Michael Hess (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-hess-9a4a826/) is the blind Executive Director of The Blind Institute of Technology, or BIT (http://www.blindinstituteoftechnology.org/). The Future of Work for Mike is helping companies all over the world overcome their fear or loss aversion to hiring people with disabilities. The momentum has shifted with COVID and working from home and conversations about systemic inequalities, in favor of 1 out of 7 people globally, who have a disability, finding meaningful work. So how does your company tap into this untapped resource to realize a Future of Work for everyone?
The resulting theme of this episode: The Pandemic has encouraged companies to allow work from home using digital aids like Zoom, which in turn makes it easy for people with a disability to work completely unencumbered.
