This online workshop provides a practical introduction to workplace diversity and inclusion with a specific focus on candidates and workers with disabilities. This diversity group provides a multitude of capacity-building benefits to employers including innovation, lower turnover, attracting talent, and ultimately business resilience. In the face of an uncertain future, employers can learn how to engage this diversity group to build inclusion competencies across their organization while accessing ‘inclusion coaching’ from publicly funded service providers. Diverse and inclusive businesses are 6x more likely to be innovative which is vital for our “new normal”.

Hire for Talent is a national awareness campaign aimed at increasing employer confidence in hiring people with disabilities and provides resources to help employers tap into this talent pool during their search for skilled workers.

This initiative is focused on disability as the primary diversity demographic because experience shows that this diversity group has a profound impact on workplace inclusion. Hiring workers with disabilities generates measurable improvements to a workplace's culture, morale, staff retention, safety and innovation.

This webinar will be lead by Sean McEwen. He is a Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Consultant and a Director at RealEyes Capacity Consultants. RealEyes supports organizations to build cultural agility and workforce sustainability through diverse and inclusive workplaces that effectively leverage human capital and workplace culture. Sean engages with service providers and businesses across Canada to build their capacity in these areas.

Over the past 22 years Sean has been designing and overseeing Employment Inclusion and Entrepreneurship services for people with disabilities while providing leadership and coaching to teams of Career Practitioners serving job-seekers and employers. Through RealEyes Capacity Consultants, Sean has co-developed Employment Inclusion Training for organizations facilitating employment services for diverse groups of job-seekers. An avid proponent of collaboration and social innovation, Sean has helped developed social media campaigns and regional / provincial / national networks dedicated to the Employment Inclusion of people with disabilities.

Sean’s educational background is in Youth Services and Mental Health. He is a Certified Employment Specialist and has chaired the board of directors for both the Alberta Association for Supported Employment, as well as the Canadian Association of Supported Employment. Sean works across Canada but is based out of Calgary and has worked extensively with Indigenous communities in Southern Alberta. Sean’s Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) name is O’tsskoi piiksi (blue bird).