9 Top Tips in Disability Network / Resource Group Leadership

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Driving cultural change for disabled people isn’t easy. It requires excellent leadership skill – and being a network/resource group leader isn’t easy. It requires you to be the very best ‘you’ in your leadership role. In this briefing, Kate Nash OBE, founder, and CEO of PurpleSpace shares with us the things she has learned about great leaders working in disability rights – which can be applied to network/resource group leadership. These tips are drawn from the works of many bloggers who write on leadership as well as the interactions she has had with hundreds of great network/resource group leaders working around the world. They hold true for executive sponsors/champions and allies.
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