Interview

Joe Devon – Co-Founder of GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day)

Interview / Neil Milliken / May 15, 2017 / accessibility, GAAD, Global, Global Accessibility, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Investment Banks, Performance Management, Programmers, Search Engine Technology, Search Engines, Telcos, Telcos and Media

Awaiting Quality Captions Joe Devon is a serial entrepreneur and computer programmer with over 30 years of development experience. Joe has worked on projects spanning Search Engine technology, Performance Management, Investment Banks, Telcos & Media. In addition to starting several companies, Joe serves/d as an advisor at several startups, leading industry conferences and nonprofits. Last but not least, Joe Co-Founded Global Accessibility Awareness […]

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Susanna Laurin Talks About European Accessibility Legislation

Interview / Neil Milliken / May 8, 2017

Awaiting Quality Captions Susanna Returns to AXSChat to discuss European Accessibility Standards and legislation. Susanna Laurin has a long experience in working with disability-related issues at senior management level, for instance as CEO of one of the subsidiaries of the Swedish Association of the Visually Impaired’s corporate group IRIS, and the Swedish Independent Living Institute.

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Rob Laffan – Creator of TippyTalk

Interview / Neil Milliken / May 2, 2017 / adding value, Autism, Automation & Robotic systems, communicate, Engineering, non-verbal autism, non-verbal learning disorder, Rob Laffan, Sadiecom, TippyTalk

Awaiting Quality Captions Mr Laffan’s occupational background previous to creating Tippytalk would have been in management. In 2015 Rob attainted a degree in Engineering, specifically Automation & Robotic systems in 2015. Rob Laffan is a loving father of a beautiful little girl named Sadie, who just happens to be non-verbal. It was this love for

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Felipe Alonso – Founder of Nos, Why Not?, Agency Photographers with Intellectual Disabilities

Interview / Neil Milliken / April 24, 2017 / "Nos, agency, agency of photographers with intellectual disabilities, Felope Alonso, Me Workshops, Moro Foto, People with Disabilities, photographers with intellectual disabilities, photography, Why Not?"

Awaiting Quality Captions Coming from the world of business, and after 3 years of studying photography, he created a photography studio. In the year 89, he joined as a collaborator in the newspaper “El Mundo del S XXI” in Barcelona, where he became Head of Photography of the edition of Catalunya. Since 1996, he

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Ekaterina Walter – Best Selling Author, International Speaker, and Business Innovator.

Interview / Neil Milliken / April 18, 2017 / Accenture, and Social Media to Marketing Your Brand, Branderati, Ekaterina Walter, Fortune 500, Intel, SoMe Awards, Sprinklr, The Forbes 2014 World Top 40 Social Marketing Talent, The Power of Visual Storytelling: How to Use Visuals, Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Videos, Wall Street Journal bestseller

Awaiting quality captions Ekaterina Walter led strategic and marketing innovation for Fortune 500 brands such as Intel and Accenture. Branderati, the start-up she co-founded, was acquired by Sprinklr where she now serves as Global Evangelist. Ekaterina is an international speaker and author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller “Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably

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Dr. Flip Schrameijer – Sociologist, Mental health specialist, Novelist, & Founder of Architecture for Autism

Interview / Neil Milliken / April 11, 2017 / #a11y, Ability, adapted architecture, Amsterdam Adolescent Clinic of Amsterdam university, Author, Autism, Autism Centre Dr Leo Kannerhuis, autism spectrum, autistic spectrum, Disabilities, disability, Flip Schrameijer, Global, inclusion, Kannerhuis, Netherlands Centre for Mental Health, psychology, pwd, researcher, sociologist

Awaiting Quality Captions Flip is a Dutch sociologist with a PhD in social psychology who worked for seventeen years at the Netherlands Centre for Mental Health as a researcher and manager. Self-employed since 1996 as a researcher, writer and consultant. Wrote several books on mental health issues (two about the problems and treatment of disturbed

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Stefan Trömel – Senior Disability Specialist of The International Labour Organization (ILO)

Interview / Neil Milliken / April 1, 2017 / Disabilities, disability, Disability Specialist, Global, ILO, inclusion, International Disability Alliance, International Labour Organization, Labour Organization, Persons with Disabilities, pwd, Senior Disability Specialist, Stefan Trömel, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Awaiting Quality Captions Stefan Trömel, Senior Disability Specialist in the International Labour Organization (ILO) since August 2013. His current duties include the coordination of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network. Between 2008 and 2013, held the position of Executive Director of the International Disability Alliance, the global umbrella organization of organizations of persons

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Ann Douglas – Bestselling Parenting Book Author and Keynote Speaker

Interview / Neil Milliken / March 27, 2017 / Ann Douglas, CBC Radio, Hope, Mental Health, Parenting Through the Storm, Wellness

Awaiting Quality Captions Ann is the author of Parenting Through the Storm: Find Help, Hope, and Strength When Your Child Has Psychological Problems (Guilford Press), a book that is based on interviews with over 50 parents who have weathered similar storms with their kids and who are eager to share their best advice with other parents. She

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Aurélien Levy – CEO of Temesis

Interview / Neil Milliken / March 20, 2017 / #a11y, A11Y Québec, AccessAbilities, accessibility, Accessible Design, Aurélien Levy, CEO, Confoo Montreal, CSUN, digital a11y, Digital Accessibility, Disabilities, disability, French Government Accessibillity, Funka, Global Inclusion, inclusion, Openweb, Parisweb, Parisweb Conference, Persons with Disabilities, pwd, RGAA 1, RGAA 2, Temesis

Awaiting Quality Captions Aurélien is CEO of Temesis, a French company working on digital accessibility and quality. He works as a consultant and he is one of the main authors of the French government’s accessibility guidelines RGAA version 1 and 2. He is also and international speaker (CSUN, Funka accessibility days, A11y Québec, Confoo Montreal, etc)

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Shanthi Flynn – Group Chief Human Resources Officer

Interview / Neil Milliken / March 13, 2017 / AS Watson Group, Boots Company, Chief Human Resources Officer, Ford Motor Company, Group Executive Committee, HR, HR Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, Human Resources, inclusion, S Flynn Consulting, Shanthi Flynn, Walmart Asia, WEF Global Future Councils

Awaiting Quality Captions Member of the Group Executive Committee since March 2016 Shanthi Flynn joined the Adecco Group as Chief Human Resources Officer in March 2016. She completed a Bachelor of Science with joint honours in Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Manchester in 1986. Upon graduating, she began her professional career at Ford Motor Company in

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