Jenny Lay-Flurrie

Honored to be featured on Forbes’ 2023 list which highlights 50 leaders, executives, thinkers and teams rethinking the world of work at a time when everything—from the job market’s future to AI’s impact to a college degree’s value—feels more uncertain than ever. The future of work, is accessible!

Honoured to receive the John D. Kemp Leadership Award in recognition of work to grow disability employment. John Kemp is disability rights leader who founded American Association of People with Disabilities and one of my personal heroes. To receive an award in his name is an incredible honour.

Incredibly honoured to be the 2017 recipient of the Ceiling Breakthrough Award from NAD. Award recognizes an individual that has broken through ceilings, in my instance being the first individual (that NAD is aware of) with deafness in C suite position in Fortune 500 company. Very humbled to receive it in a room full of deaf ‘royalty’ and personal hero’s. Also signifies the needs to do more to advance talent with disabilities including deafness up the ranks in corporates in USA and beyond.

Fast Company is excited to announce the addition of 170 new members to the Most Creative People in Business, an exclusive group of influencers in business from across the economy and around the globe.
As the chief accessibility officer at Microsoft, Jenny Lay-Flurrie has helped create a hiring program through which the company identifies and trains people with autism. She ran the first pilot program in 2015 and has since scaled it, holding it four times a year. Lay-Flurrie, who is deaf, has… Show more

Fast Company is excited to announce the addition of 170 new members to the Most Creative People in Business, an exclusive group of influencers in business from across the economy and around the globe.
As the chief accessibility officer at Microsoft, Jenny Lay-Flurrie has helped create a hiring program through which the company identifies and trains people with autism. She ran the first pilot program in 2015 and has since scaled it, holding it four times a year. Lay-Flurrie, who is deaf, has also chaired Microsoft’s Disability Employee Resource Group, and in 2014 was named a “Champion of Change” by the White House for her work. In announcing her appointment as chief accessibility officer in early 2016, Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith credited Lay-Flurrie with creating a culture of change at the company. Before joining Microsoft’s London office in 2005, Lay-Flurrie worked for T-Mobile and Energis in the U.K.
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Hugely honoured to be nominated and selected by the White House as a 'Champion of Change' for Disability Employment. Recognised for work at Microsoft to make workplaces more accessible and to create employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Humbled to join 9 other (amazing) champions at the White House to discuss disability employment in October 2014.

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Hugely honoured to be nominated and selected by the White House as a 'Champion of Change' for Disability Employment. Recognised for work at Microsoft to make workplaces more accessible and to create employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Humbled to join 9 other (amazing) champions at the White House to discuss disability employment in October 2014.

Link to all White House Disability Employment Champions of Change: http://www.whitehouse.gov/champions/disability-employment-champions-of-change
Jenny Lay-Flurrie Blog: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/10/20/disability-my-strength
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