Join Inclusive Workplaces Week Scotland to explore free webinars, practical resources and expert support that can help your organisation take meaningful steps towards becoming a more inclusive workplace.
Inclusive Workplaces Week Scotland: 16th to 20th November 2026
A week of online learning to help employers discover the often free services and support available to recruit and retain disabled talent.
Packed with free online Information Sessions and bitesize Training for employers, which includes DuoDay, a day to promote equal employment opportunities and highlight the positive contributions disabled people make at work.
Discover simple steps to make your workplace more inclusive. Join employers across Scotland for Inclusive Workplaces Week Scotland. Registration opens in October 2026.
We’ve got some interesting and engaging sessions lined up already:
- Mentally Healthy Workplaces
- Positive Workplace Conversations
- Inclusive Recruitment and Selection in Practice
- Practical Steps to Fair Work through Supported Employment
- Men’s Mental Health
- AI Adoption
- New Employer Engagement Programme
See the full programme below…
Inclusive Workplaces Week 2026 Programme of Webinars
Explore our programme and plan your week! Registration will open later in October.
Workplace Wellbeing: Making It Real
Lesley Reid, SUSE
This session explores what a genuinely mentally healthy workplace looks like in everyday practice. We’ll look at the small behaviours, simple adjustments, and organisational habits that make the biggest difference to staff wellbeing. The focus is firmly on action rather than theory, offering practical tools that any workplace can adopt to build a supportive, compassionate culture. Participants will leave with clear, realistic steps they can use to make wellbeing part of daily working life and help colleagues feel valued, understood, and able to thrive.
Monday 16th November 1-2pm
Practical Steps to Fair Work through Supported Employment
Colette Ormiston, SUSE
Discover how Supported Employment helps businesses deliver on Fair Work principles – effective voice, opportunity, security, respect and fulfilment. In this one-hour session, we’ll show how inclusive hiring can:
- Open access to a skilled, motivated talent pool
- Strengthen workplace culture and retention
- Support social responsibility and productivity goals.
Practical steps and available support will be covered.
Tuesday 17th November 10-11am
Visibility Scotland’s Employer Engagement Programme: Seeing Potential: Creating Accessible and Inclusive Workplaces
Laura Walker and August Wright, Visibility Scotland
Discover how understanding employment rights and embracing inclusive practices can help create a positive workplace environment. This 30-minute session will provide practical tips and actionable steps to improve accessibility, strengthen workplace culture, and support a diverse and productive workforce.
Tuesday 17th November 11am – 12pm
Inclusive Work Experience and the Relationships Behind It – Developing the Young Workforce’s GROW Programme
Danny Ansell, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce / DYW
Parvinder Sandhu, University of Strathclyde
Meaningful work experience depends on the relationships between young people, employers, schools and the organisations bringing them together. Combining Pav Sandhu’s research on relationship development with practical learning from GROW (Glasgow Regional Opportunities for Work), this session will explore how trust, preparation and ongoing engagement shape young people’s workplace experiences. We will share examples from GROW’s workplace visits and placements, discuss barriers to participation, and consider what employers and delivery partners can do to create experiences that build confidence, broaden aspirations and support young people’s next steps.
Tuesday 16th November 1-2pm
What I’ve Learned About AI Adoption
Eleonora Vanello, Peer Works at Prosper
Since 2023, Peer Works has hosted AI‑focused events for SMEs, giving Eleonora the opportunity to learn first‑hand from businesses experimenting with AI tools.
In this interactive session, Eleonora will share her insights into how organisations across Scotland are adopting AI. She will present practical models, tips, and case studies to help you avoid common pitfalls and take practical steps to ensure AI is used in ways that are fair, accessible and inclusive for everyone when considering AI adoption within your organisation. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and take part in practical activities.
Wednesday 18th November 10-11am
Inclusive Recruitment and Selection in Practice
Ellis Green and Kelly Forrest, Values Into Action Scotland
This 30-minute webinar will offer practical guidance for employers of all sizes and sectors on creating a more inclusive recruitment and selection process for disabled candidates. It will explore reasonable adjustments at interview stage and share practical steps employers can take to give candidates a fair opportunity to demonstrate their skills and experience. Participants will leave with clear top tips they can apply in their own workplace.
This session is aimed at those involved in the recruitment of staff at any level.
Wednesday 18th November 1-1.30pm and Friday 20th November 10-10.30am
Men’s Mental Health: Silence, Stigma and Stereotypes
Gary Macdonald, Macdonald Training
A relaxed, discussion-based workshop exploring why men can sometimes find it difficult to talk about mental health. We’ll look at the impact of silence, stigma and stereotypes, challenge some of the traditional messages around masculinity, and explore practical ways we can encourage men to talk, listen and support one another.
No pressure, no judgement and no expectation to share personal experiences – just an open conversation about how we can make it easier for men to talk about mental health.
Thursday 19th November 10-11am
Positive Workplace Conversations
Lorna Prince and Joy Lewis, Changing the Chemistry
Jonathan Aitken, SUSE
An introduction on how to have honest, strengths‑based conversations that build trust, confidence and psychological safety.
Thursday 19th November 11am-12pm
One Message, Many Audiences: Creating Inclusive Workplace Communications
Thiago Carmo, Passion4Social and Disability Equality Scotland
Every organisation, no matter their background, sends messages on a daily basis: office moves, policy changes, events, service updates, training, and opportunities for advancement. However, sending out the same message across all of your channels and platforms will not work equally well for everyone.
In this practical webinar, we will take tools of an everyday workplace and demonstrate how they change depending on the audience, communication channel and people’s access needs. We will show how accessible communication is about making good communication choices from the very beginning, not creating separate versions for disabled colleagues only. Participants will leave with practical techniques they can apply immediately when creating emails, social media, written/verbal presentations, websites and printed materials.
Thursday 19th November 1-2pm
Building Dementia-Inclusive Workplaces: Insights from the Working With Dementia Network Plus
Dr Laura Lebec and Dr Rachel McHendry, University of West of Scotland
Dementia is an increasingly important workplace issue, affecting both employees living with dementia and those balancing work with caring responsibilities. This session shares insights from the Working With Dementia Network Plus; drawing on emerging research we will discuss how organisations can create more inclusive workplaces. Attendees will leave with ideas on how to better support employees affected by dementia and build a more inclusive workplace culture.
Thursday 19th November 2-3pm
Supporting Disabled People Into and Within Work
Brian Clarke, Andrew MacCallum and Aoife Burke, Into Work
This session will explore how employers can benefit from working with Supported Employment services to support disabled people into and within the workplace. We will explain how services work and the in-work support offer, including how we can help employees and employers overcome barriers for sustainable employment. We will then introduce our disability awareness training offer, highlighting how this can help employers and their teams better understand disability, inclusion and reasonable adjustments. We’ll also highlight a recent work placement case study setup by Into Work, demonstrating how placements can work in practice and benefit both parties. The final 15 minutes will provide an opportunity for questions.
Friday 20th November, 1-2pm
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