People with long-term and energy limiting conditions are an asset to the workplace. They’re qualified, highly skilled, and creative thinkers who add value to any industry or organisation, and they’re seeking meaningful work with inclusive employers like you.
Did you know that…
Making Employment Work For People With Long-Term Conditions Report (Astriid, 2023)
You are investing in more than just a training session:
We bring together lived experience, deep expertise, and practical solutions to help organisations become more inclusive, accessible, and future-ready.
Most training ends when the session does. Astriid’s doesn’t.
As part of our training packages, we offer a long-term partnership. Like any meaningful change, it takes time, commitment, and collaboration. That’s why we don’t just deliver training – we work with you, helping your business grow into a truly inclusive, and accessible place to work.
Our training sessions cover four key areas:
All of our Astriid training sessions are delivered remotely via teams or zoom, and include time for group discussion and Q and A’s.
If you are looking to attract diverse talent to your organisation, it’s essential that your recruitment processes are inclusive – they provide you with the first opportunity to showcase your offering to potential employee. From our lived experience, we know that the way your recruitment process is presented to candidates plays a huge part in their decision to apply or not to apply to your organisation. We have two sessions that are focused on:
The number of people with long-term conditions entering the workforce, and people developing such conditions during their working life, is increasing at a rapid rate. During this workshop, we will explore taking a person-centred approach to workplace adjustments, improving lines of communication between employees and line managers, adapting inclusion strategies to improve staff retention rates, ways of evaluating your current workplace culture and lived experiences of people with long-term conditions in your workforce, and plenty more.
Workplace flexibility is crucial for attracting skilled people with long-term conditions to businesses. This training dives into the specifics in this area, highlighting reasonable adjustments that can break down access barriers, ways to implement personalised support for employees, and how to reduce the risk of masking or burnout to facilitate their wellbeing over the longer term – and can all be communicated online at a time, place, and pace that suits you.
Do you know how to talk about long-term conditions in the workplace? Through Astriid’s Inclusive Language Training, you will become familiar with key terms and narratives surrounding long-term conditions, that are often omitted from traditional disability inclusion training, and how your language use and communication styles can empower employees managing such conditions in your workforce.
Head of Consulting
Catherine has ten years of disability inclusion leadership, policy and research expertise. She is a thought-leader in long-term and energy-limiting conditions in the workplace and Founder of Chronic Illness Inclusion.
Associate Consultant
Alison is an experienced Training Consultant, Facilitator and Coach with lived experience of chronic illness. She has worked in HR, and then Learning and Development for an international city law firm before freelancing mainly with top law firms and the public sector. Alison has an MSc in Organizational Behaviour and is CIPD qualified.
Charity CEO
Steve has led the Astriid charity since its launch by the founder, David Shutts OBE, in 2018. His career has been centred on business consultancy and marketing, and he now has responsibility for the development of effective corporate relationships.
Communications Consultant
Pippa is a writer, speaker, and content creator who's named as one of the most influential disabled people in the UK. She has a particular interest in inclusive and sustainable employment practice for people with energy-limiting conditions like her own.
Researcher
Katy is a keen researcher with experience in the non-profit sector. Her area of interest is in improving workplace accessibility for those with long-term health conditions. She is an advocate for disability inclusion, derived from her own lived experience and from her role in Astriid's Job Matching team where she helps candidates access meaningful work.
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