We know that checklists and compliance trainings can’t capture the living, evolving needs of real people.
Our sessions go beyond surface-level awareness to help participants understand how accessibility, inclusion, and belonging show up in everyday decisions — from communication to leadership to culture design.

Through storytelling, dialogue, and evidence-based frameworks, we blend education with empowerment:

Intersectionality: Recognizing how overlapping identities shape experiences of access and inclusion.

Universal Design: Teaching flexible systems that support everyone, not just those who ask for accommodations.

Disability Justice: Grounding our approach in community, collective care, and the voices of those most impacted.

Every keynote and workshop leaves participants with actionable strategies, reflection prompts, and shared language to continue the work long after the session ends.

Keynotes
Inspire and energize at scale. Perfect for conferences and company-wide events.
(45–60 minutes, no slides required.)
Includes: pre-session consultation and post-event follow-up.

Workshops
Hands-on, interactive sessions designed to help your team build inclusive habits and systems.
(60–90 minutes, with slides and exercises.)
Includes: pre-session consultation, tailored slide deck and handouts, and post-session debrief.

Fireside Chat or Small-Group Sessions
Casual, discussion-based learning designed for Employee Resource Groups, manager cohorts, or smaller teams.
(60 minutes, no slides required)

Accessibility in Pricing:
Minority-owned and nonprofit organizations receive 20% off all speaking rates.

Neurodiversity & Disability 101: Building a foundational understanding of accessibility, language, and lived experience.

Intersectionality & Inclusion: Understanding how overlapping identities shape experiences at work.

Sharing and Honoring Stories: Tools and frameworks to navigate feedback, communication, and support with confidence.

Diversity and Belonging in Precolonial Societies: Exploring historical perspectives from precolonial Africa and Indigenous tribes in North America, examining how neurodivergent, queer, and other marginalized identities were understood, included, and valued before colonial disruption.

All of our speaking engagements are led by Kris Joy (they/he) : educator, consultant, and founder of Advocates Empowered.

Kris’s approach blends warmth, depth, and humor with an ability to make complex topics accessible and deeply human. Their lived experience as a disabled, neurodivergent, and trans person who grew up in Kenya shapes every conversation, inviting audiences into learning with empathy and openness.

Highlights of Kris’s Experience:

Delivered their college graduation speech to an audience of over 10,000 people.

Served as a keynote speaker at national and international conferences on disability inclusion and neurodiversity.

Brings over seven years of teaching and facilitation experience, from classrooms to corporate boardrooms.

Led an international training on inclusive education practices for educators and caregivers at a children’s center in Nairobi.

Featured in Marquis Who’s Who for their contributions to accessibility and advocacy.