Shifting the Paradigm on Disability Employment—with Bryan Gill and Nan Gibson

OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas

For this week’s episode of Off-Kilter, with October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Rebecca sat down with two leaders at JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) who are at the forefront of advancing disability employment within the business and employer community: Bryan Gill, head of JP Morgan Chase’s Office of Disability Inclusion and the firm’s global head of neurodiversity, and Nan Gibson, executive director of JP Morgan Chase’s PolicyCenter. They had a far-ranging conversation about the story behind JPMC’s Office of Disability Inclusion and how it’s working to remove barriers to hiring and successful employment for disabled people at JPMC; why disability employment and inclusion is both the right thing to do and a business strategy; how JPMC’s PolicyCenter is advancing policy and legislative reform to promote disability employment and inclusion across the workforce as a whole; how asset limits hurt JPMC’s disabled employees and why JPMC is engaged in the national push to update SSI’s antiquated asset limits; efforts JPMC has underway to better serve customers with disabilities as a group who’ve largely been overlooked within the financial sector; and lots more.

Links from this episode:

• Learn more about Bryan’s work as JPMC’s head of neurodiversity and the Office of Disability Inclusion here

• Read JPMC’s brief on how SSI’s asset limits hamper economic opportunity and mobility here

• Learn more about the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act here

• Connect with Bryan and Nan on LinkedIn