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Initial Conversation
An opportunity to understand existing priorities, workplace challenges and what successful disability inclusion would look like within the organisation.
Practical Disability Inclusion That Works
Embedding Disability Inclusion Into Everyday Work
Many organisations have already invested in disability inclusion strategies, policies and training. The challenge is making disability inclusion visible in everyday work. When confidence, consistency and practical implementation are missing, even strong intentions can struggle to translate into workplace practice.
Where Disability Inclusion Can Stall
Disability inclusion can struggle when managers are unsure how to respond, workplace support conversations feel inconsistent or reasonable adjustments rely on employees repeatedly asking for support. Over time, this can create gaps between policy, confidence and everyday workplace experience.
If not supported properly, these inconsistencies lead to:
- Delays in implementing reasonable adjustments.
- Reduced confidence in disability disclosure.
- Disability inclusion policies not translating into everyday practice.
- Barriers that remain ignored until escalation happens.
Practical Disability Inclusion That Works
Practical Disability Inclusion Support
We support organisations to embed disability inclusion into everyday work, rather than approaching inclusion as a standalone initiative. The focus is on practical implementation, helping policies, strategies and workplace expectations translate more consistently into day to day practice.
This may include supporting managers to feel more confident in workplace support conversations, improving approaches to reasonable adjustments, strengthening disability inclusion strategies and identifying barriers affecting disabled employees across the workplace.
Support is tailored around organisational priorities, workplace environments and existing challenges. Depending on what is needed, this may include disability inclusion consultancy, disability inclusion training for managers, facilitated discussions, strategy support and longer term implementation guidance.
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Tailored Proposal
A detailed proposal outlining practical recommendations, delivery options and approaches to embedding disability inclusion into everyday work.
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Collaborative Planning
Collaborating with you to refine key outcomes, workplace priorities and implementation goals, ensuring support aligns with organisational needs.
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Delivery and Implementation
Practical disability inclusion support designed to build confidence, strengthen workplace practice and support long-term cultural change.
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Ongoing Support
Continued support through toolkits, follow-up conversations, regular check-ins and adapting approaches where needed.
About Us
Why Celebrate Disability?
Celebrating Disability is grounded in the philosophy set out by the disability movement; understanding that disability is external to a person with an impairment, and is created by the barriers in society that prevent disabled people from achieving and interacting the way that they otherwise would. When we “celebrate disability”, we are not stating that we celebrate the oppressions that we face. Nor are we celebrating the struggles, the pain and the discomfort that many disabled people face daily.
Esi gave Celebrating Disability its name to encourage society to understand that, rather than living with a deficit, we, as disabled people, have experiences that develop skills, diverse thought, community, background, resilience, and empowerment. Harnessing and celebrating these facts is what enables disability inclusion in the workplace.
Meet the Team
The People Behind Celebrating Disability
Our team brings a wealth of lived and professional experience to everything we do.
Zaineb Hadi
Zaineb is an access consultant and trainer, and a member of the UK Access Association. Zaineb previously worked in film...
Demothenes Caldis
Demos trained as a lawyer and now works in energy regulation. He has actively advocated for disability and LGBTQ+ inclusion...
Kim Edwards
Kim provides operational and administrative support at Celebrating Disability, ensuring that projects and events run smoothly behind the scenes. With over...
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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.
We provide purpose-built student accommodation. As a growing business, we have an ever increasing focus on giving managers the training to provide the correct level of support to Neurodivergent colleagues. Since working with Celebrating Disability, we have seen our managers feel more equipped to have conversations around this area. We look forward to continuing to work with Esi and the team as we understand the needs of our colleagues.
The professionalism of Esi and the team always meets expectations. They take the time to understand the training need and always adapt to deliver our objectives
Andrew Murray - Head of People Development
Homes For Students
Esi was incredibly responsive to our original brief, and was able to adjust the plan for a session to better meet the need of attendees. Throughout our arrangement, Esi was always quick to respond and incredibly helpful - it was a delight working with you!
Music Mark is a UK subject association for music education. We approached Celebrating Disability to provide sessions for people teaching young people music in the classroom, and those delivering events, to support the range of requirements they might come across in their work and help make spaces as inclusive as possible.
We will look to develop this learning with our members and others working in music education, and consider how else we can support them to build inclusive learning spaces.
Anonymous
Training and Events Manager, Music Mark
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)