Welcome to my insights on diversity and inclusion. Here I share practical tips, personal stories and findings about identity, multicultural backgrounds and disability in the workplace. These insights on diversity and inclusion are based on my own experience and work with professionals and organisations.
I feel disabled when you address my friends at a restaurant to ask what I want to drink. Not because I use a wheelchair. I feel disabled when you assume I have the mental age of a three-year-old and speak....
You have talent. Ambition. A goal you want to reach. Maybe you have just graduated and are looking for your first job. Or you have been working for a few years and are ready to take the next step in....
My parents gave me something no education could have taught me. The belief that I could achieve anything I set my mind to. Not in spite of my multicultural background, but because of it. The fact that my parents had....
All I ever wanted was to be normal. A normal secondary school. A normal degree. A normal flat. A normal office job. It did not come easily. Whether I was trying to get into mainstream education or looking for an....
Not everyone is the same. But everyone is equal. When I first heard that sentence, something clicked. Up to that point, I had always gone with the flow. I was good at reading my environment and adapting accordingly at work:....
Do you have a disability? Or are you your disability? Everyone I speak to with a disability is intelligent. Works at a good organisation. Has talent. But there is one difference: the extent to which they actually use that talent.....
