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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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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.
Tania Rose (She/They|AuADHDer) offers neurodiversity-affirming and queer-affirming psychotherapy, clinical supervision, education, research, and creative practice for people and practitioners interested in more thoughtful, humane ways of understanding themselves, their work, and the systems they move through. Their work is grounded in a commitment to meaning-making, complexity, curiosity, and the belief that people are not problems to be fixed, but lives to be understood in context.
Their clinical practice focuses particularly on working with Neurodivergent adults, supporting clients to move beyond deficit-based narratives and develop more compassionate, congruent, and sustainable ways of living. Tania’s approach recognises the impact of social, relational, sensory, emotional, and workplace environments, and invites clients to make sense of their experiences without reducing them to pathology.
Alongside their psychotherapy practice, Tania provides clinical supervision and education for practitioners who want to deepen their reflective capacity, expand their neurodiversity-affirming practice, and engage more critically with the assumptions embedded in traditional therapeutic models. Tania's supervision style is thoughtful, relational, and gently challenging, offering space for complexity rather than rushing toward tidy answers.
Tania is also undertaking PhD disability research into workplace wellbeing of creative practitioners, exploring how people, systems, and organisational cultures shape the conditions in which humans are expected to function, connect, and thrive. This research informs a broader interest in creating more sustainable, psychologically intelligent, and humane workplaces.
As a musician and creative practitioner, Tania brings a creative sensibility to their work, attuned to rhythm, voice, emotion, dissonance, and expression. Across therapy, supervision, education, research, and music, the work is united by a central aim: to help people make meaning, question unhelpful systems, and create more spacious ways of being with themselves, each other, and the peculiar social experiment we call work.
Your business has a story - all it needs is the right person to tell it.
That’s why you need a wordsmith. Someone who can step in, craft the exact turns of phrase and put the best words in the right order to smash your business goals out of the park.
Wordsmith By DK was founded for exactly that purpose. My name’s Danielle, I’m an award-winning neurodivergent journalist and communications specialist. I’ve spent more than ten years dealing with the intricacies of finding the right words for the job. Now, I’m sharing that skill with you. Specialising in disability and neurodivergence, I bring an inclusive lens to my work. With experience perfecting communications in corporates, not for profits, tertiary institutions and government, I’ve got the know-how to make you the go-to in your field. Whether you’ve got a press release that needs writing, an audio story to cut and script, a speech to draft for that all-important gig, or social media pages that need filling, I can help. Unsure how to put your business out there? Let me tailor a bespoke communications strategy to support your business goals. By combining my journalistic experience and communications expertise, I can take the stress out of media relations and comms for you - and get you the airtime you need.
But wait, there's more!
I'm also an engaging and confident public speaker. I've had the privilege of sharing my knowledge of media literacy and disability representation and inclusion with classrooms, businesses and community groups around Victoria. If that sounds like something you need, get in touch and let's work something out - while I can't promise you steak knives, you can be sure I'll deliver an evidence-based, curriculum-focused, context-appropriate presentation, rooted in real-life and lived experience that won't put the audience to sleep.
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.