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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.
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.
As a team of dedicated, passionate individuals, we are neurodivergent ourselves, blending our lived experience with professional qualifications to foster safe spaces where neurodivergents and their families can embrace their authentic selves through 'Authenticity Architecture'©.
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.