Tag: Disability:IN

Disability:IN Announces 2024 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories

Stuart Mitchell

Disability:IN, the global organization driving disability inclusion and equality in business, today announced the winners of its 2024 Inclusion Awards. The annual accolade recognizes outstanding disability inclusion efforts by visionary brands and individuals from among Disability:IN’s more than 500 corporate partners. “Each year we are fortunate to see exemplary disability inclusion efforts from so many worthy companies and individuals. The volume reaffirms that this work continues to become a business imperative for companies around the globe,” said Jill Houghton, president and CEO of Disability:IN. “Our 2024 Inclusion Awards recipients represent…

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The 2024 Disability Equality Index ® Reveals Strong Growth in Leadership and Accessibility but Boardroom Inclusion Lags

Stuart Mitchell

Disability:IN, the global nonprofit organization driving disability inclusion and equality in business, today unveiled the 2024 Disability Equality Index® report at the Disability:IN Global Conference & Expo, revealing higher year-over-year adoption rates for nearly all reported practices around disability inclusion while also showing the need for more progress in areas such as diversity reporting, supplier diversity spending and boardroom inclusion. A total of 542 U.S. companies participated this year, a growth rate of 7x since the index launched 10 years ago in partnership with AAPD. Among the U.S. companies that…

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Companies that Lead in Disability Inclusion Outperform Peers Financially, Reveals New Research from Accenture

Stuart Mitchell

Companies that lead in disability inclusion drive more revenue, net income and profit, according to a new research report from Accenture  in partnership with Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). Building on the 2018 landmark report on disability inclusion at work in the United States, the follow-up research, titled “The Disability Inclusion Imperative,” explores disability inclusion amid major technological advances, changes in geopolitical dynamics and the effects of a global pandemic across 346 companies in the US. These companies participated in the Disability Equality Index (DEI), a leading global benchmarking tool that scores…

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Disability:IN Announces 2023 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories: Walgreens Boots Alliance Named Employer of the Year; Dell Technologies Named Autism Inclusion Company of the Year

Stuart Mitchell

Disability:IN, the global organization driving disability inclusion and equality in business, today announced the winners of its 2023 Inclusion Awards. Each year, Disability:IN has recognized the visionary brands and individuals that are advancing disability inclusion through the Inclusion Awards, which recognize outstanding disability inclusion efforts among the organization’s more than 500 corporate partners. “The recipients of the 2023 Inclusion Awards are proving that businesses truly do have the power to drive the global advancement of disability inclusion, accessibility and equality,” said Jill Houghton, president & CEO of Disability:IN. “These companies and…

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100 CEOs Now on Board to Advance Disability Inclusion

Stuart Mitchell

Disability:IN, the global organization driving disability inclusion and equality in business, today announced that 100 CEOs have signed the CEO Letter on Disability Inclusion as part of Disability:IN’s global ‘CEOs Are IN’ campaign. In the letter, CEOs call on peers to follow their lead and evaluate their corporate inclusion progress by taking the Disability Equality Index (DEI). Over the last month, the CEOs of Boeing, Hilton, Micron Technology, Tripadvisor and The Estée Lauder Companies have become signatories, joining Fortune 500, tech and healthcare CEOs who are making disability inclusion a…

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