Caroline Casey

Founder of The Valuable 500, Disability Inclusion Advocate, Ashoka Fellow

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Caroline Casey Biography

Caroline Casey is the founder of The Valuable 500, a groundbreaking global initiative focusing on disability inclusion in business. Born with ocular albinism, a condition that rendered her legally blind, Casey concealed her disability until her vision deteriorated significantly, compelling her to disclose it to her employer. After leaving her role as a management consultant, she embarked on a transformative journey, traveling across India on an elephant named Kanchi to fundraise for Sight Savers. This experience inspired her to establish Kanchi, a nonprofit dedicated to shifting societal attitudes and behaviors toward people with disabilities through collaboration with business leaders. Kanchi is renowned for its innovative approach, developing ISO 9000 quality standards-based best practices for businesses to reimagine "disabled" workers as valuable assets. This initiative has successfully influenced hundreds of companies to alter their policies and perspectives.

In addition to founding Kanchi, in 2004, Casey launched the O2 Ability Awards to honor Irish businesses that excel in including people with disabilities as employees and customers. These awards have gained international recognition and have expanded into a similar program in Spain. Plans are underway to further roll out the awards internationally across multiple countries. Casey's involvement in global dialogues has brought her to platforms like TED, the World Economic Forum in Davos, and the Clinton Global Initiative. She has also been acknowledged as the first Irish individual to be named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is an Ashoka Fellow. She received an honorary doctorate from National University Ireland and currently serves on the boards of various media and charity organizations in Ireland.

Caroline Casey's advocacy also extends to major global events such as One Young World and the Clinton Initiative, where she delivers powerful speeches to inspire and promote diversity and inclusion. Her presentations, lauded for their authenticity and impact, have touched audiences at high-profile venues, including Microsoft Ireland, the Annual Conference of Chartered Accountants Ireland, and EMEA Salesforce. She consistently earns high praise for her engaging style and insightful content that covers topics like personal growth, the complexities of modern Diversity & Inclusion, and authentic leadership. Recently, Casey was highlighted as a standout speaker at the Million Dollar Round Table and received exceptional feedback for her presentation on career development at Dell Ireland.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/26/2024.

Caroline Casey Speaking Topics

  • Innovation Through Difference

  • The Business Case for Disability

  • The Adversity Advantage

  • Who Says We Can't? Looking Past Limits

  • Disability: The New Green

    When the Green Movement began, businesses didn't take it seriously. Gradually, however, they realized that recycling and reducing waste could save them money and that, in a crowded market, embracing the Green agenda could give them a competitive edge. As more and more businesses got on board, a tipping point was reached: it was no longer a case of "if" you were addressing the issue, but "how" you were addressing it.

    Today, disability is the new Green. Businesses are starting to realize that they need to proactively look at disability and how they include people with disabilities as customers and as employees. Globally there are 1 billion people with disabilities. That's one in seven people • a market the size of China. Employers must realize that in order to ensure they have the best person fulfilling each role in their business, they must recruit in a way that doesn't discriminate against people with disabilities. They simply can't afford to lose talented employees who have existing or acquired disabilities.

    In this inspirational keynote geared toward HR groups, speaker Caroline Casey shares her experience with disability and explains why corporations need to get on board this new movement.

  • The power of YOU

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Caroline Casey is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Innovation Through Difference, The Business Case for Disability, The Adversity Advantage, Who Says We Can't? Looking Past Limits, Disability: The New Green and The power of YOU. The estimated speaking fee range to book Caroline Casey for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Caroline Casey generally travels from DublinIreland and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Alexandra Cousteau, Robin Chase, Hugh Evans, John Wood and Joseph P. Kennedy II. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Caroline Casey for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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