Jane Hatton

Jane is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author and TedX speaker, who has worked in diversity and inclusion for over 30 years. She founded the social enterprise Evenbreak in 2011, which aims to reduce the disability employment gap in three ways:

– Training and consultancy empowers organisations to become more inclusive and accessible, and their people to be more competent and confident around disability inclusion
– A Career Hive offers relevant and accessible career support services to disabled people looking for new or better work.
– Inclusive employers and disabled candidates can find each other on the world’s only global specialist job board run by and for disabled people.

Every service is designed and delivered by people with lived experience of disability.

Jane says: “Disabled people form a pool of amazing and largely-untapped talent, who still face a wide range of barriers to entering, thriving and progressing within the workplace. If we can remove those barriers, everyone will benefit – employers and disabled candidates alike.”

Jane’s career has focused on creating that change and working with employers to embrace the benefits that disabled employees can bring. Jane has an MSc in Human Resource Development and is an executive member of the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI). She is also a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Royal Society of Arts.

Jane speaks at conferences globally, and is widely published in the field of disability inclusion, including the books “A Dozen Brilliant Reasons to Employ Disabled People” and “A Dozen Great Ways to Recruit Disabled People”