Description: Fifty-four million American adults live with a disability. Add to that tens of millions of parents of children with special needs and mature workers with age-related disabilities and the number grows. Why are these numbers important to your company, agency, organization, or school? Because these people make up the special needs workforce--a group of talented employees that you cannot afford to overlook. Unlike many books about employing the disabled, Nadine Vogel includes in the special needs workforce parents of children with special needs and workers with age-related disabilities. In this book she presents the business case for hiring and supporting this untapped and under-used workforce. She demonstrates the value of inclusion with statistics, anecdotal evidence, and examples from the world's most successful companies. Vogel not only encourages employers to consider this under-used group, but also presents concrete how-to information and best practices from in-the-know corporations. In Dive In, she maps out a plan for inclusion that can increase your company's productivity, elevate your status with your customers, and position your company as an employer of choice.
Brief description: Nadine O. Vogel is the founder and CEO of Springboard Consulting, LLC. Springboard works with national and global firms on how to appropriately support employees who either have a disability or who have a child or other dependent with special needs. Prior to founding Springboard, she held a variety of senior level positions in both Corporate American and the non-profit sectors. Vogel is the author of numerous articles and is recognized as a powerful motivational and inspirational speaker.