UK associates

Karen Flood

Trainer

Karen Flood is the former co-chair of the National Forum for People with Learning Disabilities, which meets up four times a year, submitting issues to the Department of Health's Task Force. read more

Andrew Bruce

Associate, East Sussex County Council

Andrew currently holds the post of Policy and Service Development Officer - Direct payments, at East Sussex County Council. He has responsibility for developing independent living initiatives for adults eligible for social care services, and is also helping to lead the implementation of the Government’s “Putting People First” agenda. read more

Bob Twitchin

Associate

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Helen Cooke

Associate, My+ Consulting

Helen Cooke is a HR professional, disabilityconsultant, trainer and speaker. Helen founded My Plus Consulting in 2005 andworks with organisations to help them to understand and address the issues around disability. She specifically focuses on enabling organisations to leverage the potential that exists amongst disabled individuals. read more

Steve Walter

EFD associate

Steve Walter currently works for the manufacturers' organisation EEF, as a Health, Safety, Climate and Environment Adviser, where he specialises in occupational health related issues.

He is also a well established independent trainer and has delivered numerous presentations to conferences, seminars and workshops especially through the Employers' Forum on Disability, sharing his personal experience of mental ill health.

Dr. David Bonnett RIBA, FRSA

Visiting Professor of Architecture, David Bonnett Architects

David Bonnett is a consultant architect with a background in both local authority and private practice. He has run architectural projects from inception to completion for housing, offices and public buildings. read more

Stephen Duckworth

Chief Executive, Disability Matters

Stephen Duckworth has been an associate of EFD since its formation. Through his company, Disability Matters Ltd, he has worked with a vast array of private and public sector organisations. read more

Phil Friend OBE

Director, Minty & Friend Ltd

Phil Friend, himself a wheelchair user, is acknowledged as the UK's foremost consultant on disability matters. A powerful and highly popular communicator, his company, Minty & Friend, provides both consultancy and training support to many of the country's best-known companies. read more

Caroline Gooding

Director, Diversity Works for London

Caroline Gooding is an equality consultant and Associate of the Employers Forum on Disability. From 2000 – 2008 she was Special Advisor and Director of Legislative Change at the Disability Rights Commission, responsible for leading their work on the Disability Equality Duty, Goods and Services and Legislative Change. read more

Dr Alice Maynard

Managing director, Future Inclusion

Dr Alice Maynard is founder and managing director of Future Inclusion, which helps organisations develop strategies to employ and provide services to people in parts of the community they find hard to reach. Her consultancy experience spans over 10 years and she has worked with clients from public, private and voluntary sectors. read more

Simon Minty

Director, Minty & Friend Ltd

Simon Minty has been a partner and director of Minty & Friend since 2001. He has a Masters in Disability Management at Work and a BSc. (Joint Hons) Philosophy and Sociology. Before Minty & Friend, Simon worked for Barclays Bank for eight years as a trainer. read more

Paul A Mouzer

Director, bluemouse

Born deaf, and then later acquiring visual impairment, Paul Mouzer is proud to be one of only 20 associates of the world renowned Employers' Forum on Disability and is regularly consulted on disability matters by Cabinet Ministers, Government, Local Government and various media people. read more

Kate Nash OBE

Director, Kate Nash Associates

Kate Nash is currently a freelance diversity consultant. She has 20 years experience in working strategically to effect long-term attitudinal and major social systems change in relation to disabled people. She has worked extensively with the business community in their becoming more ‘disability confident'. read more

James Partridge OBE, DSc (Hon), FDSRCSEd (Hon)

Chief Executive, Changing Faces

James Partridge was severely burned in a car fire in 1970 at the age of 18. He set up Changing Faces in 1992 after the warm reception to his book of the same name published by Penguin in 1990. He wanted to pass on the lessons he had learned and to work for rights and inclusion of people with facial and body disfigurements. read more

Eleanor Williams MA (Oxon), LLM (Leicester)

Solicitor, Darwin Gray

Eleanor Williams is a solicitor with the firm Darwin Gray in Cardiff. read more

Rick Williams CFCIPD

Director, Freeney Williams

Rick Williams is the managing director of Freeney Williams Ltd which is one of the UK's leading consultancies in the field of disability and diversity. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and an Associate of Employers' Forum on Disability. read more

Monica Wilson

Chief Executive, Disability Action

Monica Wilson, chief executive of Disability Action, the Agency with which she has been associated for a number of years, is a strong advocate of the rights of people with disabilities. She is a disabled person and prior to joining the voluntary sector, she was a teacher. read more