I am excited to be presenting as part of a team at the 8th Annual Raise the Bar HIRE! Conference in October. This is the annual conference of Work Without Limits. Work Without Limits is a nonprofit network of employers, educational institutions, employment service providers, state and federal agencies, individuals with disabilities and their family members. Through collaboration and partnership, their goal is to increase the employment of people with disabilities until it is equal to those without disabilities.
The other presenters for this session includes Sean Driscoll of BB Squared Consulting, Lisa Drennan of Merge Consulting, and Meghan Steinberg of Steinberg HR. We will join forces for The Challenge for Accessibility and Inclusion Amidst a Landscape of Pandemic Forces and Racial Unrest: Four Professionals: Four Perspectives.
The realization that COVID-19 brought to our landscapes, combined with the nation’s unrest around race and racial inequities, have spotlighted the gaps and continued challenges for vulnerable communities. One of the earliest spotlights streamed onto the challenges around access and inclusion in the reactive necessity of remote connectivity during isolation. Challenges around access and inclusion are certainly not new to the Disability community, but have been elevated more during this time; new awareness around how and/or if we are creating accessible and inclusive enough spaces for the Disability diverse community and all diverse identities is evolving. As four peer small business consultancies, we found ourselves talking about these themes as we brainstormed and began working and existing in the remote landscapes which had escalated around us. Like everyone else, we’d had no time to prepare, but are living the experience in real time as we move forward. We’ve begun learning as we go, and we wanted to create a space to share our perspectives around this important theme. But we also want to elicit experiential observations, feelings AND contribution from all and any stakeholders who want to listen, talk and share.
A woman-owned company based in Boston, Pillar Search & HR Consulting provides executive search and human resources consulting expertise to nonprofit and mission-driven organizations, working with senior leaders and boards of directors to hire and develop the very best talent across all functional areas of the organization. For more information, please contact Cindy Joyce at cindy@pillarsearch.com
