Disability is not one fixed experience.
It changes with the conditions.
Let’s create the conditions for success together!
At The Disability Force, we believe in the talent and value disabled people bring to the world of work and business.
We also believe inclusion fails not because people don’t care, but because the systems around disability are often built without clarity.
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
Our coaching and training services help bring that clarity, whether you’re leading an organisation, running a business, or navigating work as an individual. We support you to create the conditions for sustainable success.
The Disability Force Framework
Our services help disabled professionals, leaders, teams, and HR practitioners see these contexts clearly, so they can work together to remove barriers, build trust, and create systems that adapt to people, not the other way around.
At the centre of the Framework is the Disability Force Quadrant Model. It acknowledges the four most common ways disability is understood in society through the Medical, Legal, Charity, and Social models. This helps people recognise how each can influence workplace conversations, decisions, policies, and processes - whether they are disabled professionals making sense of their own experience at work, managers navigating team dynamics, or HR balancing care with compliance.
Rather than treating disability as a problem to fix or a policy to enforce, our services offer a structured way to broaden understanding of the different forces and lived contexts involved and navigate any complexity together. This clarifies responsibilities, can minimise tensions between care and compliance, and helps organisations understand the unique forces at play for their staff, teams, and leaders so they can find solutions that meet the needs of everyone at work.
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:
Our group coaching is grounded in the same evidence-based methods and the Disability Force Framework. Each session is expertly facilitated to foster psychological safety, peer learning, and social capital, whilst also addressing real workplace challenges.
Alongside tailored group coaching for organisations and individuals, we also offer structured programmes focused on the real professional challenges disabled people face when building careers, leading teams, and growing businesses.
Accessible AI Adoption Programme
AI is changing how work gets done, but successful adoption is rarely about the technology itself. It is about how people think, decide, and apply it in their own work. At The Disability Force, we approach AI adoption as a human development process. Our work focuses on helping people strengthen their judgement, confidence, and the sustainable working practices needed to use AI intentionally and effectively.
The programme supports your employees to integrate AI into everyday workflows in ways that maintain human oversight, support good decision-making, and reduce unnecessary overwhelm. Particular attention is given to sustainable working practices, psychological safety, and ensuring adoption strategies acknowledge different working styles, energy needs, and access requirements.
Confident Decision Making for Inclusive Leaders
Designed to help disabled and inclusive leaders strengthen clarity, confidence, and decision-making when navigating the complexity of leading people, managing change, and creating inclusive working environments.
The programme supports participants to better understand their leadership instincts, decision pressures, and the balance between organisational needs and human realities.
Through structured coaching conversations and reflective exercises, participants develop practical ways to make thoughtful, confident decisions in complex situations where inclusion, performance, wellbeing, and organisational expectations intersect.
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.
Accessible AI Adoption Programme
AI is changing how work gets done, but successful adoption is rarely about the technology itself. It is about how people think, decide, and apply it in their own work, remaining the human in the loop. At The Disability Force, we approach AI adoption as a human capability development process. Our work focuses on helping people strengthen their judgement, confidence, and create sustainable working practices needed to use AI intentionally and effectively.
The six-session programme helps participants develop practical ways to use AI in their own work or business while maintaining control over how they use it. The focus is on reducing overwhelm, supporting clearer thinking, and finding sustainable ways to integrate AI that fit individual working styles, energy patterns, and real-life pressures.
Confident Decision Making for Disabled Entrepreneurs
This eight-session group coaching programme is designed to help disabled entrepreneurs and business owners strengthen their clarity, confidence, and decision-making while navigating the realities of building, scaling, or pivoting a business.
Participants deepen their understanding of how they make decisions, what influences their confidence, and how their strengths, motivations, and lived experience can become strategic advantages rather than barriers.
The programme uses structured group coaching conversations and reflective exercises to help participants develop practical ways to move forward when decisions feel complex, risky, or uncertain - whether that means starting something new, changing direction, or building upon what already exists.
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.