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Telework: Opening New Employment Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities

If we stop long enough to reflect on life's lessons, some of us are blessed with the ability to use our expertise to give back to others. I would like to share the discovery of what I feel is my purpose and my life's passion - a mission that has led me to what I and many others believe are solutions for dramatically increasing employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.

The past 25 years of my career as a "turnaround consultant" for financially distressed companies led me to the creation of CORA, Creating Opportunities by Recognizing Abilities. Serving as both interim CEO and CFO of financially distressed companies, I have trained over a thousand managers and staff to improve profits and productivity in over 35 industries. Always in search of the ideal employee for my clients, I often wondered what happened to the old work ethic where an employee was competent, loyal, productive, and enthusiastic about the success of the business. The employee should be eager to learn and assume more responsibility, as well as be excited about his or her company's future and the role he or she can play in helping to achieve those objectives.

Through a series of synchronistic events, I was able to look at my life experiences and come to the realization that there is a very competent underemployed population that, once given the opportunity to work from home, would excel at telework. There are many extremely talented individuals with disabilities, who are not able to work outside of their homes. Millions of individuals with disabilities are unemployed, and CORA clearly demonstrates that these workers are more dedicated, focused, productive, and serious about their work performance than the average employee. Given the necessary tools to help apply their skills in a remote worker realm, and a strong mentoring and support system, they excel at telework.

Click here to view my white paper on the benefits of Telework