My Brilliant Career
This disability integration specialist expands diversity in the workplace
Lesa Bradshaw is a ‘disability integration specialist’ and the co-owner of a recruitment and assessment consulting firm. She tells Margaret Harris that companies must never take their eyes off marketing. Tell me what you do. I like to think I change people's thinking! Having a background in human resources, psychology and business, my career has morphed from identifying competence and potential in people, in my role of industrial psychometrist, to promoting and marketing competence and potential in people with a disability. It has been quite a journey. Having a disability myself - I am wheelchair bound due to spinal muscular atrophy - puts me in a position where I can set examples, change mindsets, blow stereotypes out of the water, and give people a different perspective on disability in the workplace. Our disability inclusivity model is making a real difference in the workspace. What are the challenges disabled people face when looking for work? Have you got eight hours to spare w...
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