A plan should not sit beside the organisation. It should work through it.
When inclusion is not properly embedded, it can affect legal obligations, workforce participation, customer access, complaints, procurement, service quality, reputation and organisational trust.
Many organisations already have a disability access and inclusion plan.
The harder challenge is turning that plan into sustained organisational change.
Too often, access and inclusion initiatives sit alongside day-to-day operations rather than being embedded within the organisation’s:
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governance and accountability
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policies and procedures
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workforce practices
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budgets and procurement
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service delivery
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infrastructure and digital systems
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performance measurement and reporting
This can leave organisations with positive commitments but limited clarity about what needs to change, who is responsible or how progress will be delivered and measured.
Disability inclusion is not simply a planning or compliance exercise. It is also a governance risk.
A clear, methodical and evidence-based approach to disability inclusion consulting
30 Foot Drop Consulting helps organisations understand what their policies, systems and evidence actually demonstrate about disability inclusion.
The process brings together four essential questions.
What should good look like?
Your organisation is assessed against a structured whole-of-organisation framework drawing together relevant legislation, standards, guidance and leading practice.
Where are you now?
Policies, procedures, strategies, governance documents and other organisational evidence are reviewed to identify demonstrated strengths, gaps and areas where practice cannot yet be verified.
What change can you realistically absorb?
A separate Capacity for Change Assessment examines the organisation’s current change load, competing priorities, resources, systems and change fatigue to establish a realistic scale and pace for improvement.
What should happen first?
The findings are combined into a practical roadmap that identifies immediate priorities, necessary foundations and longer-term opportunities.
Understand what good looks like. Establish where you are. Determine what is achievable. Build the pathway forward.
Disability inclusion consulting from assessment to action
Depending on your organisation’s needs, the work can include:
Disability inclusion assessment
A structured review of disability inclusion across governance, people, services, information, infrastructure, procurement and community engagement.
Access and inclusion plan development
Support to translate the evidence and roadmap into an access and inclusion plan that reflects the organisation’s actual needs, responsibilities and capacity.
Capacity for change assessment
An assessment of how much change the organisation can realistically absorb and sustain, taking account of existing workloads, competing initiatives, organisational bottlenecks and change fatigue.
Implementation and review support
Ongoing assistance with governance, policy development, progress reviews and keeping the roadmap connected to ordinary organisational planning and reporting.
Prioritised roadmap
A staged pathway establishing what should happen now, what enabling work is required and what should follow over time.
More than another planning template
A standard planning structure can help organise an access and inclusion plan. It cannot determine what your particular organisation needs to change.
Every organisation has different services, systems, people, risks, assets and levels of readiness.
The 30 Foot Drop approach begins before the plan is written.
It examines the organisation itself, establishes what the evidence demonstrates and determines what can realistically be achieved.
The result is not simply another document.
It is a defensible pathway based on:
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your organisation’s operating environment
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your existing policies and systems
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demonstrated organisational evidence
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material inclusion and governance risks
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your actual capacity to implement change
The goal is an access and inclusion plan that can be governed, implemented and sustained.
Why this approach was developed
For years, I was approached by organisations asking whether I could help develop their disability access and inclusion plans.
I declined that work because I could not find a sufficiently rigorous way to answer the question that should come before any plan:
What should good disability inclusion actually look like across an entire organisation?
Relevant expectations were spread across legislation, Australian and international standards, government guidance, human-rights frameworks, research and examples of leading practice.
There was no single, practical benchmark that brought those expectations together and connected them to the realities of organisational change.
Advances in technology eventually made it possible to interrogate and organise that body of material systematically. From that work, I developed a whole-of-organisation Disability Inclusive Framework, followed by a Capacity for Change Assessment Framework and a structured Roadmap Planner.
Together, these tools provide a methodical way to establish what needs to improve, what an organisation can realistically deliver and how the work should be sequenced.
A methodology refined through lived experience and systemic evaluation.
About Ben and 30 Foot Drop
I am the founder of 30 Foot Drop Consulting.
My work brings together lived experience of disability, governance experience and systems thinking.
I understand disability inclusion from the perspective of the people affected by organisational decisions, but I also understand the responsibilities of boards, executives and managers who must govern change, allocate resources and deliver measurable outcomes.
I have served in non-executive director and chair roles across community, employment, disability and sporting organisations and am a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
My focus is practical:
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establish what the evidence shows
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identify where systems are falling short
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make complex issues understandable
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create priorities that organisations can realistically deliver
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help embed inclusion into ordinary governance and operations
Start a Conversation
Your organisation may already have an access and inclusion plan.
The question is whether that plan is connected to the organisation’s real needs, systems and capacity for change.
30 Foot Drop Consulting works remotely with public authorities, local governments, statutory organisations, not-for-profits and other purpose-led organisations across Western Australia and Australia.
Use the contact form below to discuss your current plan, upcoming renewal or broader disability inclusion priorities.
Clear evidence. Practical priorities. Disability inclusion that works.
Ben Aldridge
ben@30footdrop.com.au
Clear evidence. Practical priorities. Disability inclusion that works.