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 [...]
GDIT’s AbilityFirst ERG established an "All Things Accessible” Council that partners with key stakeholders across the company to infuse accessibility in how they procure and deploy technology. One positive outcome of this Council is a monthly “Accessibility Tip” offered by their Communications Department for all employees as they interact [...]
The DXC Dandelion Program is an initiative designed to build valuable information technology skills and careers for individuals on the autism spectrum. Combining the use of robotics with commercial IT industry teaching and methodology, the focus of the program is on building and developing technical, life and executive functioning [...]
Dell’s True Ability ERG provides support and advocacy for those with disabilities, ensuring all team members can innovate in their own unique ways. True Ability consults with the Dell Benefits team to support employee needs and provide employees assistance in understanding and optimizing available benefits. True Ability also partnered [...]