Inclusive by Design Virtual Workshop
Date and Time
Thursday Nov 13, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
Fees/Admission
This is a free, 1-hour long virtual session where participants will learn about essential disability awareness concepts, implementing workplace accommodations, inclusive onboarding and recruitment techniques, and how to utilize workplace inclusion partnerships. Strict limit of 50 participants.
Participants who attend the event will receive a $250 honorarium. Limit one honorarium per business. Attendees must attend for the full hour to be eligible for the honorarium.
Website
Contact Information
Andrew Rowberry, Director of Membership Services
Send Email
Description
Hire by Talent is a national awareness campaign aimed at increasing employer confidence in hiring people with disabilities and provides resources to help employers tap into this talent pool during their search for skilled workers.
Delivered by CBDC Restigouche, Hire for Talent is designed to address the coming need for workforce diversity. This initiative is focused on disability as the primary profound impact on workplace inclusion. Hiring workers with disabilities generates measurable improvements to a workplace's culture, morale, staff retention, safety, and innovation.
Meet the Speaker
Sean McEwen is a Workplace Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Culture Consultant and a Director at RealEyes Capacity Consultants. Sean supports businesses and non-profit organizations to build workforce sustainability through diverse and inclusive workplaces.
Over the past 26 years Sean has been designing and overseeing Employment Inclusion services for groups underrepresented in employment, while providing leadership and coaching to teams of career practitioners serving jobseekers and employers. Sean has created and facilitated training for employers across Canada, and has helped develop regional, provincial and national networks dedicated to the employment inclusion of underrepresented groups. He is the 2018 recipient of the “Award of Excellence in Employment” granted by the Alberta Premier’s Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities. Sean also designed and directed the GEDI-Hub, Western Canada’s first Employer Resource Centre for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Late in his career, Sean was diagnosed with 5 different disabilities and discovered that he had been working successfully for decades with several of these conditions.
Sean’s educational background is in Youth Services and Mental Health. He is a Certified Employment Specialist and has chaired the board of directors for both the Alberta Association for Supported Employment, as well as the Canadian Association of Supported Employment. Sean works across Canada but is based in Victoria. He lived and worked in Calgary for many years and has worked extensively with Indigenous communities in Treaty 7. Sean’s Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) name is Oh’sskoi piiksi (blue bird).
