>>Dan Samosh: IDEA is a social innovation laboratory; IDEA stands for Inclusive Design for Employment Access. Our goal, broadly as an organization, is to create stronger and more inclusive labor markets that include persons with disabilities. And a big part of this is developing evidence-informed tools and resources through co-design with partners to help advance employer capacity to be inclusive. And that's across the employment cycle, from recruitment to hiring, onboarding, retention, mentorship, promotion, and also things like organizational exit. So this initiative is spearheaded by teams of researchers, community leaders, global experts, industry leaders, policy makers, and many others. And many of us involved in the IDEA team also identify with disability in one form or another, kind of in keeping with the concept of nothing about us without us. 

>>Emile Tompa: Our mission is to help create stronger and more diverse labor markets that include persons with disabilities, by developing, evaluating, and sharing evidence-informed knowledge-to-practice solutions. Our vision is to see every workplace in Canada have the capacity to recruit, hire onboard, retain, mentor, and promote persons with disabilities across the full range of employment opportunities, and to see all persons with disabilities in Canada who can and want to work be able to find, keep, and flourish in meaningful, suitable and good-quality work. We value inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in all areas of society, particularly in the labor market. We value strong and diverse labor markets where all persons have equal opportunities in careers, jobs, and work. 

>>Rebecca Gewurtz: We have quite a number of partners. From research, from the disability community, from labor organizations, industries, service providers, and government. This is a list of organizations that partnered with us at the outset of our initiative, but we have new organizations joining all the time. It is a space that is really growing and people are excited about making change and we are super excited that people are keen to make change happen, so we are looking to partner with organizations. This can only happen if we all work together.