Caroline Casey
Founder, The Valuable 500
Caroline Casey is an award-winning social entrepreneur and founder of The Valuable 500 – a catalyst for an inclusion revolution that exists to position disability equally on the global business leadership agenda.
Committed to building a global movement on inclusive business for the 1.3 billion people in the world with a disability, over the past two decades she has set up several organisations and initiatives centred on disability business inclusion.
Her latest initiative, The Valuable 500, is a campaign to get 500 businesses to commit to put disability inclusion on their leadership agendas. Launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Summit in 2019, Casey succeeded in bringing disability inclusion onto the main stage at DAVOS for the first time ever with the support of global business leaders.
The Valuable 500 is supported by a host of global leaders including Sir Richard Branson, and Paul Polman, and global brands including Microsoft and Sky.
Casey is also a TED speaker, Ashoka Fellow, Eisenhower Fellow, a past advisor for the Clinton Global Initiative, a One Young World Counsellor and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
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“I have had the sheer joy of working with some of the best human beings over the past 20 years. The amazing teams, partners, collaborators, mentors, believers and even the sceptics – that is what I am most proud of. Without them, I wouldn’t be here. But it is witnessing the extraordinary young leadership and talent with disabilities who have energised and taught me some of the greatest lessons of my working life that excites me most for the future – they, are the powerhouse of equality.”