Ep.134 - Hire Ability, Not Disability

💼 What if hiring people with disabilities became your company's biggest competitive advantage?
🚀 Jeremy Grandstaff shares how innovation, accessibility, and inclusion can unlock stronger businesses and more meaningful careers.

✅ Jeremy Grandstaff shares how growing up blind on an Ohio farm shaped his problem-solving mindset.

✅ Learn why self-advocacy became one of his greatest strengths from an early age.

✅ Discover how the Inspiration Foundation is working to increase disability employment by 10% in five years.

✅ Hear how technology grants are helping organizations provide cutting-edge accessibility training.

✅ Find out why AI tools, Meta smart glasses, and updated assistive technology are changing workforce readiness.

✅ Explore why disability employment isn't limited to accessibility careers but spans every industry.

✅ Learn how the Inspiration Seal helps employers build truly inclusive workplace cultures.

✅ Discover the impact of Dining in the Dark Executive Roundtables on changing leadership perspectives.

✅ Hear why measurable employment outcomes matter more than simply counting program participants.

✅ Learn how job seekers, employers, and supporters can join the movement to create more inclusive workplaces.

Creating opportunity isn't about lowering standards—it's about removing barriers so talent can thrive. Inclusion fuels innovation, business growth, and stronger communities. 🌟

Website; https://www.inspirationfoundation.org/

Jeremy Grandstaff is a seasoned leader in nonprofit growth, organizational effectiveness, learning and development, and change management with over two decades of experience across nonprofit, consulting, entrepreneurial, enterprise, and government sectors. He promotes sustainable change through empathy, advocacy, and strategic insight, ensuring organizational success and long-term growth. Drawing on advanced methodologies and collaborative leadership practices, Jeremy builds and leads retreats, workshops, and learning academies that elevate leadership and team performance. As the author of the Engaged Change™ Process, he blends over 60 proven collaborative methods into a unified framework that enables organizations to drive meaningful and lasting transformation and to build stronger movements while doing it.

Mr. Grandstaff currently serves as the Executive Director of the Inspiration Foundation, charged with growing our technology grant awards, launching the Inspiration Seal Certification and Membership Program, facilitating our collaborative Dining in the Dark & Executive Roundtable events, and forging partnerships to grow employment for people with disabilities by 10% over the next five years.

Mr. Grandstaff holds Master’s degrees in Organizational Development, and Business Administration, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, MIS, and International Business. He also has Certificates in Cultural Competence, Small Group activity Methods, and Whole Systems Collaborative Change.

Mr. Grandstaff is actively involved in Nexus4Change, Penny Forward, the Institute for Culture, Change, and Leadership, World Services for the Blind, the Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network, the International Society for Organization Development and Change, National Federation of the Blind, and Disability:IN.

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