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Where we work

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,…

Looking back on the Disability Smart Awards 2024 ceremony

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…

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Global Conference 2023 highlights: being the right amount of scared about AI 

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.  …

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Global Conference 2023 highlights: “Just start” with inclusive recruitment

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…

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How do you tackle a job like global disability inclusion? Reflections from the Global Roundtable, 19 October 2023.

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…

Annual Conference 2023 session highlights: Retaining older disabled workers – mission impossible?

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…

Annual Conference 2023 session highlights: The circle of life – who cares?

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…

The Disability Smart Awards 2023 ceremony as seen by Becky, Disability Business Partner

Becky Elliott recently joined Business Disability Forum as a Disability Business Partner. Here’s her take on this year’s Disability Smart Awards ceremony, sponsored by Microlink and hosted by Freshfields. As the newest Disability Business Partner to join the BDF team, I felt incredibly fortunate to be sitting on the 22nd floor of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer…

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