Podcast series: Business Disability Debates with Diane Lightfoot

BDF CEO Diane Lightfoot talks to leading disability experts about their perspectives on important questions.

Last Modified: 20 October 2020


Business Disability Debates with Diane Lightfoot and Amanda Kirkby

Diane Lightfoot speaks to Professor Amanda Kirby CEO of Do-IT Solutions about neurodiversity in the workplace. Diane and Amanda also discuss what the world could look like post-COVID-19 and the opportunity to reinvent the workplace.

Business Disability Global Debates with Diane Lightfoot and Dr Nancy Doyle

In this episode, Diane Lightfoot speaks to Dr Nancy Doyle, CEO and founder of Genius Within about neurodiversity in the workplace. They discuss how companies can improve their recruitment processes for people with neurodiverse conditions and promote disability inclusion from the perspective of intersecting characteristics.

Business Debates with Diane Lightfoot and Stuart Blair from Texthelp

In this episode, Diane Lightfoot speaks to Stuart Blair who works for texthelp in their workplace solutions team. Stuart explains to positive impact working from home has on employees with neurodiverse conditions.

The support that business can put in place to ensure everyone can access the technology they need and what texthelp has done to make sure users can access their services.

Business Disability Global Debates with Diane Lightfoot and Lyn Lee

The first in our new series Business Disability Global Debates, Business Disability CEO, Diane Lightfoot is joined by Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Shell, Lyn Lee to talk about our new global report ‘Towards a Disability-Smart World: Global Disability Inclusion Strategy’. Diane and Lyn discuss what organisations can do to lead the way and drive change at a global level.

Business Disability Global Debates with Diane Lightfoot and Nicola James

In this episode, Diane Lightfoot speaks with Lexxic founder Nicola James about her personal experience with dyslexia, the pros and cons of neurodiverse labels in the workplace and Nicola gives advice on how to access assessments.


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