Esi Hardy
Hi, I’m Esi. I am owner and Managing Director of Celebrating Disability. I founded and established Celebrating Disability in January...
Meet The Team
Celebrating Disability Team
A collective of trainers, consultants and advocates — all with lived and professional experience of disability. Our team is united by a shared goal: to support your organisation in creating a workplace that’s truly inclusive of disabled people.
Meet The Team
Our Approach to Disability Inclusion
There is no such thing as a one size fits all. Every organisation is different — and so are the barriers disabled people face. That’s why we take the time to get to know your goals, challenges and culture before recommending the right approach.
We combine professional knowledge with lived experience to create training, consultancy and talks that are relevant, practical and genuinely impactful. Every session is interactive, tailored, and shaped around the real-world experiences of disabled people.
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Everyone at Celebrating Disability
Together, we bring a wealth of lived and professional experience to our work.
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...
Zaineb Hadi
Zaineb is an access consultant and trainer, and a member of the UK Access Association. Zaineb previously worked in film...
Kim Edwards
Kim provides operational and administrative support at Celebrating Disability, ensuring that projects and events run smoothly behind the scenes. With over...
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)