This woman is making disability inclusion a leadership issue:
, and made several renowned leaders tear up on stage. While she may not be the first or the only leader to push for inclusion, she came to Davos armed with everything she needed to be a catalyst for change: new research, big-name backers and lived experience.
Casey is registered blind, although she says her parents didn’t tell her until she was a teenager. “I guess they felt I didn’t need to have that stigma attached to me. And just to make sure I felt like every other kid, they sent me out to ride about town on a bicycle. Who does that?” At the risk of creating a ridiculous metaphor, I’ll tell you what I told a colleague about Casey when I hung up the phone:
This woman is like the lead car in a motorcade. Her job is to drive this initiative forward and clear the path for leadership.“While many businesses call themselves diverse, most overlook, ignore or delay taking action on inclusion,” she says. Employment numbers for people with disabilities are rising according to recent reports. Still, the numbers are unacceptably low.
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