Confident Conversations Podcast Kate Nash OBE with Matthew Johnston
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In this special edition Confident Conversations podcast Kate Nash OBE, founder of PurpleSpace talks to Matthew Johnston a lifetime advocate for systemic change regarding disability inclusion, accessible tech and AI.
His career started at IBM and he subsequently worked for a number of organisations including UBS, Merryl Lynch, Legal & General and Morgan Stanley until he finally found himself at Thoughtworks where he had global impact on the lives of disabled employees and customers. He too has been a trustee for Scope since 2019.
In this conversation he talks about his life lived confidently, and vibrantly with deafness and now cancer.
We owe it to him to enact his enduring message that we all do one thing in our lives to build an inclusive world for disabled people.
His career started at IBM and he subsequently worked for a number of organisations including UBS, Merryl Lynch, Legal & General and Morgan Stanley until he finally found himself at Thoughtworks where he had global impact on the lives of disabled employees and customers. He too has been a trustee for Scope since 2019.
In this conversation he talks about his life lived confidently, and vibrantly with deafness and now cancer.
We owe it to him to enact his enduring message that we all do one thing in our lives to build an inclusive world for disabled people.
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