David Fazio

Founder/President

Helix Opportunity LLC

United States

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Helix Opportunity specializes in workforce development and inclusive design consulting, training, research, and staffing. We believe that all human beings are unique. Each of us has our own set of strengths and weaknesses. Yet, there are ways in which all people are alike. The essential aspects of the human experience, such as birth, death, love, struggle, and emotion, unite us all. Products, environments, and services can connect all people through their shared human experience by engaging each person's strongest combination of senses and abilities. This is the essence of our approach to what we call Common Sense Design to achieve Harmony at Work. It is the core of who we are and what we do. All of our work, from organizational development to product design, is driven by this vision. Helix Opportunity provides training, consulting, and research, services on how to design inclusive products, environments, and services, that meet all user’s needs, through a shared, and meaningful experience. We also cultivate workforce cultures that invite, attract, and meaningfully engage employees of all different backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and functional abilities. In addition to training, and consulting, Helix Opportunity specializes in providing supported employment of people with disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math, career (STEAM) fields, through our staffing program. We also work with world renowned business accelerator programs to cultivate the next generation of innovative entrepreneurs with disabilities.
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David Fazio is the Founder, and President, of Helix Opportunity LLC, a social enterprise that specializes in the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the workforce, as well as the consumer marketplace, through organizational development and inclusive design consulting, training, and staffing. He is also an Invited Expert to the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Accessibility Initiative, where he develops global digital accessibility standards alongside multiple Working Groups.

Mr. Fazio is a person with cognitive, and mobility, disabilities, having survived a softball-size hemorrhagic stroke, at the age of 13, that left him completely paralyzed on the entire left half of his body, along with severe brain damage.

Through Helix Opportunity David has worked with major global corporations to “Unlock the Power of Human Inclusion” by achieving what he calls “Harmony at Work”, that perfect intersection between accessible and meaningful experience. It is his belief that all human beings are unique, each of us with differing functional, and sensory, strengths and weaknesses. Yet, there are ways in which all people are alike. The essential aspects of the human experience, such as birth, death, love, struggle, and emotion, unite us all.

Products, environments, services, and economies, can connect all people through their shared human experience by engaging each person's strongest combination of senses and abilities. This is the essence of what it means to achieve Harmony at Work. It is the core of who David is and what he does. All of Mr. Fazio’s work, from organizational development to product design, is driven by this vision.

To that end, Mr. Fazio has worked with major global corporations to staff and support qualified STEM candidates with disabilities around the world, design inclusive products, environments and services, and develop inclusive corporate cultures. He has also provided strategic advising, and product innovation mentoring to start-ups and entrepreneurs with disabilities. You can follow David’s work, on LinkedIn, here. and keep up to date with Helix Opportunity, on LinkedIn, here.

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Wednesday, 21 February 2024

11:40 - 12:00

Globalizing Digital Accessibility through Apprenticeship

Format:Live streamTrack:Location: Fireside Chat - First floor
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