The Inclusive Speaker: How to Truly Connect With All of Your Audience Without Leaving Anyone Behind Paperback – Import, 15 May 2023
Denis Boudreau . Prominence Publishing . English
As a professional speaker or communication professional, are you truly as inclusive as you think you are? Every year, communication professionals inadvertently shut the door in the face of hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities and elderly folks, adding to the stigma of exclusion, and leaving millions of dollars of potential revenue on the table in the process. This disconnect leaves people behind, broadens the digital divide, causes irreparable damage to individuals and brands, directly impacts the bottom lines of organizations, and contributes to the degradation of our social fabric. This is a huge societal problem, and this book means to help fix that. Through this book, author Denis Boudreau, a 22+ year web accessibility and digital equality veteran, shares his perspectives on systemic exclusion as being one of the greatest communication threats to face businesses today, and how brands can be more successful, simply by doing the right thing by their audience and empowering them to truly connect.
Categories: Self-Help
About the Author
Denis Boudreau is a consultant, trainer, coach, and speaker who helps organizations embrace the power of disability inclusion in leadership and communication. He specializes in creating digital experiences that welcome everyone – especially those marginalized by technology due to disabilities, ageing, or other circumstances. Driven by a mission to empower people to truly connect, Denis works with leaders and executives to develop inclusive leadership and communication skills that resonate online, on stage, and across teams. His expertise has taken him to audiences across Canada, the United States, Central America, Europe, and Asia, where he’s delivered hundreds of workshops and training sessions in both English and French. Through his work, he’s helped managers and teams increase their reach to hundreds of thousands of people and trained thousands more to break down barriers to connection. Denis holds multiple certifications in accessibility, including the prestigious Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA), a designation shared by fewer than 600 experts worldwide. As one of Canada’s top voices on inclusive leadership, he equips busy professionals with practical tools to lead and communicate inclusively, ensuring their messages reach the 40% of people often excluded by technology or design.
