In this episode:

Verity Ayling-Smith, training and consultancy advisor with Leonard Cheshire and the 'Change 100' programme, and Priyanca Desouza, user research and Change 100 intern.

What disability is

- Protected characteristics, diversity and inclusion

- Disability as a normal and common thing

- Bringing down the barriers in recruitment and the work environment

- A wide range of accessibility needs

The visibility of disability

- Disability more prevalent than we realise

- The duty of employers to remove barriers

- Choosing whether or not to disclose your disability

- Employers missing out on fantastic talent

- The inexplicable employment gap for disabled people

Change 100 and Leonard Cheshire

- Leonard Cheshire's mission to support disabled people

- Change 100's mission to close the employment gap for disabled graduates and students

- Matching skills to roles

- A highly competitive programme

- The popularity of marketing and communications

The challenging language of job descriptions

The value of different life experiences

- Resilience, creativity and difference by default

- The danger of the agency bubble and cookie-cutter thinking

- Actively welcoming and valuing a difference life experience

- Championing inclusive experience design

The 'amplified self'

- The problem with traditional recruitment

- Jim Carroll and the amplified self

- Excellence vs mediocrity

The positives of the lockdown (for us all)

- How remoteness has brought colleagues closer

- A more personalised way of working

- It's not where you work but how - challenging office culture

- Business investment in agile, remote working and management

- A more autonomous, liberated and creative workforce