Disability Inclusion Guest Speaker for Workplace Events

Book a guest speaker with lived and professional experience of disability. Whether it's a company-wide event or a talk for your internal network, we'll tailor the session to help your team build confidence and spark meaningful conversations about disability inclusion.

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What to Expect from a Guest Talk

Every talk is shaped around your organisation’s needs, so no two are the same. But here’s what you can always expect when booking a guest speaker through Celebrating Disability:

Outcome-focused talks that are engaging and interactive
Providing insight into barriers internally in your workplace
Tangible solutions to immediately implement
Call to action for everyone to take away
Shared data and insights to enable clarity around next steps

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Driving Awareness and Inclusion

Here's How It Works

Booking a guest speaker with Celebrating Disability is straightforward and collaborative:

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Understand Your Goals

If you don’t know what they are, we will guide you through the process.

Deliver the Talk

A Celebrating Disability associate will deliver the disability inclusion talk, providing opportunities for engagement, interaction and feedback.

Reflect and Follow Up

The data gathered will be analysed and shared, providing a great opportunity to consider the next steps, whether that be the Launchpad series, disability inclusion training, or a Gap Analysis Assessment.

Themes

Popular Talk Themes

Every talk is tailored, but here are some of the most requested topics we’re asked to cover:

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General Disability Awareness

Inclusive Workplaces

Reasonable Adjustments

Inclusive Events

Other Services

Other ways we can support you.

Inclusion training is what we are best known for, but it is one of several ways we can support your organisation. Whatever stage you are at, these services work on their own or alongside your training to keep momentum going.

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Inclusion Training

Interactive, ongoing sessions delivered by facilitators with lived and professional experience, shaped around your people, your industry and your goals.

LaunchPad

A pre-built series of short sessions on the most common inclusion challenges. A practical way to get started and spot where to focus before bespoke work.

Consultancy

Hands-on support to review your policies, processes and culture, then turn them into consistent, everyday practice, from gap analysis to implementation.

To tackle the practical side of disability inclusion

Frequently Asked Questions

Practical solutions to help workplaces turn disability inclusion policy into everyday working practice.

Do you provide training for neurodiversity in the workplace?

Yes, Celebrating Disability delivers neurodiversity training in the workplace. However, we advise that neurodiversity is not viewed in isolation from wider disability inclusion strategies.

Many of the barriers neurodivergent employees experience overlap with broader workplace barriers, such as communication, accessibility, and lack of awareness, leading to bias and inconsistent support. Taking a broader disability inclusion approach helps create more consistent, sustainable inclusion practices from the beginning, rather than adding strategies retrospectively.

This approach also helps senior leaders and line managers implement disability inclusion strategies more confidently in everyday practice. Many disabled people are intersectionally disabled and may experience multiple barriers at the same time. Building inclusion into workplace culture from the outset creates more consistent experiences, improves psychological safety and reduces the need to continually retrofit support later on.

Practical disability inclusion training helps improve conversations about support, build confidence around reasonable adjustments, and promote inclusive management practices for neurodivergent and disabled employees.

How do we turn our disability inclusion policy into practice?

Many organisations already have disability inclusion policies in place, but struggle to turn that disability inclusion policy into practice consistently across the organisation.

One of the biggest reasons is line manager confidence. Managers are often expected to support disabled employees without practical guidance on reasonable adjustments, conversations about support or identifying barriers in everyday work. This can lead to uncertainty, inconsistent decision-making and delays in support.

Disability inclusion psychological safety also plays an important role. If employees do not feel safe discussing barriers or requesting adjustments, organisations may wrongly assume their policies are working effectively.

Turning disability inclusion policy into practice requires more than written commitments. It involves creating a culture where managers feel confident applying policies in real situations and disabled employees feel safe engaging in conversations about support.

Practical, implementation-focused line manager training helps organisations bridge the gap between policy and everyday practice, creating more consistent and inclusive experiences for disabled employees.

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)

Disability Inclusion Guest Speaker for Workplace Events

What to Expect from a Guest Talk

Here's How It Works

Understand Your Goals

Deliver the Talk

Reflect and Follow Up

Popular Talk Themes

General Disability Awareness

Inclusive Workplaces

Reasonable Adjustments

Inclusive Events

Other ways we can support you.

Inclusion Training

LaunchPad

Consultancy

Frequently Asked Questions

What Our Partners Say

Let’s Talk About Inclusion