Webinar Date: May 12, 2026 | Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM Eastern Time
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Office Hour Date: May 14, 2026 | Time: 3:00 to 4:00 PM Eastern Time
Office Hour Recording Office Hour Slides
Join DETAC for a webinar highlighting Microsoft’s Supported Employment Program as a proven, replicable model for building partnerships with large employers to advance competitive, integrated employment for people with disabilities. Speakers from the Washington Initiative for Supported Employment (Wise), Microsoft, and Microsoft’s supplier partners will discuss how they’ve aligned funding streams, addressed benefits concerns through planning, and collaborated with vocational rehabilitation and service providers to scale supported employment hiring across Microsoft’s supplier network over more than a decade. The session will feature a supported employee and her manager from the Compass Group at Microsoft’s Redmond campus, who will share firsthand perspectives on how effective supports enable meaningful work and career growth. Participants will leave with strategies they can adapt to their own programs and partnerships.
The accompanying office hour will offer an open forum for participants to ask questions, share reflections, and explore topics in more depth with webinar presenters Susan Harrell (Wise) and Gillian Maguire (CBRE).
Learning Objectives:
- Understand key steps for building and scaling supported employment partnerships with large employers
- Identify the roles of key partners, including employers, funding agencies, service providers, and benefits planners, in sustaining supported employment hiring and retention
- Apply lessons from an established partnership to strengthen or replicate supported employment efforts within participants’ own systems
Presenters:
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| Emma Ogazuma
Sr. Program Lead (Global) Microsoft Accessibility and Inclusivity |
Gillian Maguire
Sr. Program Manager CBRE at Microsoft Supported Employment |
Susan Harrell
Assistant Executive Director Wise |
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| Tara O’Rourke
Café Attendant Microsoft Food Hall 4 – Compass Group at Microsoft |
Mike Shea
General Manager Compass Group at Microsoft |