Podcast Summary
Understanding Challenges: Empathy and Awareness in Podcasts and Business: Empathy and awareness are essential in personal and professional life. Listen to podcasts like Capital Ideas and Visibility Gap for insights. Small businesses can boost earnings with banking services like QuickBooks Money. Disability inclusion is crucial for business growth and social change through initiatives like The Valuable 500.
Empathy and awareness are crucial in understanding the challenges faced by those around us, whether in our personal or professional lives. The Capital Ideas Podcast, hosted by Capital Group CEO Mike Gitlin, sheds light on the experiences of investment professionals and their methods for finding success. Meanwhile, the Visibility Gap podcast, presented by Cigna Health Care, emphasizes the importance of recognizing and addressing invisible struggles. Additionally, small business owners can make their money work harder by utilizing banking services like QuickBooks Money, which offers a 5% annual percentage yield. Furthermore, disability inclusion is a vital aspect of business growth and social change. The Valuable 500, founded by disability activist Caroline Casey, is a partnership of 500 organizations and their CEOs working towards global disability inclusion. This year, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the Valuable 500 is focusing on disrupting the culture of digital and technology product design to ensure accessibility and inclusion are core requirements. Companies are increasingly recognizing the importance of diversity and inclusion, and the Valuable 500 is leading the charge in this area.
CEOs urged to report disability performance: DEI is pushing for 500 companies to report on their disability inclusion efforts, including digital accessibility, in annual reports to hold them accountable for real progress.
The Disability Equality Index (DEI) initiative is working to break the silence of CEOs regarding inclusiveness for people with disabilities in businesses. They believe that the choices made by CEOs can significantly impact the investment, energy, and intention towards creating inclusive businesses. To ensure accountability, DEI is now urging the 500 companies they've engaged with to report on their disability performance, including digital accessibility, in their annual reports. Shockingly, 30% of FTSE 100 companies in the UK do not have accessible websites, preventing people with disabilities and their families from doing business with them. By making companies report on their performance, DEI aims to move beyond lip service and ensure real progress towards inclusion.
Reporting and measuring diversity, including disabilities, is crucial: Recognizing the value and contributions of neurodivergent individuals requires positive representation and visibility in the community
Reporting and measuring diversity, including disabilities, in the workplace is crucial for management and progress. However, the invisibility of many disabilities and the fear of negative perception create barriers for people to disclose them. With approximately 1.3 billion people living with neurodiversity and contributing to over 54% of the global economy, the value of neurodivergent individuals is significant. Positive representation and visibility of people with disabilities in the community can encourage disclosure and shift the narrative towards recognizing their worth and contributions. The speaker, Caroline, was inspired by her own experiences of hiding her disability and has been an activist for 23 years to promote this change.
CEOs with disabilities not disclosing it: A systemic issue: Businesses need to address the lack of job opportunities for individuals with disabilities, tap into a vast market, and promote inclusion and accessibility for growth.
There is a significant number of CEOs living with disabilities who are not disclosing it, and this issue has persisted for decades. Change needs to happen at a systemic level, requiring the active participation and accountability of businesses. The lack of well-paid, skilled jobs for individuals with disabilities, which covers a wide range of neurodiversity, sensory, physical, mental health, and learning disabilities, is a crucial issue in today's cost of living crisis. However, there are opportunities for businesses to tap into a vast market of over 1.3 billion people with diverse needs by bringing in this talent and embracing inclusion and accessibility in product design. Join Bloomberg's Future Investor event on May 7th to learn more about the role data plays in investment decisions and the construction of innovative enterprises. Sponsored by Invesco QQQ, this event series aims to highlight the importance of inclusion and diversity in business growth.
