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This Directory contains listings of disability led businesses, owned and run by members of the Disability Leadership Institute.
It is available to search for anyone wishing to use more disabled talent through consulting or to access specialist expertise or services. You are able to contact an individual business directly using the contact form with the listing.
We hope you use this opportunity to use more disabled talent.
If you wish to appoint someone to your team or board, please use our National Register, which lists several hundred disabled people across Australia seeking opportunities. We will share your advertisement directly with those listed on the National Register.
Accessible Action values and promotes the social model of disability and supports organisations to improve outcomes and increase participation for people with disability. Providing functional expertise and valuable lived experience from the perspectives of people with disability, we recognize the importance of access and inclusion in everything we do.
We will undertake a high-level review and analysis of your organisation and work closely with you to engage internal and external stakeholders to develop access plans, strategies, policies and processes to promote access and inclusion.
Accessible Action will provide tailored disability awareness training to improve access and inclusion in your organisation. We will ensure your learning outcomes provide a new perspective on the social model of disability, and shift mindsets to promote access and inclusion of people with disability in your organisation.
Our facilitators will be people with lived experience of disability in order to influence with authenticity and effect meaningful change.
Founded by a person with disability for people with disability, Adapt Virtual Assistance exists to provide an inclusive and accessible platform for people with disability (and other minorities) to take control of their career prospects and learn the foundational skills in becoming a virtual assistant, and for entrepreneurs to seek trustworthy, inclusive assistance for their business.
We firmly believe that everyone deserves a safe and inclusive pathway to meaningful employment. In a country with approximately 4.4 million people who identify as disabled, where only around 39.8% of them are employed, we see an opportunity to make a positive impact.
At Adapt Virtual Assistance, we believe in fostering productive partnerships that benefit both founders and virtual assistants, creating a harmonious and efficient business environment for all involved.
Providing bespoke consulting services to raise awareness around disability and inclusion, as well as helping businesses remove invisible barriers to ensure consumers have a holistically accessible experience.
I am the World’s first quadriplegic designer designing inclusive fashion. I am also an artist, advocate and lawyer, wife and mum. In August 2019 I placed my art work on Fabric and designed a small collection of accessible pieces for exhibition at a gallery in Brisbane. Thereafter I was invited to design a collection of 9 pieces to open an event for the Mercedes Benz Fashion festival Brisbane. I had a total of 12 weeks and all whilst running my own law practice and juggling my role as wife and mum. I have received an overwhelmingly positive response from around the world and much encouragement to launch my own label. My emphasis is on inclusive fashion, many of my designs can be worn by able-bodied as well as persons with disability. I believe people with disability have been left out of the fashion conversation and I want to change that. I like to say “I may be on wheels, but my fashion moves me forward”
Disability Leaders
We are the world's first disability owned and led disability leadership development organisation.
The DLI provides leadership programs that consider your disability as an asset, while surrounded by a supportive community of disability leaders. The DLI promotes our members when they are in the news or appointed to positions. We like to share what disability leaders are up to.
As a fully virtual organisation, we offer membership to disability leaders all over the world. Membership is open to all disabled people everywhere and at all levels.
The DLI also offers Entrepreneurs Membership to disability entrepreneurs. Be part of a supportive community while learning and growing our businesses together.
Check out our online courses and programs.
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DLI Consulting
Our range of specialist consulting and training is designed to support you to support your emerging and established disability leaders.
DLI Consulting uses only disabled people, across the broad expertise of the DLI membership, to work with your organisation by delivering workshops, specialist coaching, and organisational change management.
The DLI is home to the National Register of Disability Leaders - share your opportunities with disability leaders to find the leader you are looking for.
Easy English is a form of accessible information that uses cognitive-load reduction techniques to increase the readability of information.
It is significantly more accessible than plain language and Easy Read.
About Easy English techniques:
The cognitive-load reduction techniques in Easy English
use simple words with one or two syllables where possible
use simple punctuation such as full stop and question mark
break down the information and explain more complicated concepts to foster understanding
- use concrete images to support the text
- format the document to decrease clutter.
How will Easy English help you?
Using Easy English will help your business in many ways through engaging more stakeholders, reducing miscommunications, using time more effectively, estabilishing a reputation as an inclusive organisation.
Talk to us about how we can help you with your accessible information and Easy English needs.
Ebe is an experienced community engagement and inclusion practitioner who is looking to contribute to the creation of a more inclusive and accessible world.
By connecting with individuals, organisations, and businesses looking to improve their understanding of people with disability, accessibility and inclusion, and LGTBQIA+ experiences, Ebe hopes hope to shift the dial towards a society that naturally accommodates and celebrates the identities and experiences of all people.
Ebe offers services across four areas:
1 - Facilitation, Emcee/Host, and Speaking Services
2 - Access and Inclusion Consulting (e.g. workplace inclusion)
3 - Inclusive Practice Training and Supervision
4 - Consultation and Evaluation Services
Ebe uses her Masters of Disability and Inclusion, together with professional experience across the public, private, and community sectors to provide training, advice and consulting services, impact measurement and evaluation, and facilitation of large and small events. She underpins this with lived, educational, and professional experience in disability studies, neurodiversity, LGBTQIA+ experiences, diversity and inclusion, inclusive communication, stakeholder engagement, and project management. Her experiences as a senior officer, advocate, project manager, and subject-matter expert provide a strong basis for understanding your working context, challenges, and opportunities. Ebe is an experienced conference host and event emcee.
Reach out if you're looking for a young, energetic, disability leader to support your organisation.
electro: consulting was founded by Shevonne Joyce due to demand for her services. It's disability and neurodivergent owned and led and hires diverse consultants #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
electro: is working with a range of clients, from global brands to small - medium-sized businesses who all have one thing in common: they are the changemakers, the visionaries, and best practice minded.
GetAboutAble is a leading Australian accessible tourism consultancy, supporting tourism businesses to improve their access and inclusion.
20% of the population has access needs, including vision, hearing, mobility, neurodiversity and hidden disabilities. That’s 1 in 5 people who actively seek accessible and inclusive venues and experiences. GetAboutAble not only supports tourism operators to enhance travel and leisure opportunities for people with disability (PWD), but also to tap into the “disabled dollar” and market to this valuable audience.
By providing a wide range of consulting services and coordinating the annual Accessible & Inclusive Tourism Conference, GetAboutAble strives to change industry mindsets and business practices, promoting social participation and employment for people with disability throughout the tourism industry.
Heidi La Paglia Reid (she/her) is a proud Autistic, queer and disabled consultant and advocate living in Muwinina Country, in Lutriwita, Hobart, Tasmania. Heidi has over a decade of experience working in professional and voluntary roles in the disability and women's rights sector as well as extensive personal experience navigating chronic health conditions and disability. After becoming a mother in 2022 and finding juggling employment, disability and parenting inaccessible, Heidi set up her consulting business.
In her consultancy, Heidi specialises in gender equity, disability rights and neuro-inclusion and is passionate about transforming organisations, political movements and spaces to ensure are are safe for and accessible to communities who experience intersectional marginalisation .
Heidi offers services in a range of areas such as research, report writing, project management, facilitation, public speaking, neurodiversity training and more.