Keynote speaker and workshop facilitator.
Talks and training on resilience, inclusion, and authentic leadership, grounded in lived disability experience and practical business application.
Shay Edmonds
A former 911 emergency communications engineer who lost his sight to Anti-MOG and rebuilt his identity, career, and independence.
Shay brings a perspective few speakers can: lived disability experience alongside professional training in psychology, integrative nutrition, and health coaching, and experience supporting hundreds of people through individual and group coaching.
Talks built for leaders, teams and care professionals.
Adaptive Resilience in the Workplace
Building strength through flexibility. Traditional resilience training assumes everyone bounces back the same way. Adaptive resilience builds stronger, more sustainable responses by honoring different strengths and limits.
- Why “bounce back” thinking limits teams
- Capacity management that prevents burnout
- Systems that support different stress responses
- Psychologically safe environments
- Measuring success beyond productivity
Beyond Compliance: True Disability Inclusion
From accommodation to innovation. Move past legal minimums to genuinely inclusive workplaces. Accessibility benefits everyone, and disability-informed practice is a competitive advantage.
- The business case for authentic inclusion
- Common accessibility mistakes that harm relationships
- How disability innovation improves products for everyone
- Disability-confident leadership teams
- Advancement pathways for disabled employees
Leadership Through Crisis and Change
Guidance from the margins. Disabled people are experts at navigating systems that weren’t designed for them. Those skills translate directly to leading through uncertainty and rapid change.
- Deciding when information is incomplete
- Resource optimization and creative problem-solving
- Support networks that actually support
- Communicating vision in turbulent times
- Keeping teams together through transitions
The Innovation of Limitation
How constraints drive creativity. The disability community created technologies and approaches everyone now uses. Embracing constraints, rather than fighting them, drives breakthrough thinking.
- Historical examples of disability-driven innovation
- Constraint-based design thinking
- Building diverse problem-solving teams
- A culture that values different approaches
- Turning limitations into advantages
Transformation Without Toxic Positivity
Sustainable change that honors reality. “Mind over matter” messaging leaves people feeling like failures when their reality doesn’t cooperate. Real change starts from what is actually true.
- Why “mind over matter” thinking damages teams
- Realistic goal-setting frameworks
- Supporting people through difficult transitions
- Success measures that honor different paths
- Sustainable motivation vs. short-lived inspiration
Every talk can be tailored to your audience, including healthcare teams, vocational rehabilitation and HR.
Ways to bring this work to your people.
Keynote presentations
Talks on adaptive resilience, inclusive leadership, and identity after life-altering change.
Interactive workshops
Hands-on sessions on capacity management and disability-informed practice.
Training programs
Multi-session professional development for teams and leaders.
Virtual presentations
Accessible, live sessions delivered wherever your people are.
Panel discussions
Lived-experience and professional perspective for your panel.
Executive consulting
Advisory conversations for leaders shaping policy and support pathways.
Accessibility commitment. Every engagement is planned with access in mind, from formats and materials to pacing.
Or email your event date, location, audience size, format and preferred topic to shay@reinventionworksonline.com.