Deb Russell has discovered the secrets to a better workforce.  She started as a service provider and advocate for people with disabilities to get jobs.  She thought businesses should employ people with disabilities because it was a nice thing to do.  She didn’t know any better.  

 

Then she created the world’s most successful large-scale disability inclusive employment initiative. On her first day she whispered, “Do you really think they can do it?”  a year later she was analyzing the data that defended the answer “Yes, they can!”  Since then, she has helped over 100 businesses reap the benefits of hiring people with disabilities. 

 

About 5 years ago, she discovered that the keys to a productive workforce of people with disabilities, had NOTHING to do with focusing on disability.  What had made her clients successful applied to all members of their workforce.  Now she simply facilitates an ideal recruiting strategy with adjustments to the remaining workforce.