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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.
Heidi La Paglia (she/her) is a proud Autistic, queer and disabled consultant and advocate living in Muwinina Country, in Lutruwita, 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 has been working in the disability and Queer advocacy spaces since 2005. They have written 18 published books and have two further titles under contract. Yenn has been a public speaker since 2002 including twice for TEDx Canberra. Yenn can speak on a number of topics to audiences of any size. Yenn spent 17 years in the public service and has worked in executive leadership in the disability sector. Yenn also provides consultancy and mentoring services including peer mentoring for people with NDIS plans. Yenn is an experienced facilitator and has been part of a large number of boards and committees. They also provide writing and editing services.