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
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
Peter Mansell B.A. (Hons) Dip.M
Director for Patient Experience and Public Involvement, National Patient Safety Agency
Peter Mansell left school without any qualifications and worked in various manual jobs until becoming paraplegic at the age of 20, in 1978, through a road traffic accident. Peter has been employed as the Director for Patient Experience and Public Involvement at the National Patient Safety Agency (an NHS Special Health Authority) since May 2002. 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
Penny Melville-Brown
Director, Disability Dynamics
Formerly a naval criminal barrister and Commander, Penny Melville-Brown runs Disability Dynamics offering equality training and consultancy. 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
Professor Robert Sang
Director, Sang Jacobsson Ltd
Bob Sang is a leading independent policy advisor and strategy consultant, with specific expertise in systems redesign, reconfiguration, and reform throughout the NHS and Social Care, with a particular focus on engagement of patients, public and staff. 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