Barriers made relatable
Lived experience brings barriers to life, making their impact easier to articulate.
The Approach
Embedding Disability Inclusion Into Company Culture
Your organisation may already have the policies, strategy and intent. Our role is to help turn that into clear, consistent action, so managers feel more confident, decisions are made with more clarity and disabled employees know what support looks like in practice.
Our Approach
Developing your disability inclusion policy into everyday working practice
You work in the equality, diversity and inclusion space because equality and inclusion of everyone means a lot to you. Therefore, when commissioning an external provider to turn disability inclusion policies into practice, they match your passion.
In Celebrating Disability, this is more than a job. This is a commitment to enabling every colleague, employee, candidate, client and customer to have an equitable opportunity. To embed disability inclusion into workplace culture, every line manager, strategic leader, executive board member and team member must understand their role in creating a culture that includes everyone. So that everyone has a sense of belonging and is their authentic selves in the workplace.
We work with teams and managers to:
- Recognise how processes and ways of working prevent disabled employees from achieving them and find alternative solutions
- Remove disability disadvantage by developing conscious and considerate pathways to enable disabled employees to achieve
- Confidently engage in regular conversations about support and reasonable adjustments
- Develop working knowledge of legal responsibilities and obligations to disabled employees
Disability Consultants
Offering an alternative to generic corporate diversity e-learning
Embedding disability inclusion into company culture becomes much easier when collaborating with people and groups who understand the daily challenges faced by both sides. Working internally with your ERG is as an important step to making this a reality.
Consultants with lived experience of the barriers disabled employees and candidates face help make your disability inclusion strategy and policies a reality. Disabled consultants are trained professionals with expert knowledge of disability equality, workplace legislation, and company culture.
This background enables our clients to benefit from expert knowledge that informs how strategies can be successfully implemented.
A fresh perspective
Viewing situations differently, asking difficult questions and un covering opportunities others may have missed.
Flexible support
Support shaped around your priorities, timescales and organisation.
Building confidence in your teams
Turning insights into learning, enabling line managers to make better decisions and take action.
Working With You
Built with your organisation, not delivered to it
Lasting disability inclusion is not created by dropping a one-size-fits-all programme into an organisation. It works best when the support is shaped around your people, policies, culture and goals.
That is why we work in partnership from the start. We listen carefully, ask the right questions and build training or consultancy around what your organisation is trying to achieve, so the work feels practical, relevant and easier to apply.
- We begin by learning how your organisation works, what is already in place and where people need more clarity or confidence.
- The support is shaped around your goals, your teams and the situations people are likely to face in everyday working life.
- As the work develops, we use feedback, reflection and discussion to refine the approach and support meaningful progress.
The Approach
Guidance grounded in real experience
Celebrating Disability brings together lived experience, professional inclusion expertise and practical delivery across a wide range of organisations.
Our work is shaped by what helps people make progress in the real world: clearer conversations, more confident managers and disability inclusion that becomes easier to apply day to day.
- 4.6/5
- Outcome Success Rating
- 136
- Clients Supported
- 400+
- Sessions Delivered
- 91%
- Disclosure Increase
*Including projects for: Moneybox, Historic England, and The Social Innovation Partnership
Our Team
People who bring inclusion to life
Celebrating Disability is made up of disabled trainers, consultants and speakers who bring lived experience, professional knowledge and practical insight into every piece of work.
Zaineb Hadi
Zaineb is an access consultant and trainer, and a member of the UK Access Association. Zaineb previously worked in film...
Eveline Mujinya
Eveline (Eve) is a multi-skilled professional whose background ranges from an applied research space within medical technology, sales consultancy, and...
Demothenes Caldis
Demos trained as a lawyer and now works in energy regulation. He has actively advocated for disability and LGBTQ+ inclusion...
The Equality Edit Podcast
Listening is part of the work
The Equality Edit is where we continue the conversations that shape our approach to disability inclusion. Through honest discussions with disabled people, workplace leaders and people working across inclusion, we explore what helps organisations move from good intentions to practical change.
What’s Missing From Bereavement Support?
What’s missing from bereavement support? Michelle Clayford explores the human experiences that can be overlooked and how more inclusive approaches can better support employees, customers and the people around us.
Featured Download
Start with the right questions
Good disability inclusion work begins with understanding what is really happening inside your organisation. This free resource helps you reflect on your current policies, processes and manager confidence, so you can start to see where support is working and where it may need more clarity.
Use it to shape better internal conversations, prepare for training or consultancy, and begin turning disability inclusion from a written commitment into everyday practice.
Policy Into Practice Guide
A practical resource for HR, EDI and learning leaders who want to understand where disability inclusion is working, where people need more confidence, and what to focus on next.
- Questions to assess how your policies are being applied
- Prompts for understanding manager confidence
- Ways to identify where support feels unclear or inconsistent
- Ideas for turning reflection into practical next steps
Trusted by Organisations Across Sectors
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)