Ep.101 - Building Disability-Owned Business Power

29/10/2025 13 min

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Discover how disability-owned businesses are transforming corporate America with inclusion and innovation. 💼 🌍 Join David D’Arcangelo and Cami Turcotte from Disability:IN as they break down supplier diversity and the rise of “DOBEs.”✅ Learn how Disability:IN connects corporations with disability-owned business enterprises (DOBEs).✅ Cami shares how the organization grew from 16 to nearly 1,000 certified DOBEs.✅ Explore how supplier inclusion drives opportunity and equity across industries.✅ Hear how major corporations are embracing disability inclusion in their business models.✅ Understand the vital role of data and research in building the case for disability employment.✅ Discover how hybrid and remote work open new doors for accessibility and independence.✅ See how technology continues to redefine what inclusion looks like in modern workplaces.✅ Get insight into partnerships with companies like Accenture that push real progress.✅ Find out how entrepreneurs with disabilities can join and grow through Disability:IN.Inclusion isn’t charity—it’s smart business. Supplier diversity empowers disability-owned enterprises to lead the future of innovation and equity. 💪Disability:IN https://disabilityin.org/Cami oversees the Supplier Inclusion program, ensuring engagement, and value add to Corporate Partners and Certified DOBEs. She is responsible for developing and leading Disability:IN’s global supply chain and supplier inclusion strategy and programming. Executing all engagement, inclusion, communication, change management, and learning initiatives to deliver positive impact and outcomes for key stakeholders as it relates to supply chain-related programming.Over the course of her time with Disability:IN’s Supplier Inclusion Program, she has worked closely with suppliers to foster and build their success as certified Disability- Owned Business Enterprises. She works to promote the importance of certification and the value that it provides through relationships, business development and further education, as well as support corporate partners in their internal mission around supplier inclusion.Cami attended Florida State University and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Criminology.She has two teenage boys and spends most of her free time at the gym, attending concerts and chasing after her dogs!Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Disability Employment Solutions ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ⓒ 2025 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PodPro Entertainment⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠#SaveAsAbility #Ability #Inclusive #Inclusivity #LaborForce #Disability #DisabilityEmployment #ReasonableAccommodation #Accommodation #DisabilityInclusion #SupplierDiversity #DOBE #InclusiveBusiness #AccessibilityMatters #DisabilityOwned #Entrepreneurship #CorporateResponsibility #DiversityEquityInclusion #RemoteWork #InclusiveWorkforce #DisabilityEmpowerment #SocialImpact #BusinessInnovation #HybridWork #RepresentationMatters #Leadership #DisabilityAwareness #EmploymentEquity #TheNewRadio