Positively Purple (build An Inclusive World Where People With Disabilities Can Flourish)

By (author) Kate Nash; By (author) Nash, Kate
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Develop an inclusive culture where people can flourish in the world of business while navigating the experience of ill health, disability, accident or injury.
Description
For many people with a disability, either visible or invisible, that experience is hard to navigate in the context of work. Champion change, for yourself and others, challenge stigma and become Positively Purple. Sharing a compelling personal story, Kate Nash offers practical advice for how employers can build environments of trust and support for those with disabilities, how employees with disabilities can advocate for themselves and flourish in the workplace and how those without disabilities can be true allies. Don''t become guilty of the soft bigotry of low expectations when it comes to disabled colleagues, employees and customers. Build disability confidence and help create spaces where people with disabilities feel valued and included.
Table of contents

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction;
  • Chapter - 01: Disability identity;
  • Chapter - 02: Nature, nurture and a new reality;
  • Chapter - 03: The soft bigotry of low expectation;
  • Chapter - 04: Who do I want to be when I grow up?;
  • Chapter - 05: Disability is a political experience;
  • Chapter - 06: Build your network to get ahead;
  • Chapter - 07: Lonely in a crowd;
  • Chapter - 08: Eradicating shame;
  • Chapter - 09: Ensuring an organization is better for having you there;
  • Chapter - 10: Getting on at work, rather than simply getting in ;
  • Chapter - 11: Starting a long-haul strategy to change the world;
  • Chapter - 12: The third phase of change: when movements take off;
  • Chapter - 13: Building disability confidence from the inside out;
  • Chapter - 14: The futurists;
  • Chapter - 15: Afterword;
  • Chapter - 16: Notes

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"Positively Purple should be required reading for every FTSE 250 CEO. Business leaders need to understand and value ''human capital''. Kate Nash is an expert in helping us recognise the value of every human - including those with disabilities."
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"Positively Purple is a tale about the talent and potential of people with disabilities. Any CEO wanting to test the robustness of their disability strategy should understand the politics of disability. Kate Nash''s personal story told with brutal honesty, is a compelling read and full of practical lessons."
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"Global multinationals like GSK, increasingly choose to learn directly from their employees with disabilities. Building disability confidence from the inside out by investing in a disability employee resource group will make the journey so much easier. Kate''s personal story shows us how to supercharge the disability inclusion revolution and create a better, more accessible, working world."
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"It''s hard for me to talk about Kate and her work without sounding like I am always using hyperbole. I find Kate Nash''s presence throughout Positively Purple inspiring. Her words embolden the reader to participate as proactive protagonists in the fight for equity. The path she outlines uses lessons from other equality and identity dimensions but adds a particular magic, unique to Kate herself. This book is essential reading for anyone who would call themselves an ally of equity at work. My team and I are all avid fans of Kate and grateful for all her lessons and practical actions."
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"Kate Nash has managed to do what no one before her has ever done. Positively Purple is the manuscript for living life and creating epic change for people with disabilities. Kat