Empowering Change: Gender Equity and Sea Change

Empowering Change: Gender Equity and Sea Change

As we celebrate Gender Equality Week, we want to reflect on the strides made in Nova Scotia towards gender equity, and some of the projects that Sea Change has engaged in this past year. In 2024, significant progress has been driven by the leadership of women and...
4 Pillars of Accessible Recruitment and Hiring

4 Pillars of Accessible Recruitment and Hiring

Across Canada, employers are grappling with a shortage of skilled workers. Thousands of roles go unfilled, yet a cohort of skilled, capable, and readily available workers are overlooked – people with disabilities.  Building an inclusive and accessible work culture...
Learning and Impact: The ACE Journey so far

Learning and Impact: The ACE Journey so far

In April 2023, Sea Change CoLab launched the Accessibility Confident Employers (ACE) Project, with funding from the Government of Canada’s Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities. ACE aims to build the capacity of Nova Scotian employers to address...
The Power of Rest and Flexibility

The Power of Rest and Flexibility

This summer, the Sea Change team had the privilege of taking five weeks off as part of our organization’s partial summer closure. We shared some of the reasons for this approach in our blog Mental Health and Seasonal Work Cycles. We started back at work last week and...
Reimagining Accessibility: Key Insights

Reimagining Accessibility: Key Insights

Accessibility in the workplace is more than a legal requirement; it’s a pathway to a more inclusive, equitable, and productive environment for everyone. This idea was at the heart of the shared keynote address at the “Crafting Accessibility Confidence”...
Mental Health and Seasonal Work Cycles

Mental Health and Seasonal Work Cycles

At Sea Change, we want to build on the thought leadership of Impact Organizations of Nova Scotia (IONS), in their recent blog A Leader’s Perspective on Reconnecting with Our Creative Selves through Seasonal Work Cycles. We are starting a seasonal experiment at the end...