Training, Consultancy & Events

Disability Essentials training 

We help organisations seeking a solid and practical foundation in understanding disability, be in the workplace or about their customers. We will build confidence, knowledge and capacity. We aim to remove hesitancy, the 'able anxiety' if you like.

We love being with you in person, we can happily deliver remotely and we can even record training for you to use as needed. 

We offer an all topics covered session (usually two hours). Other topics we often deliver include :

• Understanding the Equality Act
• Neurodivergent colleagues and making adjustments
• Accessible and Inclusive Communications and Events
• Managing Mental Health in the work place
  
• Recruitment and Retention
• Best Customer Service
• Performance and Attendance management

Bespoke Training

The topic is disability, the focus is yours. We love creating courses and events to suit your needs. 

Strategy

Where will disability be in your workplace in three years? What has happened in the last three years? You may have an ERG, an adjustments process and a senior champion and yet the disability gap from your employee engagement surveys is noticeable. The success criteria is for you to decide, we will work with you on how to get there.

Hosting & Chairing

Simon is regularly asked to chair and host events and conferences, both in the UK and internationally. He listens to the brief, sticks to time, ensures everyone gets to speak, including audience members and makes it enjoyable for all. 

Events

Simon is a fluent and engaging communicator and can speak for ten minutes or an hour on a dimension of disability relevant to you. We offer several 'off the shelf' options, plus we're creative and like coming up with new ideas based on your aims. If you're not sure what you want, you just want something and something different maybe, we can talk to work out what will be beneficial. .

Past topics have included...

• Encouraging colleagues to share
• The business and moral benefits of disability inclusion
• Tales from an International Disability Consultant
• UN International Day of Disabled People talks
• The benefits and limits of Employee Resource Groups
• Disability and Television
• Disability 101 including language 
• The Big Purple Quiz

Acting on Disability

We will design and deliver interactive theatre training for your managers or front line staff. Our skilled actors, all of whom are disabled people too, will play out scenes and discuss elements with the audience. It's dramatic and lively form of learning. It's role play, but you don't have to do the role playing. 

Career Development Courses

A recent client said 'If we could bottle whatever that magic you bring and then sprinkle it around, our organisation would be very special'. It is a transformational experience for the attendees and ultimately the organisation they work for. And to let you in to a secret, it's one of our favourite courses to deliver - seeing people sharing, developing, growing in confidence especially in relation to their condition is hugely rewarding. This course is for managers and colleagues who are Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent.

Comedy

With our sister company, Abnormally Funny People  we can offer a truly different event. Our comedians are hugely experienced, working both the comedy circuit and knowing a corporate audience. We've delivered comedy events for law firms, tech companies and public sector organisations. We build in time for a conversation too. These can be in person or remote. 

Dining with a Difference

For senior staff and leaders in your organisation who don't usually attend training! This is something best explained by us to you. It's utterly unique and very special. 

Media, Television and the Arts

Simon frequently works with creative industries be it theatre, television and more. He's worked on projects with the BBC including Strictly Come Dancing, Micheal McIntyre's Big Show, The Wheel, Channel 4,  Triple C, Studio Lambert and   All3Media. It might be training Access Co-ordinators and Access Leads, looking at talent recruitment or management, on screen / stage portrayal and more.