Our Story
SIC was founded in February 2021 by Alice Hargreaves, alongside early partner Rachael Mole, in response to the barriers disabled people usually face accessing and remaining in the workforce. After experiencing repeated disability-related challenges herself, Alice knew that change was needed and set out to build SIC into the social enterprise it is today.
The company began by offering paid work experience placements, helping individuals with disabilities and neurodiversities build confidence and transition into employment or further education. But it soon became clear that many of the systemic issues lay within businesses themselves, and SIC needed to pivot.
Today, SIC offers a circular solution, operating as the SIC Learning Hub, which provides free support to disabled and neurodivergent professionals, and as SIC Official, which partners with businesses to offer consultancy services and support, ensuring disability inclusion. The funds the company gets from consulting directly support the SIC Learning Hub, sustaining the free support given to the disabled community.
SIC strives to honour the multifaceted disabled experience of our community in everything we do.
Meet the team
The SIC team is made up of talented disabled and neurodivergent professionals who give it their all to support our mission. Read more about them below.
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Alice is a social entrepreneur and founder. For over 4 years, Alice has supported disabled and neurodivergent professionals through mentorship, training, events, and e-learning. Alice also works with businesses on inclusivity best practice - developing workshops, training, toolkits, and policies for a variety of clients. From universities to local authorities to games companies, Alice brings her own lived experience as a disabled and neurodivergent person to her work.
Prior to founding SIC, Alice worked as a marketing and communications professional, researcher, and EDI expert, supporting organisations from multi-national tech companies to universities in their equity, diversity, and inclusion goals.
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Alice Reeves is a business consultant who specialises in branding and digital marketing. They are also the Co-Founder of Joyfully Different, a non-profit business support community and learning hub for neurodivergent business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.
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I am a Public Affairs professional with experience working within charities, recruitment, and a political office - where I was the neurodiversity policy lead. Outside of work, for the past 15 years I have supported young disabled and neurodiverse people, including running an autistic playgroup and working as a carer on residential holidays for children with multiple and complex needs.
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Dan is the founder of Engagement Consultancy, which specialises in Consultancy, Executive Coaching & Facilitation. Dan is a qualified executive coach, neurodiversity coach, and an experienced facilitator, delivering workshops and away days in-person and online. Focusing on topics and themes such as; leadership development, developing a high-performance culture, and building trust and resilience through psychological safety. He also brings a creative, inclusive, and interactive element to his facilitation by using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology.
Prior to running his business, Dan worked in the commercial, charity, and higher education sectors in a variety of leadership roles, working for organisations such as; the University of Birmingham, Oxfam GB, The Royal Bank of Scotland, and Hutchinson 3G UK Ltd.
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Emily is a creative who, like Annie, studied theatre at University. She now runs a series of accessible gaming events, is a BookToker, and a freelance writer. She also works closely with Send It To Alex and is a freelance support worker.
She now works as an Operations Lead, project managing all SIC operations. Managing everything from budgets to events, she also brings her lived experience of neurodivergence.
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Rebecca brings more than 10 years of experience aiding C-suite executives in achieving their best work across various sectors. As a neurodiverse woman, she has pursued additional training in workplace neurodiversity and disability awareness, specialising in supporting business leaders from this community.
Meet our Advisory Board
SIC is steered and supported by a pool of seasoned professionals who bring a variety of living experiences of disability and neurodivergence. They generously volunteer their time, expertise, and experience to promote our mission.
Georgia Bondy (she/they)
Advisory Board Member
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Georgia Bondy is the founder & CEO of disability health startup Well Adapt as well as an activist, performer and artist, creating work about their intersectional experience of the world as a black, queer, disabled feminist.
Dan Orchard (he/him)
Advisory Board Member
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I'm lucky enough to have enjoyed a varied career and worked with some inspiring people across the music and live events industry. My experience covers high level accountability of P&L, strategic growth, commercial management, client engagement management and team management and development. In my free time I'm an amateur runner and guitarist.
Virginia Ossana (she/her)
Advisory Board Member
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irginia is a human rights advocate, who focuses on the intersection of disability and gender. A disabled woman herself, she is the Senior Program Officer, Movement and Capacity Strengthening at Women Enabled International (WEI), where she collaborates in the implementation of WEI’s programmatic strategies: she conducts research, participates in UN advocacy and movement building, and supports WEI in strengthening its bond with the Latin American Region.
Rachel Westerbeek (she/her)
Advisory Board Member
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Following a 17-year career in Higher Education, Rachel works as an independent coach, trainer, and facilitator with a specialism in neurodiversity. Rachel’s ten-year coaching experience and Level 7 qualifications are supported by her lived experience of Autism, ADHD, and Epilepsy.