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Month: November 2025

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Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Ssanyu Birigwa, M.S., Co-Founder, Narrative Bridge

Published November 5, 2025 by Dr. Kirk Adams

In this illuminating episode of Podcasts by Dr. Kirk Adams, Kirk shares how a stressful season leading the American Foundation for the Blind and pursuing his PhD led him to the healing work of guest Ssanyu Birigwa. He recalls powerful half-day sessions in New York that began with reflective writing and moved into energy practices like the hara seven-minute meditation, creating “energy bodies” with the hands, and chakra work. Those tools, which he still uses most mornings, helped him re-center, move from heaviness to lightness, and live with greater intention and body awareness.

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From Fireside Chat to Actionable Intelligence: How Russell Investments’ Disability+ ARG Is Advancing Disability InclusionA collage featuring four images related to Russell Investments and Dr. Kirk Adams. The top left shows the Russell Investments logo in white on a bright blue background. The top right shows Dr. Kirk Adams and Stacey Messer seated on stage in front of a screen displaying a virtual fireplace and the Russell Investments logo; Dr. Adams speaks into a microphone while Stacey holds notes. The bottom left shows a group of six people, including Dr. Kirk Adams and Stacey Messer, standing and smiling in an office space with the fireplace and logo visible in the background. The bottom right features the Dr. Kirk Adams logo with stylized blue and black arcs above text reading 'Dr. Kirk Adams - Leading the Way to Accessible Innovation' on a blue background.

From Fireside Chat to Actionable Intelligence: How Russell Investments’ Disability+ ARG Is Advancing Disability Inclusion

Published November 3, 2025 by Dr. Kirk Adams

Here, Dr. Kirk Adams distills a lively fireside chat and happy hour with Russell Investments’ nine-month-old Disability+ Associate Resource Group into a practical operating model for disability inclusion. Anchored in the social model, and the clarifying distinction between impairment and disability, he translates lived experience into leadership behaviors and introduces seven concrete plays with 30/60/90-day starters, from making disability visible in DEI governance and simplifying accommodations to accessible-by-default tech and manager enablement. The piece also features moderator Stacey Messer’s perspective, noting strong engagement and why the impairment-versus-disability framing resonated.

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