AXSChat Podcast
AXSChat Podcast
Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh, Neil Milliken
If Inclusion Depends On Your Boss, Is It Inclusion
27 minutes Posted Aug 19, 2026 at 11:00 am.
Welcome And Host Update
Meet Deb Daggett And Access Needs
From ADA Advocacy To Corporate D&I
What Improved And What Stayed Slow
Building A Better Accommodations System
Where HR Creates Barriers
Training Managers To Do It Right
The Rule Of 11 Management Lesson
AI As The Next Assistive Breakthrough
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A clunky accommodations process can undo years of diversity work in a single bad moment. Neil Milliken sits down with disability inclusion consultant Deb Dagit to get specific about what actually helps employees with disabilities thrive at work and what quietly blocks them, even inside well-meaning companies. Deb shares her lived experience with apparent and non-apparent disabilities, and the practical realities of mobility devices, hearing aids, and a service dog, not as inspiration but as e...