Businesses cannot be truly inclusive if they don't think about disability. Caroline Casey is encouraging firms to sign up to The Valuable 500 to change their thinking.
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When Richard Branson left school aged 16, he struggled with reading, comprehension and dyslexia. His autobiography ‘Screw It, Let’s Do It’ tells the story of a man whose ability to think differently led him to succeed in a world where he didn’t seem to belong. ‘I seemed to think in a different way from my classmates,’ he says. ‘Over the years, my different way of thinking helped me to build the Virgin Group and contributed greatly to our success. My dyslexia guided the way we communicated with customers.’
History is full of inspirational leaders identifiable not by their disability but by a driving belief in their power to change the world – consider for a moment, leaders like Franklin D Roosevelt, Stephen Hawking or former Cisco CEO John Chambers.
The truth is business has some way to go to include disabled peop
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