Unified Leadership
Unified Leadership empowers individuals and organizations to challenge limitations, shift mindsets, and take practical actions that create inclusive workplaces and communities where people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are fully valued and engaged.
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Unified Leadership helps individuals and organizations foster true inclusion for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Through a two-part educational series, participants gain understanding, reflect, and take practical actions to shift mindsets, reduce stigma, and create workplaces and communities where all voices are valued and respected.
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From Workshop to Workforce
In 2019, following the Unified Leadership launch in Dublin, the ADIDAS Latin America regional office invited Special Olympics to speak with one of their DEI employee resource groups about intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
United Set to Hire More Special Olympics Athletes as Customer Service Ambassadors
[Chicago, Il - July 18, 2025] United announced today that it will expand the industry’s only Special Olympics Service Ambassador (SOSA) program to the airline’s hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Newark.
Many Special Olympics athlete leaders are successful media influencers, teammates, coaches and community activists. This becomes possible when people around them welcome, value and support their determination, effort and skills. Unfortunately, many people with intellectual disabilities are unable to achieve their leadership potential because of the attitudes, behaviors and low expectations of people without disabilities.
The Unified Leadership approach helps people without disabilities to turn from unconscious bias to conscious inclusion, changing their attitudes and behaviors to create meaningful inclusion in their teams, organizations, families and communities.
If you are a company or organization leader looking to partner with us and receive Unified Leadership training, please email Daniel Orzechowski.
The Unified Leadership approach helps people without disabilities to turn from unconscious bias to conscious inclusion, changing their attitudes and behaviors to create meaningful inclusion in their teams, organizations, families and communities.
If you are a company or organization leader looking to partner with us and receive Unified Leadership training, please email Daniel Orzechowski.
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