Disabled Leadership Programme
- Open to: Disabled academic and professional services colleagues, at all grades. Applicants don't need to have registered with the University Disability and Advisory Support Service (DASS) to apply.
- Spaces available: 24
- How to apply: Applications are now open - please apply using this form
- Closing date: Wednesday 21 October, 12 noon
What's involved?
The University has partnered with Result CIC to deliver a programme focused on driving positive change both individually and within the organisation by helping participants build leadership skills, gain valuable knowledge, and set personal goals through one-on-one coaching. Result CIC provides a nurturing and inclusive space that promotes personal growth by encouraging participants to explore their values, individuality, resilience, and visibility.
The programme covers key topics from building self-confidence, embracing differences like disabilities and neurodiversity, and enhancing interpersonal effectiveness, to utilising leadership skills, and learning how to use these skills to create positive influence at all levels. The programme will run from 11 February 2027.
How will I benefit/what will I gain?
- Three one-day, in-person workshops
- Three 1-1 virtual coaching sessions with an experienced coach who is disabled, neurodiverse or has long-term health condition.
- Work with experienced disabled facilitators who bring their own leadership stories to create an open, trusting learning environment.
- Increased confidence in your personal style, assertiveness skills, and ability to relate to others.
- The option of preparing and delivering a short presentation of leadership learning to a small audience of senior University representatives
Testimonial
"If you have a disability and want to be empowered in your career, don't hesitate, just apply.
The programme is accommodating and well-structured, and organisers are always open to feedback and dialogue. Professional, approachable and experienced leadership coaches who themselves have a disability, facilitate both a practical and sensitive approach to identifying the value inherent in lived-experience and to developing personal qualities and transferable skills relevant to leadership.
Asides from significantly boosting my career prospects, I gained a greater sense of belonging and validation, and this had a notable positive impact on my performance, motivation and overall health."
Alexandra Sarov, Apprentice Laboratory Assistant, FSE