2025 Starkloff Disability Employment Summit.

Building Disability Confidence for Workplace Partners

October 23, 2025 • World Wide Technology Global HQ in St. Louis + online

Empower your organization to lead with disability confidence.

Get the tools, strategies, and mindset to confidently recruit, retain, and support employees with disabilities.

The Starkloff Disability Employment Summit is the premier gathering for allies in the workplace, like DEI professionals, HR leaders, executives, and changemakers, committed to creating inclusive workplaces where everyone can thrive.

Rebecca Cokely delivery 2024 keynote with ASL interpreter on stage.

Rebecca Cokely, Program Officer, U.S. Disability Rights at the Ford Foundation, laughs while answering audience questions during her 2024 keynote address.

Disability confidence is a leadership skill every workplace partner can build.

It’s not about having all of the answers. It’s about equipping managers, colleagues, and teams (disabled and nondisabled) with the awareness and tools to engage confidently around disability so inclusion becomes part of everyday business, not an afterthought.

When organizations build disability confidence, they don’t just “do the right thing.” These organizations strengthen retention, improve team performance, and expand their talent pipeline. It’s a smart business strategy for workplaces that want to thrive.

2025 Keynotes with National Leaders

Dom Kelly

Co-Founder, President & CEO

Daniel Van Sant, J.D., M.S.Ed.

Director of Disability Policy

2025 Starkloff Disability Employment Summit Speaker and Session Details

“One of the most informative and engaging conferences I’ve ever been to.”

Level Up Your Skills + Strategy

The Starkloff Disability Employment Summit is led by experts with lived experience as disabled professionals who understand both the current employer landscape and the real needs of disabled employees.

Through keynotes with national leaders and breakout sessions from current practitioners, you will leave with practical skills you need today and the insights to build your organization’s disability inclusion strategy for the future.

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Starkloff Disability Employment Summits

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Attendees report increase disability confidence

4,700+

Professionals engaged and educated

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Top disability employment event in Midwest

Thank You to Our 2025 Sponsors!

The Starkloff Disability Employment Summit and our programs that build inclusion where we live, learn, work, and play would not be possible without the support of our sponsors.

Champion of Inclusion

Opportunity Builders

Accessibility Partners

Community Partners

Host Partner

Continuing Education Units Available

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Starkloff Disability Institute is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.

“I can take what I learned back to my workplace and share and implement.“