Twenty-five years building what most speakers only talk about.
Keynotes, workshops, and fireside chats for organizations ready to move disability inclusion from awareness to action. I have hired hundreds of people with disabilities, placed talent with employers, built programs from the inside, and trained leaders responsible for making inclusion work.
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Now booking · Disability Pride Month · Americans with Disabilities Act anniversary · National Disability Employment Awareness Month
What clients say
Felicia brings amazing energy to the stage, quickly building rapport with diverse groups of individuals … She is a seasoned presenter adapting to her audience to drive the message while making the connection relevant and compelling.Sr. Director, Public Sector
ManpowerGroup
Where I've spoken
- National Association of Colleges and Employers
- American Heart Association
- DirectEmployers
- DIFEST Global
- American Staffing Association
- Monster
- Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Global Inclusion Online Forum
- Fair360
- New York Life
- Northrop Grumman
- University of Massachusetts Boston
- Institute for Community Inclusion
- and many more
The talks organizations are booking now.
Three high-impact sessions for organizations ready to challenge assumptions, strengthen workplace systems, and make disability inclusion practical without making it small.
Beyond Binary: Embracing Intersectional Identities in the Workplace.
Research shows that autistic people are significantly more likely than non-autistic people to identify as non-heterosexual, experience gender dysphoria, and be transgender. Employees living at this intersection are deciding every day which parts of themselves are safe to show at work. This session examines the barriers they face and what organizations can do beyond awareness, statements, and one-time programming.
Delivered for the American Heart Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers, and featured in the Loud & Clear newsletter conversation reaching thousands on LinkedIn.
Request the session overview →Designing Work for Human Reality.
How understanding neurodiversity, disability, and caregiving makes us better at work.
Disability, neurodiversity, mental health, and caregiving are part of everyday work life. This session shows how rigid systems, unclear expectations, and disclosure risk create barriers, and what organizations can do instead: design work with more flexibility, clarity, accessibility, and consistency.
Recently delivered for Vituity.
Request the session overview →The Silence We Inherit.
Mental health, hidden disability, and what it costs an organization when people decide it's safer to stay quiet.
This isn't an "it's okay not to be okay" session. It's the harder conversation underneath: why your most capable people hide the parts of themselves that need support, what that silence costs in retention and performance, and the concrete responses managers can make in the first sixty seconds after someone discloses a disability. I tell the truth, even when it's not what the room wants to hear.
Presented for L'Oréal, delivered as a national webinar with Mental Health America, and featured in the Loud & Clear newsletter.
Request the session overview →Planning Disability Pride Month, ADA anniversary, or NDEAM programming? Calendars are filling now.
What audiences leave with.
Audiences leave with language they can use, assumptions they can challenge, and practical ways to make disability inclusion real inside hiring, management, accommodations, culture, and leadership decisions.
- A clearer understanding of where disability inclusion breaks down inside workplace systems.
- Practical tools leaders, managers, employees, allies, and caregivers can apply immediately.
- A stronger business case for moving beyond awareness programming into operational change.
- A sharper lens for recognizing overlooked talent and redesigning systems that reward contribution, not conformity.
Formats and durations.
Felicia offers high-impact sessions that can be delivered virtually or in person and customized to the audience, sector, and learning objectives.
| Format | Duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote | 30–60 minutes | Standard or customized to the event. |
| Workshop, interactive | 90 minutes | Strong fit for executive, manager, employee, or Employee Resource Group audiences. |
| Fireside chat or moderated conversation | 60 minutes | Felicia can serve as featured guest or moderator. Strong fit for leadership and global conversations. |
| Webinar | 60 minutes | Strong fit for distributed teams and recognition-month programming. |
| Employee Resource Group session | 45–60 minutes | Strong fit for Disability Pride Month, ADA anniversary, NDEAM, Pride Month, and Mental Health Awareness Month. |
Every session can be customized to your audience, your sector, and your learning objectives.
Every side of the desk, with twenty-five years of proof behind the perspective.
I speak from every side of the desk: as the staffing leader who hired hundreds of people with disabilities and placed them with employers because it made business stronger; as the executive who built programs other organizations now learn from; and as the granddaughter who knows what happens when systems fail people entirely.
With 25 years in workforce leadership, I bring disability inclusion out of theory and into the decisions leaders make every day: who gets hired, who gets accommodated, who advances, and who gets overlooked.
Felicia brings a high level of passion and enthusiasm to making a difference with disability employment. She is an excellent public speaker, a subject matter expert in the field, and skilled at making strong connections.President/Owner, Right at Home
A track record across boardrooms, conferences, and stages.
Twenty-plus years delivering keynotes, panels, and sessions at national and international conferences, federal agencies, and corporate events.
National & International Conference Keynotes, Panels & Sessions
- American Heart Association "Beyond Binary: Embracing Intersectional Identities in the Workplace"
- Bimbo Bakeries "Recruiting People with Disabilities" panel
- Brandeis University
- Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities
- CECP "Recruiting, Retaining, and Advancing Talent with Disabilities"
- Citi
- DIFEST Global "How Racial Microaggressions Impact Mental Health" panel · Fireside chat interview with the Deputy Minister of Public Service Accessibility, Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada · "Building a Culture to Support Disability Inclusion" International Panel discussion
- Direct Employers Annual National Conference plenary, breakout sessions, and several webinars
- Global Online Inclusion Forum Breakout session and panel discussion
- NAF
- National Association of Colleges & Employers Annual National Conference breakout sessions and several webinars
- National Employment and disAbility Conference
- National Summit on Building an Inclusive Workforce Group facilitator
- Sony
Federal, State & National Engagements
- 26 Statewide Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies "Developing Successful Business Relationships"
- Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation National Employment Team, Business Engagement
- Easter Seals
- Employer Assistance & Resource Network (askearn.org) "Build the Pipeline: Effective Disability Outreach and Recruitment" national webinar
- Louisiana Workforce Commission Diversity Works
- Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission
- Massachusetts Statewide Consumer Conference
- National Association of Workforce Boards National Conference "Collaboration Required: Creating Pathways to Employment for People with Disabilities"
For six years, developed, delivered, and moderated the majority of national webinars provided by the National Organization on Disability.
Conference stages, leadership panels, and frontline training rooms.
The settings change, the value does not.
Speaking at the National Organization on Disability's 40th anniversary celebration
On stage at the National Organization on Disability's New Frontiers conference, Washington DC
Frontline Manager Disability Inclusion Training
DIFEST Global Conference, San Francisco, CA
Ready to bring this conversation to your audience?
Invite Felicia to deliver a keynote, workshop, webinar, fireside chat, or Employee Resource Group session built for practical impact.
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