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ExcelAbility: Conversation with Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Microsoft’s Chief Accessibility Officer who happens to have deafness

Published: March 9, 2019, 3:17 a.m.

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Podcast summary

In this episode we speak withJenny Lay Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft. Jenny experienced increasing deafness as a child but never let it prevent her from pursuing her dreams.
Join to hear Jenny’s attitudes, techniques, and practices that enabled her to achieve incredible success.
Click here for a transcript of this episode.

Key lessons

Jenny will show us that 

  • Not hesitating to self advocate to get what you need, 
  • not seeing yourself as different
  • Embracing all of life as developing problem solving and innovation skills
  • Identifying your own board of directors to serve as mentors

have led to her tremendous success.

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