A conversation with Luke Zelley - a podcast by GST Michigan Works

In this episode, we speak with Luke Zelley, CEO of the Disability Network, in honor of October being National Disability Month.

The Disability Network is a local, private non-profit in Genesee County that believes in a world where everyone has value. The Disability Networks connects people to businesses, with the thought process that everybody has potential. They help shine a light on traits that some would look at a person with a disability as a “weakness” and use it as a strength in the workforce.

Luke explains that if they can get people to rethink disabilities, it will remove the unconscious bias most people have for the disabled. Not everybody with a disability needs an accommodation. Their mission is to change the perception, the way people see others with disabilities, by being bold enough to have these conversations and change peoples minds about what a disability looks like or what it doesn’t look like, taking the disability “stigma” out of the workplace.

To learn more about the disability network, please visit https://www.disnetwork.org.

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