Included by Design with CEO and founder, Sean Crump (CBP 355) | 16 August 2022

This episode follows on from Calgary Business Podcast episode 347 on 28 July 2022, whereby  Sean Crump introduced listeners to his accident that left him a quadriplegic at the age of 19.  In this episode, Sean went into great detail around the origin story of his business, Included by Design. Key companies and relevant links discussed in this episode include: City of Calgary, Advisory Committee on Accessibility.  Sean served on the sub-committee “Access Design Committee” initially as a “Contributor”; eventually he moved to working on a similar committee at the Canadian Federal level | Follow this link to learn more about the City of Calgary work in this area: https://bit.ly/3zXTEZ0 TedTalk. On 4 October  2021, Sean was a guest speaker at the TedX YYC event under the title “You’re Only Temporarily-Able Bodied” | click on this link: https://bit.ly/3zVOA7i Thin Air Labs.  Sean and his team are working with Thin Air Labs to help scale the Included by Design platform.  As subscribers of this podcast will know, James Lochrie of Thin Air Labs was a guest on episode 320 on 25 October 2021 | click on this link: https://bit.ly/3BjFr7b Christopher Reeves Foundation and other global organizations.  While serving on the City of Calgary committee, Sean wanted to avoid “Impostor Syndrome” and took initiative to learn all he could around architecture, architectural design, building codes, guidelines and regulations in other countries. As Sean learned, the only thing “universal” about such standards was that they were universally different.  Here is the link to the Christopher Reeves Foundation: https://www.christopherreeve.org §§§ To learn more about Sean and his work to improve the accessibility for the disabled in all aspects of their lives, click on one or more of the links below: Sean Crump on LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-crump-75729573/ Included By Design Website | https://bit.ly/3JuV6ql LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/included-by-design/ §§§ Handicap | Disability | Mental Health | | Wheelchair | Healthcare | Assisted Living | Technology | Innovation | Accessibility | Calgary | Podcast | Canada | Universal Design | Architecture | Access | Isolation | Strategy and Planning | Physical and Emotional Barriers