Who is Rachael?

Rachael is an accessibility, workplace culture and innovation specialist living near York, England. From researching world-leading best practice as a Churchill Fellow, to facilitating events, operational strategy and project management. Rachael has lived experience of disability and the barriers disabled people face to access the workplace, and over ten years of professional experience in multiple people management focused industries.

Rachael’s background.

Rachael founded SIC CIC in 2021, an award winning non-profit that supports disabled people to up skill their work skills to enter into employment confident and equipped. After exiting the company in 2023 she pursued a research fellowship as a Churchill Fellow, studying inclusion and accessibility- and the role they have in driving innovation within an organisation, travelling to the USA and Europe to meet with global heads of accessibility and leading academic researchers to bring best practice back to the UK. You can read more about the Churchill Fellowship research study here.

She has over a decade of experience within varying Heads Of roles including Head of Communities, and Head of People and Partnerships. She is a Government Advisor for the Department for Transport on DPTAC (Disabled Peoples Transport Advisory Committee), a Lloyds Bank Foundation Business Practitioner, and a Trustee and DEI Lead for Sounddelivery Media.