People with Disabilities Are an Untapped Talent Pool

It is now accepted wisdom that increasing the diversity of your
workforce in any dimension
can improve both organizational culture
and performance. But one group — people
living with intellectual, developmental, and physical
disabilities — continues to be
overlooked by many companies. Luisa Alemany, associate
professor at London Business School, has studied
workplaces that do recruit and
hire employees with disabilities and found that it
can be a true source of competitive advantage. She explains four
main ways this talent strategy benefits the firm. She’s the
coauthor, along with Freek Vermeulen, of the HBR article
“Disability as a Source of Competitive Advantage.”