We often hear from our community of disability ERG/Network leaders that, even if their network is mature, ensuring that their reach and impact extends to colleagues in operational roles is a challenge.

High impact disability ERG/Network leaders develop an approach that enables all colleagues with disabilities, regardless of location and work setting, to benefit from being part of a community.

They are committed to ensuring their organisations can learn directly from the experiences of disabled colleagues, regardless of location, shift pattern or access to technology.

For #PositivelyPurple 2024, we published a new resource ‘Out of Office: Extending the reach and impact of disability ERG/Networks to colleagues in operational roles’ (sponsored by Novartis, Motability Operations and Tesco).

This month, we publish a series of supporting case studies from organisations like Tesco, BP, The UK’s National Ambulance Service and Network Rail. These resources will offer practical learnings to support networks to extend their reach and impact beyond colleagues working in corporate or home roles.

This month, we invite you to consider:

• How can you support disabled employees in operational roles to feel part of your ERG/Network community?

• How can you help surface the lived experience of your community of employees with disabilities in operational roles?

• What lessons from ‘Out of Office’ will you share with your executive sponsor?

Peer Leadership Roundtables

One of the most valuable aspects of PurpleSpace membership is the opportunity to build your leadership capacity via quality conversation with other disability ERG/Network leaders.

Each month we convene groups of disability ERG/Network leaders to stimulate discussion on the monthly leadership lesson.

Connect with your peers during these interactive one-hour sessions for disability ERG/Network leaders. These sessions are a great way to share good practice and challenges, swap ideas and build your ERG/Network leadership capacity.

In March, we have two sessions to choose from where we will explore the how you extend the reach and impact of your ERG/Network:

11 March 10:00 BST / 15:30 IST / 20:30 ACDT

26 March 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST

Australia and New Zealand Leadership Roundtable

We also bring together our Australia and New Zealand ERG/Network leadership community together for a session on:

6 March 17:00 AEDT

PurpleSpace and External Useful Resources:

Tap into our Networkology know-how and check out some of the external learning that links to this month’s leadership lesson:

Out of Office: Extending the reach and impact of disability ERG/Networks to colleagues in operational roles

Out of Office: Case Studies