The Ability Services

Speaking Engagements and Workshops

Ability Storytellings brings together impactful storytelling and emotionally grounded workshops that explore disability, accessibility, and caregiving. Through heartfelt personal narratives and honest reflection, we invite audiences to connect, to feel, and to see inclusion through a more human lens.

Our sessions foster empathy, deepen understanding, and equip people with insights they can carry into their communities and workplaces. By lifting up lived experiences, Ability Storytellings helps bridge gaps and inspire lasting change.

Bring The Ability Company to your next event.

We offer impactful speaking engagements and emotionally grounded workshops that center on disability, accessibility, and caregiving. Whether you’re looking for a powerful lived‑experience talk or an interactive session that encourages reflection and inclusion, we’re here to support your goals.

Our team is available for both virtual and in-person events.

Let’s connect and create meaningful impact together.

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Our Spotlight Keynote

The Power of Ability — A Story of Courage, Care, and Connection

This powerful keynote invites audiences into a deeply personal and transformative journey of disability, caregiving, and the unshakable bond between two Indigenous sisters. Trish, living boldly with cerebral palsy, and Jen, her sister-turned-caregiver and advocate, share their intertwined stories with honesty, humour, and heart.

Together, they explore:

  • The courage it takes to be seen and heard in a world not built for everyone

  • The invisible labour and emotional complexity of caregiving

  • The founding of The Ability Company as a response to systemic gaps

  • The strength of their relationship and the resilience it fuels

  • The importance of intersectionality, representation, and communication beyond words

Through storytelling, Trish and Jen challenge assumptions, celebrate diverse abilities, and offer a call to action: listen, reflect, and act. This keynote is more than a talk — it’s an invitation to reimagine inclusion through the lens of lived experience and Indigenous identity.

Connect today to book our keynote.

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Our Spotlight Workshop

Workshop: Disability, Accessibility & Human Rights

Disability, Accessibility & Human Rights is an interactive workshop designed to help participants understand what meaningful inclusion looks like and how to put it into practice.

Grounded in lived experience and practical insight, this session explores the everyday barriers faced by people with disabilities, diverse abilities, and caregivers, while building a stronger understanding of accessibility, accommodation, inclusion, and human rights.

Participants will explore how these concepts connect to accessibility responsibilities and objectives under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code, while learning practical ways to create more accessible, respectful, and welcoming workplaces, services, and communities.

Participants will:

  • Understand the differences between inclusion, accessibility, accommodation, and inclusive accessibility

  • Explore disability, barriers, and accessibility through real-world and lived-experience examples

  • Build awareness of the AODA and disability-related human rights responsibilities

  • Reflect on unconscious bias, ableism, and systemic barriers

  • Gain practical strategies for inclusive communication, interaction, and engagement

  • Identify actionable steps they can take to create more inclusive environments

Looking for practical disability and accessibility training for your organization?

Connect with The Ability Company to bring Disability, Accessibility & Human Rights to your team.

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Where We Speak

The Ability Company is proud to share stories, lead workshops, and spark conversations in a wide range of spaces committed to learning, inclusion, and change.

We speak at:

  • Health and corporate conferences

  • Community events and nonprofit gatherings

  • Universities, colleges, schools, and youth groups

  • Webinars and virtual events

  • Indigenous communities and organizations

  • Home care agencies and disability support services

  • Retirement residences and long-term care homes

  • Government departments and public service organizations

  • Chambers of commerce and business associations

Whether in person or online, we tailor each session to meet the needs of your audience — bringing lived experience, practical insight, and a message of courage, care, and connection

Additional Keynote Experiences

Explore our full suite of keynote experiences.

These additional keynotes offer a range of perspectives on disability, identity, caregiving, leadership, and lived experience. Each talk can be tailored to your audience and event needs — reach out to us for more details or recommendations.

    1. Leading with Care: How Caregivers Shape Stronger Leaders

    2. Preparing for Care: What We All Need to Know Before We Become Caregivers

    3. The Weight of What We Carry: A Keynote for Women Who Hold It All

    1. The Circle Effect: Building Inclusive Communities Where Everyone Belongs

    2. The Intersections That Shape Us: Identity, Barriers & Belonging

    1. SPOTLIGHT: The Power of Ability: A story of courage, care and connection

    2. Living Boldly: Redefining Disability, Identity, and Possibility

    3. The Ability to Begin Again

    4. When Life Changes the Plan: Finding Strength in the Curve Balls You Never Asked For

    1. The Power of Storytelling: Turning Lived Experience Into Impact

    2. Counting Every Dollar: The Hidden Cost of Disability and the Courage to Thrive

Additional Workshop Experiences

Explore our full lineup of workshops.

These additional workshops offer practical, emotion-centered learning across inclusion, accessibility, caregiving, and real-life skills. Drawing on lived experience and practical strategies, many of our workshops also help organizations better understand accessibility best practices and accessibility considerations related to Ontario's accessibility framework, including AODA requirements.

Each session can be customized to your audience, goals, and preferred delivery format. Reach out for details or recommendations.

    1. SPOTLIGHT: Disability, Accessibility & Human Rights - Build a stronger understanding of disability, accessibility, accommodation, and inclusion while exploring AODA objectives, human rights responsibilities, barriers, and practical strategies for creating more inclusive environments.

    2. Inclusion as a Business Advantage - Explore how accessibility and inclusive practices can support organizational goals, strengthen customer relationships, enhance workplace culture, and contribute to AODA-related accessibility objectives.

    3. Serving Everyone Well: Inclusive Customer Experience - Learn practical strategies for serving customers with diverse abilities while gaining a stronger understanding of accessibility expectations and AODA-informed customer service practices.

    4. Accessible Communications and Digital Inclusion - Learn how accessible communications, documents, websites, and digital content can support inclusion while helping organizations address AODA Information and Communications accessibility considerations.

    1. Inclusive Events In Action - Discover practical strategies for creating and delivering events that are welcoming, accessible, and emotionally inclusive while exploring AODA-informed accessibility considerations for event planning, communications, accommodations, and guest experience.

    1. Caring Without Burning Out

    2. The Ability to Ask

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  • The Real Life Budget

    1. Everybody Belongs (Kids – Elementary)

    2. The Power of Being You (Kids – High School)

FAQs About Our Storytelling Offerings

  • Our name reflects an Indigenous worldview where speaking and teaching are deeply rooted in storytelling. We don’t just present—we share lived experiences to build understanding, connection, and change. Storytelling is how knowledge is passed, empathy is built, and communities grow.

  • We offer both speaking engagements and interactive workshops. Whether you're hosting a conference, classroom session, team training, or community event, our storytellings bring real voices and lived experience to the forefront.

  • Our storytellings are designed for organizations, educators, healthcare professionals, community leaders, and anyone committed to inclusion. No prior knowledge of disability or accessibility is required.

  • We speak and teach on disability, accessibility, caregiving, inclusive design, and the power of lived experience. Each session is tailored to your audience and goals.

  • Yes! Our workshops include storytelling, discussion, and hands-on activities. Participants leave with practical tools and a deeper understanding of inclusion.

  • Absolutely. Whether it’s a keynote, panel, or workshop, we tailor the format and content to meet your needs and resonate with your audience.

  • Yes—we offer both in-person and virtual formats for storytellings. We’ll work with you to find what fits best.

  • We offer flexible formats: 60-minute talks, half-day workshops, full-day trainings, and everything in between.

  • Not at all. Inclusion matters everywhere. We speak at events of all kinds—corporate, educational, healthcare, and community-based.

  • Yes! Our YouTube channel amplify voices from the disability and caregiving communities, offering real stories that inspire empathy and action.

  • Just reach out through our connect form or email us directly. We’ll help you design a session that fits your needs and makes a lasting impact.