadmap for sustainable change. This involves setting priorities, defining outcomes and designing practical actions that align with your organisations goals.

Implementation & Capability Building

Training, talks and consultancy are offered as an organisation wide provision and to targeted roles. Building capacity and confidence at every level. Enabling leaders and teams to translate strategy into day-to-day inclusive practice.

Embedding & Measurement

Evaluating, measuring and adapting where needed. At this stage, disability inclusion becomes part of how the organisation operates, supported by governance, accountability and continuous learning.

What We Do

Every Business Works to Their Own Goals, We Want to Support You.

At Celebrating Disability, we tailor every service to where your business is on its inclusion journey. Whether you’re just getting started or ready to embed long-term change, we’ll meet you there.

Founded by Esi Hardy — a disabled trainer, speaker and consultant with both lived and professional experience — we support organisations through personalised training, guest speaking, and consultancy.

We can help you:

  • Engage positively in conversations about disability and with disabled people
  • Design recruitment processes that attract and support disabled candidates
  • Build tools and resources for line managers to offer meaningful support
  • Create inclusive events that genuinely welcome disabled people
  • Embed inclusive practices into day-to-day operations
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We talk about disability from a pan perspective. This includes talking about inclusion for people from the following impairment groups:

  • Neurodiversity
  • Sensory impairments
  • Long-term health conditions
  • Mental health impairments
  • Physical impairments
  • Learning impairments

Our Services

How We Work With You

Wherever your organisation is on its inclusion journey, we’ll meet you there. All of our services are tailored to your needs — whether you’re just getting started or ready to embed long-term change.

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Guest Speaking

Catalyst for sharing disability inclusion language, articulating purpose and disability inclusion alignment across the business.
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Project Based Consultancy

Focusing on embedding inclusive practice into policies, processes and culture so that inclusion becomes part of everyday operations. Working in partnership, we review systems, identify remaining barriers and develop practical solutions that align with organisational goals. The outcome is a confident, disability-inclusive culture that can continue to evolve independently.

Understanding

Inclusion Is More Than Access

Many workplaces lack physical access — and this is often seen as the main barrier. As a result, some organisations believe they can’t be accessible or work effectively with disabled people.

While the built environment is important, inclusion goes much further. It’s about how someone feels when they’re in the building — whether they feel welcomed, understood, and valued. Many of the barriers disabled people face are intangible, and not related to the physical environment at all.

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Ready to take the first step towards disability inclusion?

Start with a guest speaking session and take the first step towards real, lasting change.

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Testimonials

What Our Partners Say

Businesses we work with often say the biggest impact isn’t just what they learn, it’s how confident they feel applying it.

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Esi is a really engaging speaker who brings to life how to think differently about disability inclusion – empowering both disabled colleagues and allies to leverage the strengths of disabled colleagues whilst being cognisant of the barriers that may inadvertently be placed in their way.
Helen Krushave
Tesco Bank
Esi is a wonderful speaker and addition to any panel conference. She is open, transparent and funny and really willing to share her own experiences to raise awareness and teach others. I’ve learnt so much from Esi and would definitely recommend her and Celebrating Disability.
Gill Cook
Three
Esi is an extremely warm and engaging facilitator who helped our team explore language, biases and the actions we can take to make our workplace and community events more accessible, engaging and inclusive. I would 100% recommend this training to organisations across all sectors.
Tyler Fox
The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Not sure if Celebrating Disability is the right fit? Here are some of the questions we’re often asked.

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