Kate Nash Associates

"Disabled Employee Networks are integral to an organisation achieving disability confidence. They enable the sharing of best practice. They empower disabled staff enabling them to air and share views."

"Networks enable knowledge, expertise and goodwill to flow more freely, inside and outside of what we previously considered 'boundaries'. Organisations that understand this will tap into the vast potential that exists out there and create significant competitive advantage."

"Networks need to have a strong purpose and a good explanation about how they can add value to other projects – that is the only way of getting board support and organisational buy-in."

"We aim to create an environment within which all of our people can flourish. The Network supports this in a practical way, by enabling individuals to share experiences, and identify solutions."

"Treating our people as individuals is vital to the success of our diversity and business strategy. To learn from disabled people, business must listen, and the creation of disabled staff networks is a highly effective way to do so."

"It is key to our business success that employees are involved and engaged with our organization, which gives value back to us and allow us to learn and develop. Equally networking across sectors is also critical, allowing us to share success and learnings."

"Members of our network group are not only our colleagues but our customers as well. They advise us on the service that customers with disabilities value and have helped us to design our new global disability training, Fly-ability. "

"Networks are just simply a great idea to roll out the message that we take our disabled talent very seriously indeed."

"The purpose of the network is to engage with all our employees and show they are valued, whilst at the same time empowering them through the network to make a significant contribution to how the business operates."

"Valuing diversity increases employee engagement, commitment and loyalty, positively impacting on our business. Disabled Employee Networks add enormous value to engaging our employees"