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SUMMARY:POWER LUNCH: Accessibility Confident Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Accessibility Confident Leadership\n\n\n\nTwo in five Nova Scotians have a disability. Some disabilities are visible\, and some are not. More people have disabilities every year\, even among young people.\n\n \n\nThis interactive workshop will be led by Corrie Melanson of Sea Change CoLab\, and will invite you to practice\, discuss\, and take action to become an accessibility confident leader.\n\n \n\nWe will:\n\n         Explore an accessibility confident leadership model\n\n         Set the tone for your organization's accessibility mindset\n\n         Explore individual\, interpersonal\, and structural accessibility leadership actions\n\n         Identify how to create safer spaces including:\n\n         Proactive and responsive accommodations\n\n         Promising practices for accessible recruitment and hiring\n\n         Disability disclosure\n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter:\n\nCorrie Melanson (she/they)\n\nStrategy Lead\, Sea Change CoLAb Consulting\n\nCorrie Melanson (she/they) is the Strategy Lead at Sea Change CoLab Consulting.\n\n\n\nThey use proven principles of adult education\, universal design\, and culturally responsive practices to build inclusion\, and create engagement\, possibility\, and collective action. In addition to an undergrad in international development and a Master's in Lifelong Learning\, Corrie holds certificates in Adult Education\, Appreciative Inquiry\, Conflict Resolution\, Equity and Inclusion\, and Participatory Evaluation. \n\n\n\nIn 2011\, Corrie co-founded Rainbow Refugees Association of Nova Scotia (RRANS)\, an organization that supports and privately sponsors LGBTQ+ refugees.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<h2 style="text-align: center\;">Accessibility Confident Leadership<br />\n<img alt="" height="300" src="https://chambermaster.blob.core.windows.net/userfiles/UserFiles/chambers/2481/Image/2025_Power_Lunch/seachange-logo.jpg" style="width: 300px\; height: 300px\; margin: 10px\;" width="300" /></h2>\n\n<p><span style="font-size:14px\;">Two in five Nova Scotians have a disability. Some disabilities are visible\, and some are not. More people have disabilities every year\, even among young people.<br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\nThis interactive workshop will be led by Corrie Melanson of Sea Change CoLab\, and will invite you to practice\, discuss\, and take action to become an accessibility confident leader.<br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\nWe will:<br />\n&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&bull\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Explore an accessibility confident leadership model<br />\n&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&bull\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Set the tone for your organization&rsquo\;s accessibility mindset<br />\n&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&bull\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Explore individual\, interpersonal\, and structural accessibility leadership actions<br />\n&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&bull\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Identify how to create safer spaces including:<br />\n&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&#9642\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Proactive and responsive accommodations<br />\n&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&#9642\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Promising practices for accessible recruitment and hiring<br />\n&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&#9642\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Disability disclosure</span></p>\n\n<h3><br />\n<strong>About the Presenter:</strong></h3>\n\n<p style="background: rgb(238\, 238\, 238)\; border: 1px solid rgb(204\, 204\, 204)\; padding: 5px 10px\;"><span style="font-size:16px\;"><strong>Corrie Melanson (she/they)<br />\nStrategy Lead\, Sea Change CoLAb Consulting</strong></span></p>\n\n<div style="background:#eee\;border:1px solid #ccc\;padding:5px 10px\;"><img alt="" height="300" src="https://chambermaster.blob.core.windows.net/userfiles/UserFiles/chambers/2481/Image/2025_Power_Lunch/CorrieMelanson8717.jpg" style="width: 200px\; height: 300px\; margin: 10px\; float: left\;" width="200" /><span style="font-size:14px\;">Corrie Melanson (she/they) is the Strategy Lead at Sea Change CoLab Consulting.<br />\n<br />\nThey use proven principles of adult education\, universal design\, and culturally responsive practices to build inclusion\, and create engagement\, possibility\, and collective action.&nbsp\;In addition to an undergrad in international development and a&nbsp\;Master&rsquo\;s in Lifelong Learning\, Corrie holds certificates in Adult Education\, Appreciative Inquiry\, Conflict Resolution\, Equity and Inclusion\, and Participatory Evaluation.&nbsp\;<br />\n<br />\nIn 2011\, Corrie co-founded&nbsp\;<a data-outlook-id="5c36f7f9-de8e-4568-ac07-b3b2f971f7c7" href="http://www.rainbowrefugeens.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.rainbowrefugeens.com/">Rainbow Refugees Association of Nova Scotia</a>&nbsp\;(RRANS)\, an organization that supports and privately sponsors LGBTQ+ refugees.</span></div>\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<br />\n&nbsp\;
LOCATION:Halifax Chamber of Commerce Building 32 Akerley Blvd\, Dartmouth NS B3B 1N1
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DTSTAMP:20260516T044648Z
URL:http://business.halifaxchamber.com/events/details/power-lunch-accessibility-confident-leadership-4269
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