Aug 1, 2018
In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team.
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Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people with disabilities. Jack participates in Extreme Ultra Events, marathons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and was on the Sea To See Team in this year’s 2018 race Across America.
ExcelAbility: Conversation with Peter Denman, UX Designer who happens to have Dyslexia and quadriplegia
Podcast summary
In this episode we speak with user experience designer Peter
Denman. As a young man, Peter suffered a spinal chord injury which
resulted in his quadriplegia. Peter has learned to leverage that
experience, as well as his dyslexia, to work on the most incredible
design projects. Peter assisted in the development of the computer
interface used by the late Stephen Hawking. Join us to hear Peter’s
attitudes, techniques, and practices that enabled him to achieve
incredible success.
Click here for a transcript of this
episode.
Key lessons
Peter will show us that
- never giving up and pressing forward for the opportunity that will come,
- finding creative solutions to overcome challenges, and
- always saying yes, even if you are not sure you can do the thing you’ve been asked to do
have led to his tremendous success.
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