Disability is not one fixed experience.
It changes with the conditions.
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, whether you’re leading an organisation, running a business, or navigating work as an individual. We support you to shape conditions that deliver the best and most sustainable outcomes.
Let’s create the conditions for success together!
Disability can be many things. It can be:
Positive - a source of insight, creativity, and innovation.
Neutral - simply a part of life without relevance in a particular setting or situation.
Negative - when barriers, attitudes, or rigid systems make participation harder than it needs to be
The Disability Force Framework
Our unique framework helps disabled people, leaders, teams, and HR professionals see these contexts clearly, so they can remove barriers, build trust, and create systems that adapt to people, not the other way around.
It maps the four dominant ways disability is understood in society — the Medical, Legal, Charity, and Social models — and helps you recognise how each one shapes workplace decisions, policies, performance conversations, and adjustment processes.
It provides clarity for disabled professionals making sense of their own experience at work, for managers navigating team dynamics, and for HR balancing compliance with culture.
Rather than treating disability as a problem to fix or a policy to enforce, the Framework offers a structured way to navigate complexity together. It clarifies responsibilities, reduces tension between care and compliance, and helps organisations understand the forces shaping disability at work, so they can move from uncertainty to informed, decisive action.
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 has 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
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 can help your organisation close that gap to the benefit of your people and your business.
What we offer:
Disability Coaching:
Creates a confidential, evidence-based space for leaders, managers, and disabled professionals to explore challenges, surface blind spots, and develop practical strategies for success.
Grounded in the Social Model of Disability and The Disability Force Framework, our 1:1 coaching combines lived experience with professional training from the University of Cambridge to deliver clarity, confidence, and sustainable results.
Inclusive Leadership Coaching:
Builds clarity and confidence in managers and executives to support disabled colleagues more effectively. This coaching develops leadership capability, empathy, and decision-making skills that strengthen team dynamics and drive cultural inclusion.
Group Coaching:
Provides shared insight, accountability, and momentum. This helps teams, networks, and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) build connection, confidence, and collaboration.
Each session is expertly facilitated to foster psychological safety and peer learning while addressing real workplace challenges. It also bridges the gap between training and real-world practice, helping your people embed new learning, sustain inclusion efforts, and turn good intentions into everyday action.
Our group coaching is grounded in the same evidence-based methods as our 1:1 coaching and draws on Cambridge training and the Disability Force Framework.
Disability Force Training:
Lunch & Learn (1 Hour)
A focused introduction to the Social Model of Disability and the Disability Force Framework. This session builds disability literacy, clarifies organisational responsibility, and strengthens inclusive practice in a concise, accessible format. Ideal for raising awareness and creating a shared starting point across teams.
Interactive Workshops (3 Hours)
A deeper, applied session designed to explore real workplace scenarios, performance conversations, and adjustment processes. Participants gain practical tools to navigate complexity with clarity and confidence, embedding inclusive thinking into everyday decisions.
Full Day Events
In-depth sessions that explore workplace practices, leadership behaviours, team dynamics, and organisational culture in a structured and practical way. These events create space for honest discussion, shared understanding, and clearer decision-making around disability and inclusion.
We collaborate with trusted specialist associates to design tailored programmes that reflect your specific context. Full-day events can include multiple speakers, panel discussions, and facilitated group work to encourage dialogue, surface complexity, and identify realistic next steps.
What changes for organisations:
Barriers become visible and removable.
Adjustments become smoother and faster.
Leaders and employees gain confidence to act.
Trust grows, leading to better engagement, retention, and innovation.
For Individuals, Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners
Are you a disabled professional, entrepreneur, small or micro business owner? We can help you too!
You might be building a career, growing your business, or navigating work with a long-term condition. You might be aspiring towards a new goal, be working through a challenge, or pivoting into something completely different.
What we offer:
1:1 Coaching:
Provides a dedicated, evidence-based space to explore your goals, challenges, and opportunities in a way that fits your pace, energy, and ambitions. Our 1:1 coaching helps you build confidence, clarity, and resilience through personalised strategies that honour your lived experience and working style.
Grounded in the Social Model of Disability and our Disability Force Framework, it’s personalised, flexible, and designed to give you the clarity, confidence, and practical tools to move forward on your own terms. Our work is informed by training from the University of Cambridge, and each session empowers you to uncover your own best answers and create practical strategies that will work for you, not just during coaching, but long after it ends too.
Group Coaching:
Offers the same depth and quality of coaching within a supportive, small-group setting. Designed for disabled professionals and entrepreneurs, these programmes bring peers together to share insight, learn collaboratively, and sustain motivation.
Group coaching is a powerful antidote to isolation; it creates belonging, builds confidence, and strengthens accountability. Participants gain new perspectives, tools, and the encouragement to take consistent action. This approach uses the same evidence-based coaching principles as our 1:1 work, with the added benefit of collective wisdom and community connection.
What changes for individuals and entrepreneurs:
Clarity on your next steps for your career or business
Confidence to act on your goals, challenges, or pivots
A stronger sense of connection and belonging for those working in groups
Why Us?
Hi, I’m Michelle Scicluna, Founder and Coach.
I created the Disability Force Framework because non-medicalised, disability-informed professional support is often misunderstood or overlooked.
Knowing what needs to change and how to make that change is more effective when it can be personalised to your specific circumstances. That is why I strongly believe in non-directive coaching, grounded in psychological and behavioural science and applied to disability support and inclusive strategy.
My coaching certification comes from the University of Cambridge because I know you deserve a high-quality coaching and training service.
The Disability Force is also influenced by my own lived experience; an acquired disability in my late 20s, surviving Stage 3 cancer in my mid-30s, and more recently being diagnosed as neurodivergent in my early 40s.
My work combines professional rigour with personal understanding, helping clients cut through outdated assumptions and build workplaces and businesses where difference is valued and results are achieved together.
Curious about the giraffes?
I chose giraffes to symbolise disabled people because 80% of disabilities are invisible, and every giraffe coat has a unique pattern, much like human fingerprints. We explain this metaphor more fully with data and examples later on our site.