Employee Retention
Retention is the result of belonging. Inclusion keeps people in the room. Equity helps them thrive.
At Disabled by Society, we understand that employee retention is not just an HR metric, it’s a reflection of your culture, your systems and your values. We partner with organisations to understand why Disabled staff leave, and more importantly, what makes them want to stay.
Our work combines strategy with lived experience, data with dignity, and action with accountability.
What We Offer:
Retention Strategy & Diagnostics
Career growth is often where equity breaks down. We support you to build fair, transparent and accessible systems that support Disabled talent to grow, not just survive.
- Progression pathway audits.
- Pay equity reviews.
- Inclusive performance management redesign.
- Coaching and mentoring programme design.
- Visibility and sponsorship strategy.
Manager and Leadership Enablement
Retention starts with management. We equip leaders and line managers with the tools, mindset and confidence to support Disabled employees fairly and effectively.
- Inclusive management training.
- Disability confidence for people leaders.
- Performance support and reviews.
- Supporting adjustments and wellbeing.
- Preventing exit due to unmanaged harm.
Safe & Sustainable Workplaces
We assess and rebuild the culture conditions that influence retention, from workload and burnout to microaggressions and lack of advancement.
- Psychological safety assessments.
- Adjustments framework review and redesign.
- Equitable return-to-work and leave policies.
- Burnout prevention and wellbeing strategy support.
- Trauma-informed approaches to team support and care.
Equitable Career Development
Career growth is often where equity breaks down. We support you to build fair, transparent and accessible systems that support Disabled talent to grow, not just survive.
- Progression pathway audits.
- Pay equity reviews.
- Inclusive performance management redesign.
- Supporting adjustments and wellbeing.
- Coaching and mentoring programme design.
Retention-Focused Policy & Process
We embed equity at the structural level, reviewing and redesigning the processes that affect retention outcomes, from grievances to progression reviews.
- Grievance and complaint process reviews.
- Inclusive disciplinary and performance frameworks.
- Redesigning documentation for clarity and fairness.
- Internal mobility and promotion process audits.
- Staying-in-role adjustments support.
Why Focus on Retention?
Retention is not just about preventing attrition, it’s about building places people can stay, grow and lead. Disabled employees are often over-recruited and under-retained due to inaccessible systems, toxic cultures, and inequitable progression opportunities. Retention is the litmus test for real inclusion.
Improve employee wellbeing, trust and loyalty.
Strengthen your leadership pipeline and internal mobility.
Demonstrate accountability to your inclusion commitments.
Reduce turnover, hiring and training costs.
Our Approach
Our model is people-first and progress-led.
Our work is not about short-term retention gimmicks. It’s about lasting cultural shifts.
Strategically, with HR and executive teams.
Relationally, with ERGs and Disabled employees.
Systemically, addressing not just symptoms, but structures.
Safely, using trauma-informed, consent-led methodologies.
Retention is a mirror. It reflects what people feel, what they face and what you’ve built. Let’s make sure it reflects inclusion, not exclusion.
Why Disabled by Society?
We are not consultants tinkering at the edges, we are strategic partners reimagining systems. As a Disabled-led organisation, we bring:
- Lived expertise, not just professional credentials.
- Deep understanding of where retention fails, and why.
- Experience across sectors, scales and geographies.
- Proven strategies to turn attrition into equity.
We know what it means to be pushed out. We know how to design spaces that pull people in and keep them there.