Disability Awareness to True Inclusion
Tailored training, guest speaking and consultancy to help your organisation build a workplace where disabled people feel valued, supported and included.
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Where to Start?
Understanding Inclusion
If you’re at the beginning of your disability inclusion journey, the best place to start is by understanding disability awareness in the workplace.
Disability is broad, varied, and intersectional. To create a workplace where disabled people can thrive, it’s important to recognise the barriers they currently face. Once those are understood, developing solutions that remove or reduce those easier barriers becomes easier in collaboration with those affected.
This is where disability awareness in the workplace makes a real difference.
We recommend starting with a talk from a disabled guest speaker. This gives your whole organisation a shared knowledge, awareness, and empathy foundation. It’s a practical way to introduce the concepts of disability inclusion and show what everyone can start doing right now to support disabled colleagues and customers.
What will encourage employees to tell us about their disability?
How do we ask disabled people what support they need?
How do we develop a disability inclusive culture?
What We Do
Every Business Works to Their Own Goals, We Want to Support You.
At Celebrating Disability, we tailor every service to where your business is on its inclusion journey. Whether you’re just getting started or ready to embed long-term change, we’ll meet you there.
Founded by Esi Hardy — a disabled trainer, speaker and consultant with both lived and professional experience — we support organisations through personalised training, guest speaking, and consultancy.
We can help you:
- Engage positively in conversations about disability and with disabled people
- Design recruitment processes that attract and support disabled candidates
- Build tools and resources for line managers to offer meaningful support
- Create inclusive events that genuinely welcome disabled people
- Embed inclusive practices into day-to-day operations
We talk about disability from a pan perspective. This includes talking about inclusion for people from the following impairment groups:
- Neurodiversity
- Sensory impairments
- Long-term health conditions
- Mental health impairments
- Physical impairments
- Learning impairments
Our Services
How We Work With You
Wherever your organisation is on its inclusion journey, we’ll meet you there. All of our services are tailored to your needs — whether you’re just getting started or ready to embed long-term change.
Guest Speaking
Kickstart awareness across your organisation with a thought-provoking talk from a disabled speaker.
Launchpad Series
For organisations that know they need to do something but aren’t sure where to start. This pre-built series of 13 sessions covers the most common inclusion topics and helps you identify key gaps, ideal before moving into bespoke training or strategy work.
On-Going Training
Interactive, ongoing training designed for your employees, delivered by facilitators with lived experience of disability. These sessions are shaped around your people, your industry and your goals — and typically form part of a longer-term partnership.
Project Based Consultancy
For organisations committed to embedding long-term change. From gap analysis to project-based consulting, we’ll support you to design strategies and implement solutions that remove barriers and support disabled people to thrive.
Understanding
Inclusion Is More Than Access
Many workplaces lack physical access — and this is often seen as the main barrier. As a result, some organisations believe they can’t be accessible or work effectively with disabled people.
While the built environment is important, inclusion goes much further. It’s about how someone feels when they’re in the building — whether they feel welcomed, understood, and valued. Many of the barriers disabled people face are intangible, and not related to the physical environment at all.
Ready to take the first step towards disability inclusion?
Start with a guest speaking session and take the first step towards real, lasting change.
Testimonials
What Our Partners Say
Businesses we work with often say the biggest impact isn’t just what they learn, it’s how confident they feel applying it.
Esi is a really engaging speaker who brings to life how to think differently about disability inclusion – empowering both disabled colleagues and allies to leverage the strengths of disabled colleagues whilst being cognisant of the barriers that may inadvertently be placed in their way.
Helen Krushave
Tesco Bank
Esi is a wonderful speaker and addition to any panel conference. She is open, transparent and funny and really willing to share her own experiences to raise awareness and teach others. I’ve learnt so much from Esi and would definitely recommend her and Celebrating Disability.
Gill Cook
Three
Esi is an extremely warm and engaging facilitator who helped our team explore language, biases and the actions we can take to make our workplace and community events more accessible, engaging and inclusive. I would 100% recommend this training to organisations across all sectors.
Tyler Fox
The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Not sure if Celebrating Disability is the right fit? Here are some of the questions we’re often asked.
Latest News
Disability Inclusion Insights
Read the latest from our team on creating more inclusive workplaces — practical tips, stories, and reflections.
Attitude & Inclusion
Disability History – Past, Present & Future
Introduction Did you know that Celebrating Disability is based on the legacy of the disability movement and disability rights in...
By Amy Worgan | 29 May 2025 | 9 min read
Attitude & Inclusion
Embedding Disability Inclusion Initiatives
Embedding disability inclusion into your workplace is not just a policy; it is about people. At Celebrating Disability, we believe...
By Esi Hardy | 24 April 2025 | 8 min read
How To Talk About Disability
Supporting Employees to Disclose a Disability in the Workplace
Introduction Workplace inclusion is gaining more attention, and discussions about disability disclosure are becoming increasingly important. The UK government has...
By Amy Worgan | 21 March 2025 | 6 min read