Positively Purple

Build an Inclusive World Where People with Disabilities Can Flourish

Edition: 1 Date: 03/10/2022 Paperback: 9781398608474 £14.99 Ebook: 9781398608481 £14.99 Hardback: 9781398608498 £45.00 Pages: 240 Format (mm): 216x138 Band: Trade Promo Subject: Business & Management Skills

Author Information

Kate Nash OBE is a change leader with over 30 years’ experience in working strategically to effect long-term changes in relation to disabled people. She is the creator & CEO of PurpleSpace (www.purplespace.org). Established in 2015 it is the world’s only professional development membership hub for disability employee resource groups.

In 2017 she founded #PURPLELIGHTUP, a global movement of disabled people, allies and champions who celebrate the economic contribution of disabled people to the global economy. This takes place on 3rd December each year as a mark of respect to the UN International Day of Disabled People. In 2020 buildings lit up included The Shard, Blackpool Tower, John F Kennedy Airport, Niagara Falls, Sydney Harbour Bridge and The Australian Parliament. She is based in London, UK. navigating the experience of ill health, disability, accident or injury.

This book

• Explains how organizations can connect with their own disabled employees, allies, executive sponsors and champions • Is written by a renowned disability rights campaigner and chief executive and founder of the global #PURPLELIGHTUP campaign, which has made an impact from Australia to United

States of America and throughout Europe • Describes how to help colleagues navigate difficult life experiences, manage workplace discrimination and access any adjustments they may need • Advises how any organization can learn to build an inclusive culture

Description

Most employers will have a workforce where at least 10 per cent of their people will have a visible or invisible disability. And 86 per cent of all disabled people acquire their disability during the course of their working lives. How can businesses create strategies and a company culture that includes all staff?

Ensure that your company or organization doesn’t become guilty of the soft bigotry of low expectations when it comes to disabled employees and customers. Learn from your disabled staff and consumers and be equipped to be a better and more dynamic organization.

Kate Nash, founder of #PURPLELIGHTUP - a global movement which celebrates the economic contribution of employees with disability - will help you understand how any organization can ensure disabled staff and consumers are included and valued. Telling a fascinating story of how to make change happen and recognizing that any kind of transformation requires knowledge, determination and hard yards of campaigning, networking and deal making, you will learn how to build disability confidence throughout your organization.

Positively Purple allows disabled workers to claim their rightful place centre stage as just another valuable member of the team.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Tweet Introduction - All people with disability have a back story 1. Making sense of disability or difference 2. The soft bigotry of low expectations 3. Overwhelming indifference or out and

out prejudice 4. Get political - Lobbying and campaigning 5. Build your network to get ahead 6. Look for opportunities 7. Perfecting the art of a work/life fit. Or not

8. Make an organization better for having you there 9. Networking - The key to getting on at work, rather than simply getting in 10. A manifesto for change 11. The gift of information