DisAbility at work & Women who traded corporate for high vis
Submission deadline: 20 June 2025
First Publish Dates: 4-8 August 2025
Our campaign this month centres around individuals with lived experience of disability navigating the workplace and thriving. Whether living with a chronic illness, physical disability, mental health condition or neurodivergence, this campaign aims to flip the script on what it means to be supported and excel at work. As a bonus, we’re also seeking stories from women who traded in their corporate career to pursue a role in construction or a trade.
About the disability at work campaign
We’re asking eligible Endorsed Employers to contribute to an article featuring real-world testimonials from individuals who have lived experience of navigating disability in the workplace. ‘Disability’ can mean many things to different people, so we’re keen to hear from a variety of individuals; whether living with chronic illness, a physical disability, mental health condition or neurodivergence. The purpose of this campaign is to empower others to see these experiences as something to be celebrated and supported in our workplaces.
Content to submit
Supply the testimonial from one individual within your organization that answers the questions below.
- Can you share your experience of navigating the workplace with a disability and how your employer has supported you?
- What accommodations or adjustments have been most helpful in enabling you to thrive in your role?
- What’s one common misconception about having a disability in the workplace that you’d like to challenge, and how has your experience defied it?
Word limit: maximum 300 words in total.
Potential article headlines
(These are only examples and will depend on the actual content submitted)
- Redefining ability: Stories of success and inclusion at work
- DisAbility at work: Celebrating talent, resilience, and support
- Beyond accommodations: How inclusive workplaces empower people with disabilities
BONUS opportunity: Trading up: Meet the women who swapped corporate for high vis
As a bonus content opportunity this month, we’re inviting women who swapped a corporate career for a role in construction or trades (in any capacity) to share their experiences and motivations for making the shift.
The questions to answer
Please supply one testimonial from a woman responding to the below.
- What motivated you to transition from a corporate role to a career in a high-vis industry, and how has the experience been so far?
- What skills or perspectives from your corporate background have been most valuable in your new role?
- What has been the most surprising or rewarding part of swapping your corporate career for a high-vis role?
Word limit: Maximum 250 words in total.
Potential article headlines
(These are only examples and will depend on the actual content submitted).
- From suits to steel caps: Women thriving in high-vis roles
- From boardrooms to worksites: Women finding new purpose in high-vis roles
- Steel caps and success: How women are breaking ground in new careers
To submit your organization’s advocacy campaign contribution, complete the form below.
Please make sure your submission includes the name, pronouns, role title, and a picture of any person(s) we can attribute the answer to in the article.
FAQs
What type of images do you need?
Please ensure any headshot photos are high resolution (minimum 1MB), ideally taken against light and neutral backgrounds, with the individual’s face visible and not blurry, to ensure we can use them in the campaign.
Ensure to include a description of all images in the image file name, including the name, role title and pronouns of the pictured people.
How will the advocacy campaign content be shared?
The advocacy campaign content may be curated into any number of formats, including long-form articles, shorter carousel-style stories, videos, or infographics. Each content piece will then be shared across a variety of marketing platforms including our website, social media channels and newsletters. Where relevant we will also broadcast through our partner network and syndicate affiliations.
Will all my content be included?
Due to the high volume and variety of submissions for each focus area, we are unable to include every word of every supplied Endorsed Employers’ content. We will carefully adapt, edit, and curate the content to meet the needs of your organization, but also the needs of our audiences, while always maintaining the veracity of what has been supplied.
We rely on all our Endorsed Employers to provide content relevant to the topic details — the more relevant the content provided, the more space it will be given in any individual feature. Our team will be in touch if we need further clarification on your submission.
I need to speak to someone, who should I contact?
Please reach out to your DEI Account Manager, or campaigns@work180.co if you have further questions.
How will I know when a campaign is live?
Once the main campaign content piece is published, you will be provided with the links.
Please feel free to share these across your own channels. If there are specific hashtags that we are using for the campaign, we will provide these to you to utilize when sharing across your own social media platforms.
Will I get to view the campaign before it goes live?
No. The time between drafting, building the content, and publishing is very tight. This along with the number of stakeholders involved in each campaign, and the number of campaign content pieces a single submission may be involved in, it simply isn’t fair or feasible to allow any one client to approve the content before it’s published. We ask that clients get all the content they submit to be approved prior to submitting.