The LaunchPad Series

A disability inclusion programme designed for organisations ready to move from intention to implementation. LaunchPad supports organisations to embed disability inclusion across workplace culture, leadership conversations and everyday practice through a clear and practical disability inclusion roadmap for long term change.

Launchpad

What Is the Launchpad Series?

Many organisations already recognise the importance of disability inclusion but struggle to know where to begin, how to create momentum across the organisation, or how to turn policies into consistent action. LaunchPad provides a structured disability inclusion approach through 13 practical sessions that build confidence, understanding and organisation-wide inclusion over time.

Designed for organisations looking to make a genuine investment in inclusion, LaunchPad also creates opportunities for future partnership work, enabling support to continue as priorities, challenges and organisational goals evolve.

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Organisation-Wide Delivery

Curated Content

Sessions have been constructed to compliment and organisation wide approach. Influencing a structured disability inclusion approach that enables the development of a workplace inclusion culture. The content plan is designed to build on previous knowledge, starting with the foundations and moving to confident, competent implementation. Turning disability inclusion policies sustainable, implementable practice.

1

The Social Model of Disability

Many people still think disability is about someone’s medical condition. This session introduces the social model, showing how social barriers disable people and what we can do about them.
2

Inclusive Language

“I don’t know what to say—I just want to get it right.” If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. This module breaks down the fear of saying the wrong thing and gives you the tools to speak with confidence and respect.
3

Reasonable Adjustments

People often ask, “What does a reasonable adjustment actually look like?” This session clarifies your responsibilities and offers real-world examples to help you confidently support disabled colleagues.
4

Disability Disclosure

“I want people to feel safe telling us what they need.” This session explores how to create a workplace culture that encourages open conversations, without putting pressure on anyone to share more than they want to.
5

Business as Usual Inclusion

Inclusion isn’t something to ‘add on.’ It should be part of everyday business. This session helps you weave inclusive practice into day-to-day decisions, so it becomes second nature.
6

Inclusive Recruitment

“We want to be more inclusive when we hire, but don’t know where to start.” This module offers practical steps to make recruitment accessible, from job adverts to onboarding.
7

Unravelling Discrimination

“I don’t think we’re doing anything wrong—but are we missing something?” This session helps uncover the hidden barriers and everyday assumptions that can unintentionally exclude disabled people.
8

Neurodiversity at Work

“We want to support neurodivergent colleagues but don’t want to assume.” This session explores the variety of experiences under the neurodiversity umbrella and shows how flexibility benefits everyone.
9

Mental Health and Wellbeing

“We talk about mental health, but I’m not sure how to really support people.” This module provides practical ways to promote well-being, challenge stigma, and create psychologically safe environments.
10

Business and Legal Case

“Why should disability inclusion be a priority?” This session breaks down the legal obligations and shows the clear business benefits, like employee engagement, reputation, and talent retention.
11

Inclusive Events

“We didn’t realise our events weren’t accessible until someone said something.” This session helps you think ahead and design meetings and events where everyone feels welcome and included.
12

Great Customer Experience

“We want to serve disabled customers better, but we don’t want to offend anyone.” This module shows how to remove barriers and offer excellent service without awkwardness or assumptions.
13

Disability History

“Why are we only talking about this now?” This session explores the long, often ignored history of disability rights and how understanding the past helps us build a more inclusive future. Are you looking for an event for Disability History Month? This would be perfect!

How It Works

Rather than focusing on one single area of disability inclusion, the programme connects employee experience, practical implementation and workplace culture change. Sessions are designed to create meaningful conversations, shared understanding and sustainable progress, helping organisations build stronger foundations for long-term disability inclusion work.

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Organisation-Wide Inclusion

Designed to support organisation-wide inclusion across different teams, departments and levels of seniority. Sessions can be delivered to different groups across the organisation, helping build shared understanding while keeping learning relevant to individual roles and responsibilities.

Flexible Disability Inclusion Roadmap

The structure can be adapted to reflect organisational priorities, existing knowledge and areas of focus. Session order and delivery can be tailored to create a disability inclusion roadmap that aligns with current goals, challenges and workplace culture.

Structured Disability Inclusion Approach

Regular check-ins are built into the programme to support reflection, implementation and ongoing progress. This structured disability inclusion approach helps organisations move beyond one off conversations and maintain momentum throughout the programme.

Informing Long Term Workplace Culture Change

LaunchPad is designed to support long-term workplace culture change by identifying themes, barriers and opportunities throughout delivery. Learning and insights gathered during the programme can help inform future disability inclusion priorities, partnership work and next steps across the organisation.

To tackle the practical side of disability inclusion

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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)

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