Chatting with Caroline Casey about Disability, Diversity, and Inclusion

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - 6:29 Introduction and Caroline’s journey of founding The Valuable 500

6:30 - 14:11 Differences between being a non-profit and for-profit founder

14:12 - 18:06 Leadership and how to motivate a team

18:07 - 24:56 Bringing about social change

24:57 - 28:30 The future of corporate diversity and inclusion efforts

28:32 - 34:18 Next steps for The Valuable 500

DESCRIPTION

In this episode of BT Beats, we speak with Caroline Casey an award-winning social entrepreneur and founder of The Valuable 500 - a catalyst for an inclusion revolution that exists to position disability equally on the global business leadership agenda. 

Committed to building a global movement on inclusive business for the 1.3 billion people in the world with a disability, over the past two decades she has set up several organizations and initiatives centered on disability business inclusion.  Her latest initiative, The Valuable 500, is a campaign to get 500 businesses to commit to putting disability inclusion on their leadership agendas.  Launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Summit in 2019, Casey succeeded in bringing disability inclusion onto the main stage at DAVOS for the first time ever with the support of global business leaders. The Valuable 500 is supported by a host of global leaders including Sir Richard Branson, and Paul Polman, and global brands including Microsoft and Sky. Casey is also a TED speaker, Ashoka Fellow, Eisenhower Fellow, a past advisor for the Clinton Global Initiative, a One Young World Counsellor and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Throughout the conversation, we discuss her experiences as a founder and how she has tried to bring about social change. Thanks for listening!