Workplace Accessibility Training

Disability-Inclusive Leadership

Creating accessible and inclusive teams

Creating an accessible workplace involves far more than responding to individual requests for reasonable adjustments. Managers and leaders play a vital role in shaping the culture, communication, systems and everyday experiences of disabled employees.

Disability-Inclusive Leadership: Creating Accessible and Inclusive Teams equips managers and leaders with the knowledge, confidence and practical strategies to remove barriers and build more accessible, inclusive workplaces.

Participants explore physical, digital, communication, procedural and attitudinal barriers, alongside disability language, disclosure, psychological safety, accessible ways of working and inclusion throughout the employee journey.

Moving beyond disability awareness, the course focuses on the practical actions managers and leaders can take to embed accessibility into everyday leadership and create lasting organisational change.

About this course

Who is this course for?

This course is particularly valuable for:

Line Managers and Team Leaders
Middle and Senior Managers
Heads of Department
Senior Leadership Teams
HR and People Professionals
Learning and Development Teams
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Leads
Employee Experience Teams
Occupational Health and Wellbeing Teams
Organisational Development Professionals

What will the course cover?

Understanding disability in the workplace
Visible and non-visible disability
Workplace barriers
The social model of disability
Disability language and assumptions
Accessible communication and meetings
Disability disclosure and psychological safety
Disability inclusion across the employee journey
Recruitment, onboarding and career development
Reasonable adjustments and proactive accessibility
Inclusive leadership and organisational culture

What will you learn?

Participants will leave the course better equipped to:

Recognise barriers affecting disabled employees
Understand disability from a more inclusive perspective
Communicate about disability with greater confidence
Challenge assumptions and stereotypes
Make everyday working practices more accessible
Respond appropriately to disability disclosure
Consider accessibility throughout the employee journey
Understand the role of reasonable adjustments
Proactively remove common workplace barriers
Create more disability-inclusive teams and cultures

Delivery

We understand that finding time for training can be challenging. That is why we offer flexible delivery options designed to fit your organisation’s schedule and ways of working.

This course is available in person, live online, or as a bespoke programme tailored to your organisation’s specific needs and objectives.

Duration

Half day – 3.5 hours

Tailored to your organisation

Every workplace is different, which is why we tailor our training to your needs.

The course can be personalised to your organisation, sector and workforce. We will incorporate relevant workplace scenarios and challenges, helping managers apply their learning to situations they are likely to encounter in practice.

This course is suitable for healthcare, social care, professional services, financial services, technology, education, public sector organisations and employers across the wider corporate market.

Ready to build greater disability confidence across your leadership teams?