LIS professional | Researcher | Board Director
Nikki Andersen recently wrote a post about being a disabled boss. I found myself nodding along to Nikki’s reflections on deciding how much of one’s experience to share professionally, without undermining capability or being viewed only through the lens of disability. I also related to Nikki’s reflection on being open and honest about disability as…
A few years ago, I sat in on a leadership webinar about influencing. I found myself counting up which of the recommendations I’d actually find off-putting, despite their being positioned as rapport-building. From my perspective, it lacked the social and cultural nuances of other rooms I sat in. I was there, in the room, in…
We tend to think about processes as the unglamorous part of our work. We struggle through the process to reach an outcome that matters. The outcome is what we tend to share and communicate. It’s the impact and story that we hope to headline. I’ve written a lot about processes over the last few years,…
“Access is a beginning, not an end point … accountability toward disability access means committing to cycles of success, failure, and (re)iteration. Put another way, access is a long-term commitment to do better” (Hamraie, 2016, p. 267). Two of the most common misconceptions I hear in leadership about disability and neurodivergence are that access and…
“Problems hold greater value than solutions; they keep us ontologically alive and epistemologically sharp. History is not shaped by selfish interests, lofty ideals, or grand visions alone, but also by the perpetual encounters with problems that propel humans to ponder, act, and push the wheel of events toward a better future.” (Hiba, 2025) 1 I…