Professional Training & Guest Speaking

At AccessAdvance Consulting, we tailor training and speaking engagements to your organization’s needs, helping you foster inclusive, accessible environments where everyone can thrive.

Our sessions are delivered virtually or in-person and cover a range of topics, including:

  • Inclusive Design of Spaces: We support architects, interior designers, planners, and related professionals in building their understanding and capacity to design spaces that are truly inclusive and accessible from the perspective of persons with disabilities. Our sessions explore how to integrate accessibility considerations from the very beginning and throughout the entire design process, not as an afterthought or checklist, but as an integral part of good design. We address a range of approaches including universal design, DeafSpace design, trauma-informed design, and sensory-friendly strategies, recognizing that these sometimes have conflicting requirements. Our work supports professionals in navigating these tensions, making informed choices, and designing spaces that consider the whole person while responding to the unique and intersecting needs of diverse user groups.

  • Workplace & Educational Accessibility: Creating inclusive policies, designing accessible spaces, and supporting students and employees with disabilities and intersecting identities.

  • Disability Awareness & Inclusion: Understanding ableism, bias, exploring how different parts of a persons identity can overlap, recognising disability as an important part of diversity and elevating customer service through understanding.

  • Event Accessibility: Planning and delivering events both in-person and virtual that are inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities.

  • Research Accessibility: Integrating disability and accessibility considerations into research design, recruitment, data collection, analysis, and knowledge sharing.

  • Advocacy & Support: Empowering individuals by improving support in healthcare, education, and workplaces, and addressing systemic barriers that limit accessibility and inclusion. The realities of advocacy fatigue for persons with disabilities and accessibility champions. As well as, addressing the unique challenges faced by people with chronic pain and rare disabilities, including stigma tied to both visible and invisible conditions.