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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.
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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.
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.
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)
Yenn Purkis can provide presentations, writing in many formats, consultation services, mentoring and coaching. Yenn has worked with a large number of organisations to support them in relation to inclusion and respect for neurodivergent folks and those with psychosocial disability.
Yenn has been working in the advocacy and inclusion space for over 20 years, They have (currently) 17 published books and have given talks all over the world. Yenn has given two TEDx talks (2013 about resilience and 2023 about gender diversity and autism). Yenn can tailor presentations and writing to the needs of the audience and is flexible to the needs of the customer.
Yenn can from a strong perspective of the social model of disability and all their work is informed by the concept of 'different not less. They are also non-binary and asexual and identify strongly in the Queer pride space. Their work encompasses an intersectionality approach.
Yenn works with a number of organisations around inclusion in the disability and neurodiversity and Queer pride spaces. Yenn is highly proficient and professional and has a significant work ethic and a sense of pride in all they do.
Yenn's fees are reasonable - feel free to contact them for a quote.