Make An Impact In

Disability Inclusivity

 

Optimize performance of a diverse and disability-inclusive workforce

Schedule keynotes and training of trainers to help people with disabilities succeed

 
 

What We Do.

 

We assist in your disability inclusion strategies and work collaboratively with businesses, employers, rehabilitation, and workforce development community to create successful employment opportunities and outcomes for individuals with disabilities.

 

Why Should You Work With Us?

We are committed to disability inclusion and offer trainer materials for business, educators and rehabilitation service organizations to create a diverse workforce that supports creativity, innovation and engagement. We can show you how to develop a business partnership with the rehabilitation community.

 

How Do We Do It?

We educate the rehabilitation community to provide quality employment services for individuals with disabilities and training for employers to build a disability inclusive culture.

 
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Business Community

 

For business, our team of experienced interactive trainers invokes the confidence to see the value of a diverse workforce and expand your work environment to be inclusive and accessible for all. We offer business leadership and disability inclusion training to expand and sustain a workforce that values the strengths of employees and their contributions to personal growth and business success.

Training | Speakers | Products

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Voc Rehab / Workforce Dev

 

For the rehabilitation and workforce development community, we offer training and resources to build effective relationships with the business community to improve employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities.

Windmills Training

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Education / Rehab

 

For education and the rehabilitation community, we provide training and materials on how to work with students and program participants on self-advocacy skills to further their education and achieve positive employment outcomes.

Without Limits Training

 

We provide access to nationally acclaimed speakers and products on how to provide interactive training for program participants and to inspire businesses to recruit, hire and retain people with disabilities.

What Next?

Access dynamic and entertaining speakers and interactive curriculum training to inspire a leadership commitment to accelerate employee excellence and apply proactive approaches for diversity and disability inclusion. 

 

What People Are Saying About Our Work:

  • “For more than 30 yrs. Richard and Milt have been at the forefront of changing attitudes towards individuals with disabilities in the workplace. Milt has dedicated much time and effort to the success of our NDEAM webinar event while directly and indirectly influencing 100's of business and vocational rehabilitation professionals.”

    Joseph Melillo | Helen Keller National Center

  • “Dr. Pimentel has been speaking to our mid to senior leaders since 2013 and has provided powerful insight on how to become better leaders. His ability to inspire leaders though his life story is amazing and he has made a true difference in how we develop our leaders. Richard has taught that we all have the ability to lead; it is how we respond that makes us leaders. Richard's story is one where we can all relate and learn from. Having him on our program has become a cornerstone in the development of our people.”

    Dr. James Ward | US Navy

  • “The MWA training is so impactful to how we view disabilities as an organization and as individuals. Several employees went on to attend the Windmills Train the Trainer program so we can continue to deliver the training to our associates. The Windmills program is a key contributor towards helping my organization achieve their Disability, Equity, and Inclusion index. Milt and Richard’s years of knowledge and experience is so impressive. They bring real life experience to each of the training modules that is relatable to the audience. Their training and messages are delivered with passion, humor, and empathy.”

    Laura Steigerwaldt

  • “Participated in Windmills training in the 80's and have used the modules and strategies with several business partners, including public sector entities. The approach to helping people think through their biases and misperceptions about disabilities is powerful, including how it impacts decision making in the workplace. A great strategy for addressing attitudinal barriers. The team has a lot of experience supporting Windmills training and train the trainer sessions in-person or virtually, helping us to deliver sessions to VR staff across the country.”

    Kathy West-Evans | Director of Business Relations

  • “MWA has provided a framework from which I can engage customers in effecting change in the realm of personal empowerment and from which I can effectively engage the workforce in disability inclusion. MWA is where passion and expertise meet.”

    Heidi Dirkse-Graw | Workforce Trainer/Consultant

 
 
 

Windmills.

 

Learn how to empower employment professionals and businesses to value every individual and change perceptions of ability in our highly interactive disability inclusion training, Windmills.  

Without Limits.

 

Explore tools for self-advocacy, value and worth, in Without Limits, a program for high school aged and post-secondary students with disabilities transitioning to work.

 
 

Meet The Speakers

 

Dr. Richard Pimentel

Keynote Inspirational Speaker, Author, Life story “Music Within”

Anita Lee Wright

Inspirational speaker & Disability Inclusion business leader

Jessica Lopez

Disability Activist, Facilitator, Consultant

Milt Wright

Corporate & Motivational Training, Consulting, Author

Janae Miller

Windmills Trainer and Inspirational Speaker

Jerry Sherk

Former NFL All-Pro Lineman, Trainer/Designer/Writer/Mentoring

Denise Bissonnette

Internationally Acclaimed Speaker, Trainer, & Author

Malia Wright-Merer

Windmills Trainer, Author, Trauma Informed Leadership Coach

 Noteworthy Companies Worked With:

List of company logos: Cigna, AT&T, Charles Schwab, Motorola, Nabisco, USAA, MN Employment and Economic Development, NASWA, CSAVR, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, State of LA, DOR, GVRA, Naval Air Systems Command

 Check Out Our Products.

Milt Wright & Associates designs various books and interactive curricula for working with people with disabilities. Check out all of our products to purchase here.

 
 

 Resources

 
 
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 About Us

Milt Wright & Associates, Inc. strives to help you create a diverse disability inclusive workforce of individuals who utilize and develop their skills and abilities to be contributing members of our society. It is our goal to create excellent programs and training to help people attain self-sufficiency and personal satisfaction in a changing workforce. Toward this goal, we further extend our dedicated service to offer tools and resources to the business community that improve productivity and reduce costs.

Milt Wright and Associates, Inc. (MWA) founded in 1983 has been an active change agent in disability inclusion as a training and consulting firm. As a contributor to the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) on employment initiatives, we aligned with the Society for Human Resource Managers to co-author the ADA resources and training throughout the country.

MWA has been agile throughout the years offering training, product and services to address the changing environment for equity and diversity in the workplace for businesses and people with disabilities.

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With a commitment to disability inclusion, MWA has trained and consulted businesses and government entities on leadership culture change and integration focused on the value of hiring and retention of people with disabilities, manager and supervisor training, ADA compliance and workers compensation cost containment strategies. See a list of the notable customers we have worked with.

With a dedication to align collaborative services with vocational rehabilitation and workforce development organizations, MWA provides the resources and training for trainers to 1. Offer services on client advocacy skill development and 2. Build partnerships with businesses to reinforce equitable opportunities for a diverse workforce and an infrastructure to support performance excellence. 

 
 
 

What People Are Saying Richard Pimentel’s life story, “Music Within”

 

"It's the first movie about the ADA movement, our civil rights movement," says former U.S. representative Tony Coelho, D-Calif., who authored the civil rights law that passed in 1990 and became effective in 1992 to ban discrimination based on disability.

"Rich was one of those people who was active and engaged, and his story is like a lot of others," says Coelho. "The movie isn't a story about Rich so much as Rich symbolizes hundreds of others like him who helped get the ADA adopted."

Contact us.

Let’s connect!

Phone: (818) 307-0251