Hi, I’m Kate Dean, founder of Enable Disability & Inclusion Consultants Ltd.
Prior to setting up Enable Disability & Inclusion Consultants Ltd in 2020, I spent over a decade leading and managing student facing disability support teams in universities in the UK. I am passionate about removing barriers and creating inclusive spaces where people can thrive.
I have extensive experience of identifying adjustments, enabling technologies and strategies to ensure people can work to their strengths, and have led numerous projects to identify and remove barriers and embed inclusion.
I have managed large teams with disabled team members, worked with 1000s of disabled students over the years and bring my own lived experience, and strengths of, neurodiversity to my work.
We specialise in neurodiversity, mental health and unseen conditions (also known as hidden or invisible disabilities) and seek to reframe the conversation around neurodiversity and disability, by challenging the many myths and misconceptions that are out there about what disabled people can and can’t do.
Why Does My Company need a Disability & Inclusion Consultant?
20% of the working-age population in the UK have a disability or long-term condition
- 15-20% of the population are neurodivergent, for example dyslexic, dyspraxic, ADHD or autistic
83% of people acquire a disability throughout their working lives, either gradually or suddenly
1 in 4 of the population experience a mental health challenge each year
Your workforce may reflect these numbers, but it may not.
If not, do you know the reason for this?
- Are you confident you have asked the right questions and created a space where your workforce feel safe to share their disability, neurodiversity or long-term condition with you?
- Do your workforce attend work as their authentic selves able to perform at their best, or are they masking something or not working to their full potential?
- Are your line managers and HR teams appropriately trained and empowered to have conversations around disability and identify appropriate adjustments?
How does your business benefit from meaningful inclusion?
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Taking time to examine where barriers exist in your policies, processes and practices can bring numerous benefits to your organisation. Often barriers remain invisible unless experienced, but can exist in recruitment processes, policies and procedures and day-to-day working practices.
- For your reputation: become an employer of choice.
- For your productivity: get the best skillset by being able to recruit from the widest talent pool.
- For your continuity and growth: benefit from a workforce working to its strengths.
- For your employee engagement and retention: when the workforce feels included and that they belong, they stay.
At Enable Disability & Inclusion Consultants Ltd, we offer end-to-end solution focused support to enable organisations to remove barriers to high performance through meaningful inclusion.