Special Guest: Ed Henkler
 
 Ed has been committed to helping those that are visually impaired.  Thriving after Vision Loss: Ensuring that people who have lost their sight shift their goals from surviving to thriving. Dedicated to people experiencing vision loss and those that love them. He also developed https://theblindguide.com/ working with partners and companies on enhancing the opportunities to help blind be successful in the workforce.
 
Breakdown of today’s podcast:

• First experience with visually impaired people.
• Creating opportunities for the 70% that are unemployed
• Misconceptions of blind people and inability to work
• Educating people on how to assess abilities based on level of impairment
• Positions people can thrive in
• Software and tools helping the blind be successful
• Integrated blind people into the workforce
• Government or Non-Profit Funded organizations to help support companies
• How should people interact with blind coworkers
• Talk to the employee, trust their feelings on how interactions should take place
• Advocacy groups can provide education
• What can companies do to recruit blind people?
• Employees need to take initiative to help themselves and also educating the hiring companies. 
• Cost to accommodate is minimal
• Guidance to people that are blind
• Do NOT assume the person you are interviewing with gets what it means to be blind
• Other positions blind people can be successful with
• Ed's partnerships and initiatives

Guest Info
Ed Henkler
Founder of The Blind Guide:
Passionate about prevention of blindness and enabling technology for people who are blind or visually impaired. Implementing solutions to improve quality of life and increase the employability of people with visual impairments.
 https://www.linkedin.com/in/edhenkler/
[email protected]

 GLINTER SOCIAL MEDIA AND CONTACT INFO
 [email protected] (Email)
 http://bit.ly/michaelglinter (Podcast)
 http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelglinter2 (Linked In)
 #MichaelAGlinter (Twitter)
 http://www.facebook.com/michael.glinter (Facebook)
 https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelGlinter (YouTube)
 www.michaelglinter.com (Website)