Learning from You
Working and collaborating with your team to understand your disability inclusion policies and processes, and how they currently stand.
Disability Inclusion Policy Into Practice
Providing the knowledge, tools and confidence to enable consistent implementation of disability inclusion policies and processes.
Turning your policy into everyday practice.
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Understanding the Problem
The issue is often inconsistent application. Disability inclusion policies are interpreted differently across teams, leaving managers unsure how to apply them in real situations.
This shows up clearly with reasonable adjustments, but it does not stop there. The same challenges appear in recruitment, day-to-day management, and decision-making across the employee lifecycle.
The intention is there, but challenges remain in implementing reasonable adjustments and applying disability inclusion in practice. Decisions are delayed, support becomes reactive, and employees have very different experiences depending on who they speak to.
This is the gap between policy and practice.
It is not a lack of awareness. It is a lack of clarity, confidence, and consistency in decision-making.
The solution is building that clarity and confidence so disability inclusion is applied consistently, not left to individual interpretation.
Design & Development
Based on what you are saying is not currently working, develop disability inclusion training material to enable disability inclusion policies, disability inclusion strategies and responsibilities to be understood and lived.
Adjusting and Refining
As line managers participate in training, we learn their daily challenges. Using this info, we refine our delivery and content to meet attendees’ needs. Ongoing analysis of learning and feedback ensures delivery of content which enables inclusion in day-to-day operations.
Embedding & Measurement
Ongoing data analysis and post-training reflection enable you to have a clear view of what is going well, what still needs work, and where managers are still getting stuck. Supporting you to drive the direction for your next steps.
What We Do
Moving Beyond Theory Into Sustainable Practice
Every outcome is tailored to achieve your disability inclusion goals and recognise your specific areas of challenge. By doing this, we can ensure long-term, sustainable change that makes your disability inclusion efforts reflective and aligned with your inclusion goals.
Founded by Esi Hardy, a trainer, speaker and consultant with live and professional experience of disability. Supporting EDI leaders to see their policies and processes move from theory to reality.
After working with us, your colleagues will be able to:
- Proactively engage in conversations about disability and with disabled people
- Design recruitment processes that attract and support disabled candidates
- Create inclusive events that genuinely welcome disabled people
- Embed inclusive practices into day-to-day operations
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
Services
Working With You
Disability inclusion looks different in every organisation. That’s why there’s no fixed programme waiting to be delivered regardless of your context. The starting point is always your workplace; listening, asking the right questions, and understanding what’s actually happening on the ground, which is often different from what initial conversations or data suggest.
Everything is built collaboratively, around your existing policies, culture and goals. From the very beginning, you’ll have a clear picture of where you’re heading and how you’ll get there. Practical tools and real-world scenarios are woven throughout, so progress is visible at every stage, instead of something you have to wait until the end to see.
The result is disability inclusion that isn’t delivered to your organisation. It’s built with it.
Collaboration, Not Prescription
You know your workplace, we know disability inclusion strategy. Through collaboration, we can make your disability inclusion strategy goals into living action.
Identifying the Barriers
Consistent disability inclusion rarely fails because of a lack of intention. More often, the people responsible for bringing your strategy to life are facing barriers that haven't been identified yet. Understanding what's getting in the way is where lasting change begins.
Clarity From Start to Finish
Disability inclusion work shouldn't feel like a leap of faith. From the very first conversation, you'll have a clear picture of where you're heading, what progress looks like, and how you'll know it's working. You'll never be waiting until the end to see the difference it's making.
Understanding
The True Meaning of Inclusion
For many disabled people, exclusion doesn’t announce itself. It shows up in the recruitment process that was never designed with researched. In the reasonable adjustment that takes three months to agree. In the small, everyday moments that quietly communicate “You weren’t thought about here.”
Watch the video. Then ask yourself honestly — how much of what you see is still happening in your organisation?
Ready to take the first step towards disability inclusion?
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.
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
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