Susan Scott-Parker

Susan Scott-Parker is an internationally recognised thought leader who has made a career from challenging outdated assumptions regarding both disability as it impacts business and the potential of responsible business to adapt respectfully for human reality.

She founded the first business disability network, now BDF(UK) and Business Disability International, and is Strategic Advisor to the ILO Global Business & Disability Network, which recently launched the Global Benchmark – the ILOGBDN Self-Assessment management tool- acknowledging her crucial contribution as Strategist and Content Architect.

 In 2003 Susan invented the discourse  of ‘Disability Confidence’ – knowing that if we can change the way we talk about the world, we make it easier to change the world. Her work is distinctive in its aim to deliver practical, tangible mutual benefit for business, people with disabilities, the global economy, and wider society.  

Susan founded the ‘Disability Ethical AI’ campaign alongside Atos, IBM, Simmons & Simmons, the European Disability Forum, and New York University, to address the risks to the life chances of hundreds of millions triggered by the use of AI powered HR Technologies. www.disabilityethicalai.org

Susan acted as Strategic Advisor to the Government of Canada’s Disability Inclusion Business Council and has long-standing strategic alliances with the Australian business network on disability (ADN), , G3ICT, GIZ, the MyAbility Business Disability Network; The New Zealand Disability Employers Network, Purple Space & the  #Positively Purple movement, Valuable 500 and The Zero Project.