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📺 I was on CHCH TV this week talking about something I think we're missing in the conversation about AI at work: Disabled and neurodivergent people have been using technology to work around barriers for decades. Organizations should be learning from that expertise. We hear a lot about AI as a productivity tool. How can we work faster? Automate more? Get more done? But AI can also be an accessibility tool. 🧠 It can turn a brain dump into an organized plan. ✍ Translate dense

🤪 No one seems to be talking about #AI, so I thought I'd start the conversation 🤭 Okay, I know I'm entering a conversation where everyone seems to have an opinion. That being said, I've noticed that a lot of what is being said has overlooked the valuable knowledge #disabled people can bring to AI adoption strategy. 🤖Much of the current conversation focuses on AI replacing jobs or increasing productivity and far less attention is being paid to the fact that many disabled

Neurodivergence and mental health are distinct, and very much intertwined. May is #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth and there's an interesting question for leaders to consider: “How do I support mental health and neurodivergence at work without overstepping, pathologizing people, or turning inclusion into performative HR language?” Leaders need to stop treating neurodivergence and mental health as separate conversations.

🧠 Most workplaces are still designed for, or default to, a fictional “average” brain. And every year in May on Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we post about access…without changing the systems that make work inaccessible in the first place. #Accessibility isn’t a checklist. It’s not a DEI slide. It’s not “we have #accommodations if you ask.” It’s whether your workplace really works for people who think, communicate, and process differently. In my experien

🧐 Did you know the idea of a Global Accessibility Awareness Day started with a single blog post written by a Los Angeles-based web developer, Joe Devon, back in 2011 titled, "CHALLENGE: Accessibility know-how needs to go mainstream with developers. NOW."?