Signature topics · Themes that anchor the work
These are the through-lines of the work. They appear across keynotes, workshops, and panels — adapted to families, service providers, business audiences, funders, and policy rooms. For session formats, lengths, and logistics, see the Speaking page.
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Signature Keynote
Signature keynote · Start with the person
The core keynote. How to stop focusing only on fit within the workforce and begin designing pathways to work that reflect the individual — their strengths, their interests, and the realities of their everyday life.
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Reframing the conversation
Why traditional employment structures don't always hold for individuals with changing capacity — and what becomes possible when we stop trying to fit people into systems and start designing around them.
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Practical pathways
How to identify what comes naturally, translate it into real-world opportunity, and design work that can be sustained over time.
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For families, providers & community
How families, service providers, community leaders, and local businesses already form a natural network around the individual — and how recognizing and activating that network strengthens pathways to work in ways that are practical, relational, and rooted in real life.
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Human-scale, community-rooted
How modest, human-scale ventures can create income, visibility, confidence, belonging, and broader community participation — illustrated through Wags Cookies Ltd. and Sweet Freeze.
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