Lara Davis, our Director of Communications and Marketing, shares highlights from the ‘How inclusive is disability inclusion across the globe?’ session at our Global Conference on 21 November (sponsored by HSBC). Disability workforce and pay gap data reporting is a hot topic, but not just in the UK. It’s also a particular challenge for organisations…
Business Disability Forum’s Rebecca Elliott shares highlights from the Disability Networks and Employee Resource Groups session at our recent global conference, ‘Disability inclusion in a changing world’ (sponsored by HSBC). Of all the amazing sessions in our Global Conference on 21 November, this year I think I was most excited for the “Building Confidence Through…
Matt Ewington, our Digital Marketing Manager, shares highlights from ‘The European Accessibility Act (EEA)’ panel at our Global Conference on 21 November (sponsored by HSBC). “The European Accessibility Act, coming into effect in June 2025, will set a benchmark for accessibility standards not only in the EU but globally. Businesses that want to sell their…
It’s no secret that I’m passionate about working from home. I work full time from my home office, but the other week I travelled 100 miles to the BDF conference in London. The first session of the day gripped me because of the topic – “Where we work?”Bela Gor and Emily Jackson joined Asset Manager,…
Britain’s top EDI leaders, representing government and every industry sector, were among over 700 people meeting us in person or online for last Tuesday’s (2 July) Annual Conference on the theme ‘We can work it out – reasonable adjustments in a modern world’, which focussed on making the world more inclusive for everyone. Our host,…
Rebecca Elliott, Disability Business Partner at Business Disability Forum, looks back on the Disability Smart Awards Ceremony 2024, in partnership with Bloomberg, on 30 April. Stories connect people, and people connect with stories. Now in its tenth year, the Disability Smart Awards are all about celebrating the stories of those incredible individuals and organisations who…
Sam Buckley, our Policy Engagement Manager, shares highlights from the ‘Better Together with Tech’ panel at our Global Conference on 1 November (sponsored by HSBC). The ‘Better Together with Tech’ panel at our Global Conference wasn’t the only place people were discussing the impact of AI on 1 November. But it was definitely the most optimistic. …
Rebecca Elliott, Disability Business Partner at Business Disability Forum, looks back on the ‘Working together to tap into disabled talent’ panel discussions at our Global Conference on 1 November 2023 (sponsored by HSBC). As a Disability Business Partner, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to navigate the complexities of collaboration across different…
The Global Roundtable was kindly sponsored by HSBC. By Diane Lightfoot, CEO, Business Disability Forum I’m sure many of you will have asked – or been asked – a variant of an equally tough question, “How do we approach disability inclusion as a company when we have a hundred offices in a dozen different…
Andy Briggs, CEO of Phoenix Group, spoke at our Annual Conference: Back to the future on 28 June 2023 on the topic of retaining older disabled workers. Here are the highlights from his presentation and his recommendations for employers. Context The UK population is ageing, and so is the labour market: around 30% of the…
Our recent Annual Conference: Back to the Future included the panel discussion “The circle of life: who cares?” with speakers Natalie Quilter, Eleni Katsoulis, Chantel Emery and Daniel Cadey talking about working carers. Read the highlights from the session by our Disability Business Partner Becky Elliott. Watching our Annual Conference remotely, I was looking forward…
Our hybrid Annual Conference Back to the Future – how should employers respond to ‘the new normal’?, sponsored by NatWest, took place on Wednesday 28 June 2023 and was attended by over 500 people. If you weren’t able to join us, here we share some of the highlights and key takeaways from the conference. Many…
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