The Neurodiversity @ Work Playbook: Employee Engagement & Growth Series augments the original Playbook by focusing on best practices and lessons learned related to supporting growth and advancement. This series includes research-based content combined with best practices and lessons learned from over 20 employers including neurotypical and neurodivergent program leads.
Walmart supports associates who own their story, understand the transformative power of storytelling and who possess the courage to share. Walmart's goal is to foster a culture that invites storytelling and that lifts the storyteller up through supportive empathy. That’s the backdrop for “My Disability. My Story.” -- a [...]
Walgreens has an active disAbility Alliance Business Resource Group (dA) that partners with diversity and inclusion in building a culture of inclusion for employees with disabilities. The dA has implemented disability-focused member networking events for which it invites members to share stories of their experiences with disabilities, either as [...]
The United Services Automobile Association (USAA) holds three employee speaker series events each year focused on employees to share their personal diversity and inclusion stories, often related to disability. Suggested themes include be yourself, embrace uniqueness, inspire belonging, create healthy challenge, pursue progress over perfection, drive accountability, resiliency, inclusion, [...]
TD Bank recognized National Disability Employment Awareness Month to raise awareness about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of workers with disabilities. TD posted weekly videos about colleagues on the AccessAbility Connections and TeamWow!, the most frequently used communication mediums by employees. TD also hosted [...]
The Rush Americans with Disabilities Act Task Force develops and implements policies for people with disabilities and educates the Rush community about accommodating people with disabilities as employees, students, faculty members and patients. The task force is composed of high-level administrators, faculty and students. The ADA Task Force also [...]
Raytheon Company (now part of Raytheon Technologies) launched the #iCount Self-Identification campaign, leveraging videos with employee testimonials, employee blogs, and e-mails from senior leaders to demonstrate the commitment to create an environment where everyone believes that every employee counts. In this campaign, whether or not you have a disability, [...]
Northwestern Mutual's disAbility Alliance Employee Resource Group (ERG), with support from leadership, promotes a culture of open sharing from employees and hosts awareness and educational events throughout the year. For example, the ERG hosted a discussion on managing stress with a panel comprised of employees, a manager and an [...]
LinkedIn hosted a virtual accessibility hackathon for all employees. The hack gave participants two prompts: one about utilizing the LinkedIn platform to close the disability employment gap, and one about making LinkedIn a more inclusive company for employees with disabilities. Moreover, LinkedIn is also building out a multi-year strategy [...]
The Abilities in Motion (AIM) BRG at KPMG, along with the National Inclusion & Diversity team, has put together several webcasts that are available to the entire firm to learn about how individuals experience the firm from the lens of someone with a disability and from the lens of [...]