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Ebe is an award-winning community engagement and inclusion practitioner creating lasting change through evidence-based approaches that move beyond compliance to genuine inclusion.
Working with government, education, community, and private sector organisations, Ebe combines lived experience as a neurodivergent person with disability with extensive professional expertise across public, private, and community sectors. Her goal is shifting the dial towards a society that naturally accommodates and celebrates the identities and experiences of all people.
Ebe offers services across three key areas:
1) Training - Delivering tailored, evidence-based training that creates lasting change including neurodiversity in the workplace, disability confidence and accessibility, inclusive communication, LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and Universal Design for Learning. All training moves beyond generic awareness-raising to provide practical strategies teams can implement immediately.
2) Facilitation and consultation - Expert co-design facilitation, stakeholder consultation, focus groups, and program evaluation using inclusive engagement practices. Extensive experience working with people with disability, children and young people, and traditionally marginalised communities in groups ranging from one-on-one to several hundred participants.
3) Event and speaker services - Thought-provoking keynote presentations, engaging event hosting and MC services, and authentic lived experience perspectives for panels and discussions. Topics include creating inclusive workplaces, implementing Universal Design principles, and amplifying marginalised voices in decision-making.
Ebe holds a Master of Disability and Inclusion from Deakin University and currently serves as Deputy Chair of Children and Young People with Disability Australia. As the 2024 winner of the National Awards for Disability Leadership Change Making Award, she brings both strategic thinking and practical implementation skills to every engagement.
Her professional and lived experience provide a strong foundation for understanding diverse working contexts, challenges, and opportunities across sectors.
Ready to create genuine change? Connect with Ebe at www.ebeganon.com.au ✨
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.
