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Specialist Disability and Inclusive Leadership Support

At The Disability Force, we believe inclusion fails not because people don’t care, but because the systems around disability are often built without clarity. Our coaching and training services bring that clarity.

We support you to create inclusive ways of working so everyone can perform at their best and your business can thrive.

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Why The Disability Force

Disability is not one fixed experience.

It can be positive; a source of insight, creativity, and resilience. It can also be neutral; simply a part of life without relevance to a particular setting or situation. It can also be negative; when barriers, attitudes, or rigid systems make participation harder than it needs to be.

What it always is, is contextual.
The Disability Force framework helps leaders and professionals see these contexts clearly, so they can remove barriers, build trust, and create systems that adapt to people, not the other way around.

Why It Matters:

The Reality of Work and Health

Health challenges are a natural part of the human experience. They can become part of any career, leadership, or entrepreneurial journey at any time. For some, they are short-term hurdles. For others, they are long-term conditions to be managed alongside working life.

  • 1 in 4 working-age adults have a disability or long-term health condition

  • 80% of disabilities are acquired during working age

  • 1 in 2 people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, and over a third of cases are diagnosed when people are of working age

We use Giraffes as our chosen metaphor to represent disabled people in the workplace, we share why later in our website.

For Leaders, HR, and Organisations

Your workplace already has disabled colleagues, whether you know it or not. Disclosure rates in the UK are typically only 4–10%, despite almost 1 in 4 working-age adults being disabled. That gap isn’t just about disclosure numbers, it’s about trust. We help organisation close that gap.

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What we offer

  • Disability Coaching: Creates a safe and structured space for leaders, managers, or disabled professionals to explore context, surface blind spots, and find practical ways forward. Grounded in the Disability Force framework, it connects lived experience with systemic realities to enable clarity and confident action.

  • Inclusive Leadership Coaching: building clarity and confidence in managers and executives to support disabled people in their teams.

  • Group Coaching: shared insight and momentum can increase feelings of belonging and safety, and drive systemic change.

  • Training and Consultancy: practical support to shift processes, policies, and culture across the entire organisation.

What changes:

  • Barriers become visible and removable.

  • Adjustments become smoother and faster.

  • Leaders and employees gain confidence to act.

  • Trust grows, and with it engagement, retention, and innovation.

For Individuals, Entrepreneurs, and Small Business Owners

Are you a disabled professional, entrepreneur, or a small or micro business owner?

Whether you’re building a career, growing a business, or navigating work with a long-term condition, we can support you. You might be aiming for a new goal, working through a challenge, or even pivoting into something completely different.

Our 1:1 and group coaching programmes adapt to your circumstances, so you get support that fits your needs and works in real life.

Why Us?

Hi, I’m Michelle Scicluna, Founder and Coach at The Disability Force.

The Disability Force was inspired by my own lived experience of acquired disability, late-diagnosed neurodivergence, and as a Stage 3 cancer survivor.

When I realised that non-medicalised, specialist, disability-informed support in the workplace was rarely recognised for its impact, I retrained as a coach with the University of Cambridge.

Since then, I’ve combined professional rigour with personal understanding, helping clients cut through outdated assumptions and build workplaces, and businesses, where difference is valued.

Michelle Scicluna, smiling with blonde curly hair, fringe, and clear geometric glasses. Wearing an orange giraffe-pattern blazer and indigo high-waisted jeans. Photo by Carla Watkins.

Portrait of Michelle Scicluna by Carla Watkins

Credentials at a glance:

  • Certificate in Coaching, University of Cambridge

  • Acceptance & Commitment Coaching training with Dr Russ Harris & Contextual Consulting

  • Group Coaching training with Ana Paula Nacif

  • Neurodiversity in Coaching training with Animas