Bold Change Starts with Bold Voices
Skye Shannon is more than a speaker, trainer, advocate, and consultant. She’s a lived-experience leader who helps organisations, communities, and businesses move beyond box-ticking into real inclusion.
SPEAKING & KEYNOTES
TRAINING & WORKSHOPS
ADVOCACY
BUSINESS CONSULTING (ACCESS CONSULTING)
SPEAKING & KEYNOTES
Speaking That Sparks Change
When Skye Shannon steps onto a stage, she brings more than a story… she brings a movement. Born with Spina Bifida, later becoming an amputee, and living with over 30 years of firsthand experience navigating life with a disability, Skye speaks with an authority that can’t be learned from textbooks. Her presence is raw, unapologetic, and deeply human. She doesn’t just share her journey, she uses it to shine a light on the systems, attitudes, and environments that either empower or exclude people every single day.
Skye’s keynotes go far beyond “inspirational.” They are equal parts storytelling, education, and call-to-action. She challenges audiences to rethink what true accessibility and inclusion look like, whether in business, government, education, or community life. With a background that spans health, business ownership, consulting, and advocacy, Skye connects the dots between lived experience and practical solutions. She leaves every room with one undeniable message: inclusion isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do, and it benefits everyone.
Her audiences walk away not just moved, but motivated, with fresh perspectives, real-world insights, and clear actions they can take to create environments where people of all abilities can thrive. Whether she’s delivering a keynote at a national conference, speaking to local councils, or addressing corporate leadership teams, Skye brings a voice that is impossible to ignore.
Topics include
Building workplaces that actually include
Accessibility as a growth strategy, not a burden
Resilience and leadership forged through lived experience
Why inclusion changes communities and bottom lines
TRAINING & WORKSHOPS
From Awareness to Lasting Change
Too often, training around disability and inclusion stops at awareness, leaving participants with empathy but no idea how to translate it into action. Skye Shannon changes that. Her training is designed to move people beyond theory and into practical strategies they can apply immediately. Drawing on her lived experience and professional expertise, Skye creates safe but challenging spaces where people can ask real questions, explore their assumptions, and walk away with tools that actually make a difference.
Her workshops are interactive, engaging, and tailored to the unique needs of each organisation, whether that’s a local council wanting to make community programs more inclusive, a business striving to create an equitable workplace culture, or a sporting organisation seeking to engage athletes of all abilities. Skye blends powerful personal storytelling with evidence-based frameworks, ensuring that her training resonates on both a human and a professional level.
The result? Participants don’t just leave with new knowledge, they leave with confidence. Confidence to have conversations they may have avoided, to identify and remove barriers in their workplace or community, and to embed inclusivity into their everyday practices. Skye’s training transforms “inclusion” from a buzzword into a lived reality, helping organisations create environments where diversity is valued and everyone can thrive.
Popular Workshops
- Disability awareness & communication skills
- Building inclusive leadership and workplace culture
- Inclusive customer service training
- Engaging people with disability in sport and community
ADVOCACY
Advocacy That Demands Change
For Skye Shannon, advocacy isn’t a side project, it’s who she is. Living with disability from birth and navigating systems that were never designed with her in mind, Skye knows firsthand the cost of inaccessibility. Her advocacy is grounded in lived experience and fueled by a fierce determination to dismantle the barriers, both physical and systemic, that continue to exclude so many. She doesn’t just speak about inclusion; she pushes relentlessly for it in every room she enters.
Skye’s advocacy spans multiple fronts. She represents lived experience in media, panels, and community forums, giving voice to the realities that are often overlooked in decision-making. She partners with councils, schools, and community organisations to influence policy and culture, ensuring that inclusion isn’t just talked about but written into the way things are done. She also supports individuals and families, helping them navigate systems like the NDIS and amplifying their voices when they’re too often drowned out by bureaucracy.
What sets Skye apart is her refusal to settle for surface-level change. She challenges tokenistic gestures and campaigns that stop at awareness, demanding instead systemic reform and practical outcomes. Whether she is calling out the gaps in government policy, working with a business to adopt inclusive practices, or advocating for communities that are rarely heard, Skye’s approach is bold, unapologetic, and deeply effective. Her advocacy doesn’t just shift conversations, it shifts outcomes.
Her advocacy includes
Representing lived experience on panels, boards, and in the media
Partnering with councils and communities to influence policy
Supporting families and individuals to be heard in systems that often silence them
Challenging industries to move beyond compliance into genuine inclusion
BUSINESS CONSULTING (ACCESS CONSULTING)
Building Inclusion Into the Foundations
True inclusion doesn’t happen by accident…it’s designed, planned, and built into every layer of an organisation. As a qualified Access Consultant (holding the nationally recognised Diploma of Access Consulting), Skye Shannon partners with businesses, councils, and community organisations to ensure their environments, policies, and services are not only compliant with legislation but genuinely accessible for all. Her consulting bridges the gap between compliance and culture, blending technical expertise with the lived experience of navigating inaccessible systems for over three decades.
Skye’s consulting services cover a wide range of environments, from commercial buildings, educational facilities, and aged care centers, to tourism hubs, transport, playgrounds, and urban streetscapes. She conducts thorough access audits, reviews architectural plans, and collaborates with developers, architects, and builders to embed accessibility and Universal Design principles from the very beginning. This future-proofs projects, reduces costly retrofits, and ensures that spaces can be used by everyone, regardless of age, gender, or ability.
But Skye’s consulting goes deeper than compliance. While she is across the Disability Discrimination Act, National Construction Code, AS1428 standards, and specialist requirements like SDA and Livable Housing Standards, she also applies Universal Design principles to create environments that go beyond the minimum. This means thinking not just about accessibility today, but about inclusion tomorrow… for older adults, families, tourists, and diverse communities. With Skye’s guidance, organisations gain practical strategies, clear documentation, and actionable steps that make inclusion a lived reality rather than a legal checkbox.
Her consulting services include
- Access audits of buildings, playgrounds, recreation areas & workplaces
- Design reviews with architects, developers, and builders
- Policy and documentation reviews for compliance & alignment
- Universal Design strategies to move beyond minimum standards
- Disability Discrimination Act Action Plans & strategic consulting
- Specialist services: SDA, Home Modifications, Changing Places, Livable Housing Design
Why work with Skye?
Deep expertise in Australian standards and legislation (DDA, NCC, AS1428, SDA, Livable Housing Standards, etc.)
A unique mix of lived experience and technical qualifications
Practical strategies that prevent costly retrofits and create spaces that welcome all
Ready to Create Real Change?
Whether you need a keynote speaker who electrifies the room, a trainer who equips your people, an advocate who pushes systems forward, or a consultant who ensures inclusion is built into your business… Skye delivers.
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Ready to Create Real Change?
Whether you need a keynote speaker who electrifies the room, a trainer who equips your people, an advocate who pushes systems forward, or a consultant who ensures inclusion is built into your business… Skye delivers.
Success Stories
Our Impact
See how bold change creates real impact.
Our clients and partners share the breakthroughs, the barriers broken, and the moments where inclusion stopped being a buzzword and became their lived reality.
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At Diversicare Solutions, we do things differently. We know inclusion isn’t just about ticking boxes, it’s about reshaping systems, shifting perspectives, and creating environments where everyone can thrive. That’s why our work goes beyond traditional consulting. From powerful keynote speaking and interactive training, to unapologetic advocacy and expert access consulting, we bring a fresh, practical, and lived-experience approach to everything we do.
Skye is grounded in decades of experience, both professional and personal, and we’re committed to helping organisations, communities, and businesses move beyond compliance into real change. Whether it’s guiding leaders through inclusive workplace strategies, training teams to turn awareness into action, or providing detailed access audits and universal design advice, our approach is always tailored, practical, and future-focused.
At Diversicare Solutions, we don’t just talk about inclusion, we build it, live it, and help you embed it into the heart of your business or community. With us, you gain a partner who will challenge, guide, and equip you to lead with confidence in creating accessible, equitable, and truly inclusive environments.
