The battle for brainpower

I recently had a conversation with one of the Commissioners of the EEOC. One of the new initiatives that they are launching is the "LEAD" initiative. LEAD stands for Leadership for the Employment of Americans with Disabilities. I believe it is vritical for government agencies to take the lead in employing people with disabilities. They are the ones that will provide model by which all other organizations should follow when it comes to employing people with disabilities. However, before entering this initiative one of the vital pieces to understand about this community is the valuable human capital that they provide. In a speech at Harvard University in 1943 Winston Churchill stated that "the empires of the future will be empires of the mind". Going foward government agencies must highlight this very idea. As talent becomes one of the world's most sought after commidity's it is essential that the disability & aging communities be seen as an important demographic when it comes to searching for future brainpower.

So what can government agencies do to access this 'untapped' demographic? Well, that will be in my next post!