Denise McCausland
Denise has a Master of Science in Organizational Behaviour. She is currently working for Comic Relief as Senior EDI Manager for sports and social inclusion.
She is a Strategic Advisor, developing and implementing Comic Relief’s EDI strategy in collaboration with their workforce. In her role she is responsible for translating key themes identified employees into strategy, analysing and auditing workforce data, systems, processes and procedures to identify and resolve systemic barriers to progression, psychological safety, lived experience and well-being.
She is an innovative and compassionate strategic advisor, and a specialist in collaborating with organisations to formulate and implement change management regarding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
As an insightful strategist, Denise is highly proficient at aligning corporate objectives with industry best practice. She uses change management, training and coaching techniques to influence stakeholders and advance EDI initiatives.
An experienced anti-racist campaigner with the ability to promote equality through lived experience, professional competence, emotional intelligence, passion and affiliated networks. Denise has extensive knowledge of race inequality and the issues relating to Black Lives Matters.
Richard Frost
Richard is a highly experienced Director in the international disability development sector. He is passionate about disability sports and social inclusion.
Richard is one of the founders of The Motivation Charitable Trust and he served as its CEO from its inception until December 2016. Motivation’s mission is to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, predominantly in developing countries.
While he was working as CEO of Motivation he became an Advisor for Choice. Richard has over 25 years’ experience in the international disability development sector and with a wealth of relevant experience, he now supports Choice as a Director, to build a sustainable future.
David Constantine
David is a trained product designer with direct experience of taking one design from a student project into the real world, creating an internationally recognised and respected non-profit/social enterprise organisation and developing a range of products that have been used in over 130 countries in partnership with some of the major development and humanitarian response organisations worldwide, including the WHO and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
With 40 years of lived experience of disability and working in low income countries, David has a good understanding of the relevance of appropriate design innovation and provision in the right context. He has worked closely with organisations both ‘of’ and ‘for’ people with disabilities.
He also played my part in leading Motivation to become the internationally recognised ‘go to’ organisation for advice and training on wheelchair design and provision for low income countries. He has worked closely with the WHO serving on the Development Committee to develop and publish the ‘WHO Guidelines on the Provision of Manual Wheelchairs in less resourced settings’.
A regular public speaker on subjects such as; lived experience of disability, Motivation’s work, also focussing on design, innovation, assistive technology and rehabilitation. In approaching any subject in this field, he brings a focus on the ‘practical’ to ensure solutions are relevant for real world situations.
Tracey Proudlock BA (Hons) MCIPD
Tracey Proudlock is a leading trainer. She is a graduate from Leeds University, a
member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (MCIPD). She
has undertaken “train the trainer” and has delivered train the trainer programmes
herself. She has run courses to train other disabled people to become disability
equality trainers.
She has experience of designing and delivering Equality Act training and disability equality training courses for large and complex organisations (the BBC, government departments across Whitehall for example).
Tracey has previously been a member of the Office for Disability Initiatives (ODI), a high level, ministerial, disability advisory group.
Tracey provides Equality Act training services to a broad range of clients spanning the public, private and not for profit sector. She has experience of using the Equality Act, Equality & Human Rights Commission Codes of Practice and Accessibility Guidelines, building regulations and best practice tool kits to ensure that services and environments are delivered “barrier free”.
Tracey regularly contributes to national and local media debates about diversity and the inclusion agenda; she is confident and comfortable with public speaking engagements and media appearances.
Previously Tracey provided training for Amnesty International, Anglia Trains, Royal Shakespeare Company, Transport for London, Warner Brothers TV.
Jason Owen
Jason is a specialist in Special Educational Needs and an advocate for inclusion, recognising how sport can change perceptions of disability, both hidden disabilities and physical disabilities. He has delivered training to educational establishments and spoken at the National Education Show. He was awarded the Times Educational Supplement 2009 national award for a sports project which benefited young people at breaks and lunchtimes in schools nationwide.
Jason is also head coach of the England wheelchair rugby 7’s team – he has played for England in internationals in France and in Italy plus many home internationals, demonstrated the sport during the National Paralympic Day at Queen Elizabeth II Park, at the rugby union World Cup, at Wembley stadium and at the World Alternative Games; and introduced the sport to over 4000 young people in recent years. Rugby has two codes and Jason has also regularly played wheelchair rugby league for Wales as well as winning the national club trophy three consecutive years. Jason was also instrumental as one of the two people who set up the first official version of wheelchair American football in the UK.
He has sports coaching qualifications in well over a dozen different sports from table tennis to gymnastics, football to tennis, wheelchair sports to swimming.
Outside of sport and education, he has written numerous books under a pseudonym, has now been a trustee of the charity Kasbah for several years; and almost 35 years ago, he played football for United (Hereford, not Manchester).