Breandan Ward

Breandan is a disability strategist, educator and leadership coach with a deeply informed and experienced academic and business background. He is an Adjunct Professor at New York University teaching disability-inclusive organisational strategy to graduate students, and also teaches at TU Dublin an entrepreneurship course for people with disabilities.

Previously he spent over 15 years in investment banking in London and New York, rising to global leadership roles during a period of progressive sight loss due to an inherited retinal disease. Breandan is a recognised global leader within the disability community and works with organisations across sectors including Dialogue in the Dark, Open Inclusion and Evenbreak to make change for disability inclusion that is more pluralist, practical and persuasive.

Breandan is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds an Executive Masters in Public Administration from NYU and an undergraduate degree in Commerce and French from UC Dublin. He is an avid runner and loves music, travel and languages.