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Develop, support, promote disability leaders

Consulting

Accessible Action Logo
Business Genre
Short Business Description
Accessible Action creates action for access. Our purpose is to enable our customers to progress their access and inclusion journey by developing strategies, policies and processes to include people with disability from a customer, community and employee perspective.
Long Business Description

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.

Business Website Address
Business Address
PO BOX 7250
MELBOURNE VIC
3004
Adapt virtual assistance
Short Business Description
Adapt Virtual Assistance is an inclusive and accessible platform for people with disability to take control of their career prospects and learn the foundational skills in becoming a virtual assistant.

We are also a space for Entrepreneurs to source trustworthy help within their business, and receive the necessary tools to onboard their new VA.
Long Business Description

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.

Business Website Address
Business Address
PO Box 535, Narellan, NSW, Australia
2567
Ainslee Hooper Consulting
Business Genre
Short Business Description
I help businesses remove invisible barriers through a holistic approach to accessibility
Long Business Description

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.

Business Website Address
Business Phone Number
0428006659
Business Fax
Ainslee Hooper Consulting
Business Address
3217
Disability Leadership Institute
Short Business Description
The Disability Leadership Institute provides leadership development, support and promotion for disability leaders.
Long Business Description

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.

leadership development
leadership coaching
leadership assessments
members community of practice
entrepreneurs community

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.

Business Website Address
Business Phone Number
we prefer video meetings
Business Fax
Disability Leadership Institute
Business Address
GPO Box 28, Canberra ACT
2601
Easy English Example. Text reads “We are Easy English 4 u. We write Easy English. You have important information. Like about health, money. You must share it with others. We can write the fact sheet in Easy English for you. It is so more people understand your information.
Business Name
Short Business Description
We create accessible information for your audience.
Long Business Description

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.

Business Website Address
Business Address
3555
Ebe Ganon: Community Engagement and Inclusion Practitioner
Business Genre
Short Business Description
Ebe is an energetic, knowledgeable, and Canberra-based community engagement and inclusion practitioner ready to support your organisation with facilitation, emcee, and speaker services.
Long Business Description

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.

Business Website Address
Business Phone Number
0412 817 800
Business Address
Canberra-based, willing to travel.
2612
electro: consulting logo with navy, copper and oat colours
Business Name
Business Genre
Short Business Description
electro: consulting helps clients to build future-ready businesses and genuinely inspiring workplaces. Working across people, brand, operations, and tech, we help you take the big leap or the next step.
Long Business Description

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.

Heidi La Paglia Reid Consulting
Short Business Description
Heidi is an experienced researcher, contractor and consultant specialising in intersectional feminism, disability and neuro-inclusion.
As an Autistic disabled woman, Heidi brings a lived experience lens to all of her services and can work with you to harness the expertise in your community.

Long Business Description

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.

Business Website Address
Business Address
7011
Dr Martin Raffaele (Founder)
Business Name
Business Genre
Short Business Description
We at Inclusif remove the stigmas that force people either into silence or exclusion when living with a neurodisability through developing neurodiversity and inclusion.
Long Business Description

Inclusif is built on case-based-learning that was originally constructed through video course modules to educate future healthcare professionals in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney (USYD). This providing students at both an Undergraduate and Master of Rehabilitation Counselling level about the day-to-day aspects of living with a debilitating condition, like epilepsy following two brain surgery procedures. It is this first-person perspective that accommodates Dr Martin Raffaele four degrees at USYD that gives the business the knowledge on what is necessary for understanding a condition like epilepsy and the benefits of building a plan for neurodiversity in a business. Developed and located at USYD, Inclusif is the step to creating great diversity, equality and inclusion into general society, which includes the workforce.

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Business Phone Number
+61422582902
Business Fax
University of Sydney
Business Address
Wentworth Building, Incubate Hub, Level 4, 2 Butlin Ave, The University of Sydney, NSW
2008
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Business Genre
Short Business Description
NDIS & Disability Policy Consultant and Non-Executive Director blending professional expertise with lived experience of deafblindness.
Long Business Description

NDIS & Disability Policy Consultant and Non-Executive Director blending professional expertise with lived experience of deafblindness.

Expertise

NDIS, national and state disability policy including NDIS Review and Disability Royal Commission reforms
Accessibilityand disability
Governance and leadership,  including advisory on accessible and inclusive boardroom/workplace leadership practice

Type of work

Consultations
Research and analysis
Policy submissions
Public speaking
Media and writing
Project work
Advisory (disability/accessibility/governance)

Business Website Address
Business Address
Brisbane, Queensland