Fostering a More Inclusive Workplace for People with Disabilities: Providing Opportunities for Employees to Achieve Their Full Potential

As part of our commitment to fostering an inclusive culture and a work environment where everyone can thrive, Travelers partners with several organizations to support individuals of all abilities in the workplace.

Travelers is a member of the Neurodiversity @ Work Employer Roundtable – a collection of cross-industry employers committed to neurodiversity-focused hiring initiatives. These companies comprise a community of employers that work together to create understanding, awareness and supportive systems that provide opportunities for neurodiverse employees to grow and achieve their full potential.

We also partner with local nonprofit organizations, such as Viability and the Wells Fargo Center for Neurodiversity and Inclusive Employment at UConn, to provide awareness training and job placement assistance for individuals with disabilities. These partnerships have allowed Travelers to help people with disabilities find financial security, gain independence, build confidence and, most importantly, feel empowered and valued for the skills and perspectives they bring to work every day. As program participants have noted, the program can be life changing. 

Through these programs, we are able to leverage the unique skills of previously untapped sources of employee talent to help our business succeed, while providing a more inclusive culture where our employees can bring their best selves to work.

Our Disability & Allies Diversity Network, an employee resource group with 2,200+ members, focuses on building disability awareness, appreciation and connectedness at work and in our communities. It engages employees to support our communities through volunteer work for the Special Olympics Connecticut, the Donny Marshall Charity Classic and the Ryan Martin Foundation. In addition, the network connects employees who have family members with autism or multiple sclerosis through its Puzzle Pieces of Autism and Multiple Sclerosis groups.

As a result of our successful efforts, Travelers has become a thought leader with respect to disability inclusion; in recent years, we have shared best practices as presenters at the Northeast Regional Higher Education Neurodiversity Coalition Conference and Cornell University’s Workplace Disability Inclusion: Innovations and Initiatives course. Additionally, we partner with the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Spectrum Support Program and assist as guest lecturers at its annual Career Ready Boot Camp.