Selected Work

The examples below are illustrative rather than exhaustive. They are shared to convey the kinds of contexts and roles in which I am trusted, rather than to provide a comprehensive record of engagements.

Leadership and Advocacy Development across Africa

Design and facilitation of multi-country leadership and advocacy programmes under the African Disability Forum’s We Can Work initiative. This work supports emerging leaders with disabilities in deepening their leadership practice, advocacy capabilities, and systems-level engagement across diverse national contexts.

Advocacy Capacity Strengthening with OPDs

Ongoing collaboration with national organisations of persons with disabilities to strengthen advocacy strategy, organisational readiness, and engagement with government and other duty-bearers. This includes facilitating structured dialogue linked to disability-inclusive policy implementation and accountability in politically sensitive environments.

Consortium Leadership and Technical Advisory

Senior technical advisory and integration roles within multi-partner, donor-funded initiatives. This has included serving as a freelance expert representing Health Focus South Africa within a GIZ-funded initiative on inclusive digital skills and employment; leading the Technical Team for Disabled People South Africa during South Africa’s G20 Disability20 process; and acting as Lead Technical Advisor for Light for the World on an international inclusive education bid.

Public Administration and National Disability Policy Leadership

Senior leadership roles across local, provincial, and national government in South Africa, including serving as Chief Director within the national disability rights coordination machinery and Chief of Staff in a provincial Premier’s Office. This work includes serving as the lead drafter of South Africa’s national disability rights policy frameworks adopted in 1997 and 2015, and supporting their implementation and monitoring across government.

Organisational and workplace disability inclusion

Advisory, facilitation, and leadership development work within organisational and workplace contexts, supporting institutions and partners to engage disability inclusion inside broader DEIB, governance, and socio-economic transformation agendas.

This work includes facilitating and advising within corporate and institutional environments where disability inclusion is being engaged as a governance, leadership, and operational practice issue, rather than only a compliance or awareness concern. Engagements focus on strengthening leadership confidence, identifying organisational and systems barriers, and supporting the translation of DEIB commitments into practical, accountable workplace shifts.

This has included subcontracted facilitation within organisational DEIB initiatives; management and leadership engagements positioning disability inclusion across organisational culture, procurement and supplier considerations, communication practice, and accountability environments; and institutional capacity-strengthening work supporting disability-inclusive practice across recruitment, support, and programme delivery systems.

Dialogue, Facilitation, and Moderation

Facilitation of high-stakes dialogue between rights-holders and duty-bearers, persons with and without disabilities, and across sectors. This includes moderation of technical panels and multi-stakeholder forums where disability inclusion, governance, and accountability are central.

Media, Knowledge, and Narrative Change.

This has included the conceptualisation and strategic content lead of ACTIVATED, a national television series focused on disability rights, leadership, and self-representation. Additional work includes developing policy briefs, toolkits, training manuals, and learning resources to support disability-inclusive governance, advocacy, and programme implementation.

These examples reflect work undertaken across government, civil society, development programmes, and organisational leadership contexts. Most engagements involve working across several practice areas simultaneously and are shaped by context, relationships, and purpose.

For clarity on how collaborations are structured, please see How I Work.
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