Accessibility Confident Leadership

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.
 
This 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.
 
We will:
    •    Explore an accessibility confident leadership model
    •    Set the tone for your organization’s accessibility mindset
    •    Explore individual, interpersonal, and structural accessibility leadership actions
    •    Identify how to create safer spaces including:
    ▪    Proactive and responsive accommodations
    ▪    Promising practices for accessible recruitment and hiring
    ▪    Disability disclosure

About the Presenter:

Corrie Melanson (she/they)
Strategy Lead, Sea Change CoLAb Consulting

Corrie Melanson (she/they) is the Strategy Lead at Sea Change CoLab Consulting.

They 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. 

In 2011, Corrie co-founded Rainbow Refugees Association of Nova Scotia (RRANS), an organization that supports and privately sponsors LGBTQ+ refugees.