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Making Workplaces Inclusive for People With Disabilities
Brut America
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3/25/2025
She's legally blind from a genetic condition called ocular albinism — and she knows how the tough workplace can be for people with disabilities. That’s why entrepreneur Caroline Casey says work must be inclusive for all. (Via Brut UK)
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Every single human on this planet at some point in their life is going to experience disability.
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It is not okay that 90% of our companies claim to be passionate about diversity and inclusion
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and yet only 4% consider disability. That is not inclusion. That is a la carte,
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pick and mix, trendy, fashionable inclusion. Inclusion means all and it means everyone.
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I'm one of the 1.3 billion people in the world who have a disability but sitting here you wouldn't
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know that. It's invisible to you. Beyond my hand is blurry. It's like putting a pair of glasses on
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and putting Vaseline in front of them. I have a very unique story because I was born with this
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condition. My parents did not want me defined by my disability so they brought me up as a sighted
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child so I had no idea I couldn't see very well.
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Work in Accenture as a manager consultant, hiding a secret that I can't see beyond my nose,
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well can I just tell you, that makes me highly resourceful. I was incredibly able to, I had to
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think on my feet all the time, I had always to be a step ahead of everybody else, to constantly
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keep up, to detract, to deflect so that you wouldn't find out. What I would say to you the most,
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the greatest feeling was exhaustion. In October 1999, which is 20 years ago,
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is when I came out of the closet, the disability closet and I didn't plan it. I wish I could tell
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you I did and what did it feel like. You can hear it in my voice still to this day, it still
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makes my voice wobble and I didn't know what to do with it. I had no language, I was kind of lost
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and I think the most important thing that I can reflect on is just lack of confidence, just
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yeah, lack of confidence.
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We set out an ambition in Davos this year to get 500 of the most iconic brands and their CEOs
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to join the valuable 500. We need to reach that ambitious target because if you get 500
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of the world's most influential brands and CEOs, we create a tipping point that we can never go
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back from. There is an inequality crisis in society that affects 1.3 billion people of our
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population. It cannot be resolved without business and it cannot be resolved without business
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leadership. When human need meets a business opportunity, that is a potent driver for
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engagement because if you think that every person with a disability has a mum and a dad,
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that is 53% of our global consumers have a direct connection to disability. It's an 8 trillion
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market. I don't think disability should be a priority any more than anything else in business.
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I want it to be considered as equally important. It's 2019. It is not okay for any business to
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operate under this inclusion illusion. It has to end and leaders are accountable.
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