Women's Network Business Leaders Forum - April 2014

Disabilities in the Workplace:

Hiring employees with disabilities & serving customers with disabilities

As we, as business leaders, seek to expand our reach and make our businesses more successful, sooner or later we are going to encounter someone with a disability. Whether we are considering that person for an open position or serving them as a customer in our businesses, it is important to be mindful not only of the differences we may perceive, but also the similarities that we might be overlooking. At the next Business Leaders Forum, we will be discussing best practices for recruiting, hiring and retaining employees with disabilities as well as serving customers with disabilities.

Our discussion will be facilitated by Heather Stewart, Services for Independent Living, and Liz Sensintaffar, Woodhaven. 

With this in mind, we  hope you have questions you would like to have addressed regarding employing or serving someone with a disability. Please feel free to ask anonymous questions at this link, which our facilitators will answer: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GWLBCDD