Testimonials

As the facilitator for the “Disability and Chronic Health Challenges and the Workplace” workshop, Pat Maher has received wonderful feedback from attendees and organizers regarding the session and his subject matter knowledge and presentation skills. Read the comments.

What are your thoughts on the facilitator and the overall session?

• Excellent  speaker. Clearly communicates. Encourages active dialogue.
• Pat Maher was extremely engaging. I really enjoyed the class and wish it went a little longer. Thank you Pat!
• Effective, very informative discussions. Excellent!
• Nicely done.  Enjoyed the personal experience stories as it made workshop more relevant.
• Very effective at getting information across. Engaging.
• Pat is very knowledgeable in this subject area.
• Great! Pat was an excellent facilitator!
• Clear and knowledgeable. Created comfortable atmosphere.
• Engaging and inclusive discussions. Highly interactive table talks and case studies excellent way to teach subject matter while interacting and learning more about our associates.
• Pat did a great job. Very thoughtful and balanced.
• Pat was excellent! He’s very personable and knowledgeable.
• Very knowledgeable and an effective speaker.
• Great personal and skill sets developed due to his experience. Good program.
• Excellent. Engaging. Could not have done a better job.
• Very good discussion and insights. Wonderful! Great energy. Interesting.
• Very candid, engaging, articulate and motivational. Great facilitator. Good, meaningful course.
• Dynamic, forthright. Kept group’s interest.
• Very dynamic speaker. Very direct and open.
• Pat was a very dynamic speaker. Excellent session.

What was the most impactful learning or confirmation for you during the workshop?

• I liked that respect was the focus and emphasis. It was also important to state that a disability can happen to any of us at any time.
• The power of language can have a great impact on appropriate or inappropriate behavior when engaging individuals with disabilities.
• This workshop was much better than other D&I programs. Here we learned how to act with people with disabilities. In the other workshops – sexual orientation for example- we learned slang terms and stereotypes, but we learned nothing about ways to behave.
• Thought it was very good – better than those for other D&I topics. Very good.
• I had no idea that a lot of the words commonly used around disability might be considered offensive.