Episode 5.8: Roddey Or Not, Work Has to Change

What You’ll Learn

  • Change management helps workers adapt to new workplace systems, policies, and technologies

  • Roddey explains how disabled people often develop strong adaptability skills through lived experience

  • The episode discusses how major companies are improving accessibility, but still have gaps

  • Mandatory office days can create barriers for disabled employees

  • Commuting is a major issue, especially because of transit, parking, weather, snow, ice, and safety risks

  • Accessibility is about more than the office—it includes flexibility, transportation, policy, communication, and belonging

Topics We Cover

  • Roddey Harb’s work in change management and accessible workplace practices

  • Why communication, adaptability, and lived disability experience are central to his work

  • How mandatory in-office days and commuting create major barriers for disabled employees

  • The risks of winter travel, inaccessible transit, parking, sidewalks, and curb cuts

  • How workplace inaccessibility affects belonging, inclusion, safety, policy, culture, and flexibility

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Roddey Or Not, Work Has to Change
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