Disability inclusion in the workplace is an ever-changing target, and every company is on their own journey. Whether your company is just getting started or has been focused in the disability space for a long time, there are fundamental and foundational best practices that are critical for sustained success. This session will examine crucial elements of a holistic disability inclusion strategy, including corporate culture, reasonable accommodations, self identification campaigns, talent acquisition, and scaling globally.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the crucial components of a disability-inclusive corporate culture and how to implement and integrate them at your company.
- Gain insights on best practices for reasonable accommodations, self identification campaigns, talent acquisition, global scalability, and other aspects of a disability inclusion strategy.
- Understand how to make the business case for additional resources for your disability inclusion initiatives and how to measure and report results to maintain executive-level support.
Moderator:
Tara Baucom – Audit Partner at KPMG
Panelists:
- Carol Saieva – Worldwide Director Medical Affairs at Associate Health
- Hillary Wool – Principal at Boston Consulting Group
- Gabriela Burgardt – Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Project Manager at Nestle
- Meg Filer – Senior Program Manager – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Internal Partnerships at Blue Origin