PurpleSpace Insights Report - April 2022

'Disability Champion' or 'Executive Sponsor' is a term used to describe colleagues who believe that disabled people should experience full equality in the workplace. 

They are likely to be people who understand that employees can perform better if they can be themselves and ask for the adjustments they need (if they need them at all) and they will use their role and influence to create a workplace

Employee networks or resource groups are ultimately about people. With the right values, direction and leadership, they can make a significant and lasting contribution to how the organisation anticipates, accommodates and celebrates its disabled talent.

Every organisation is different, so every network or resource group will have different aims and objectives.

Having worked with hundreds of

In the current business climate, networks/Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) need every ounce of support they can get to help the business understand the power of employee networks. 

Networks / ERGs can be amazing agents of change, helping embed diversity and inclusion into the culture of an organisation, they are processes – not destinations.

They are a tool or a technique for enabling change. If