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About Us - Meet
The Team
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Eileen, founder of
Adept, has been developing people for over twenty years. Her background
includes organisational development, management and staff development, change
management and counselling.
For the past 6 years, she has specialised in increasing the inclusion of disabled
people in service and employment. Using her own experience of disability, she
delivers training and consultancy to private, public and voluntary
organisations.
Her enthusiasm and passion for this subject engages people at all levels, and
encourages them to learn new habits of thinking and belief. She is able to
lecture on the detail of the Disability Discrimination Act as well as
facilitate free and open discussion on very sensitive and personal issues.
Mike OSullivan
Mike has been in
the field of people development for over twenty years. Since working in Adept,
he has made good use of his corporate background in IBM which gave him a creative,
quality-minded and professional approach to business. He currently facilitates
large community training projects where he has put in place a quality process
to audit, train and advise service providers on disability equality, the DDA
and implementing change.
Mike uses his
one-to-one coaching and mentoring skills to support up and coming disability
equality trainers and auditors to achieve a high standard of service and
delivery.
Danny is a
disability equality auditor who specialises in access issues, independent
living (particularly through direct payments), general Disability Equality and
the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. He facilitates Adepts social inclusion
and DDA programmes in the London Boroughs.
In all spheres of
society he actively promotes the theory and practice of the Social Model of
Disability, and for over four years he led and participated in the Sutton
Alliance of Disabled People.
Danny gained his
degree in finance, and is now studying a Masters Degree in Disability Studies
at Leeds University. He has been employed in the public, private and voluntary
sectors, including Finance Manager of a national charity.
Doctor Stuart
began his career as a social historian with a particular interest in popular
culture and society. After a doctorate at School of African and Asian Studies,
University of London, he went to St Antony's College, Oxford University in
1990. While there he worked as a researcher and published work on the social
history of local Caribbean cricket teams in Britain. It was as a social policy
researcher at the University of York and subsequently, the University Surrey;
Roehampton that Dr. Stuart began to take an active interest in disabled people,
specifically from Britain’s minority communities. His published work on
'race' and disability has greatly influenced thinking on this subject. Since
2002, he has left the academic world and is now a full time disability and
'race' consultant and trainer.
Dr. Stuart
delivers training & consultancy to: senior and front line management, staff,
personnel professionals and trainers at all levels in both the statutory and
voluntary sector. He has also delivered ‘race’ equality training to
universities, Race Equality Councils and Housing associations.
Dr. Stuart is
still involved in research and wrote the report on the behalf of Greater London
Action on Disability (GLAD) for OPM/Compass on Disabled Peoples' response to
the Government’s future strategy of the Voluntary and Community Sector
Infrastructure. He is currently involved in creating a Good Practice Guide on
disability access to public buildings jointly with GLAD and the Greater London
Authority.
Ruth Malkin
Ruth is a
creative access consultant and equality trainer. Specialising in Disability
Arts, she has advised the Arts Council of England, Yorkshire Arts and Shape UK
on access and inclusion issues, and has advised many arts venues on access and
equality. She is a fully qualified trainer of adults, with many years’
experience of working in the community, with disabled and non-disabled people,
as well as management training experience.
As part of her advanced teaching qualification she developed a course
called ‘Access into Action’ which is a practical approach to the
Social Model of Disability. She is currently mentoring access auditors in a
large community project in Adult Community Learning in Nottingham.
Ruth has an MA in writing from Sheffield Hallam University and is a
practising performance poet. She has worked as a journalist, contributing to a
wide range of publications about disability issues and she researched and wrote
three booklets for the Association of Disabled Professionals and the National
Disability Development Initiative, the ‘Being in…as a Disabled
Person’ series.
Tim Finch
Tim, director of Adept Transcription, has developed a high quality, fast
response inclusive communications business.
Using his background in engineering, he is continually designing new ways
to deliver alternative formats. The most common formats are braille, audio,
large print and electronic media, He has extended the range to include
subtitling, signing, audio description on video.
Tim has also developed a team of transcribers and quality checkers to a
very high standard and is continually growing the products and services of
transcription.
Kim Bray
Kim, transcriber in Adept, with a background in retail and customer
service, has combined her customer skills, IT knowledge and transcription
experience to good effect.
Her role today is the production of alternative formats and the management
of key clients. She currently manages the process from first client contact
through to dispatch of alternative formats.
Kim uses her background in IT to support Adept Transcription to achieve a
high standard of service and delivery.