Consultant & Speaker 🎤
Diversity and Accessibility Consultant
Combining her educational, professional and personal lived experience, Sara shares her unique insights to effectively navigate, adapt and overcome challenges faced by workplaces and organisations.Â
As an experienced diversity and accessibility consultant, Sara can provide solutions-focused services tailored for your project or organisation.Â
Speaking Topics
Sara has shared her story on several panels and addressed audiences at conferences. She can tailor a talk to your organisation on topics such as…
- Accepting, embracing & celebrating our differences.
- Intersectionality in disability inclusion.
- Diversity, equity, inclusion in every setting including healthcare, media and fashion industries.
- Overcoming adversity.
- No legs, some worries – getting out of our comfort zone.
- Dealing & adapting to change – the importance of being flexible.
- Building authentically diverse & inclusive organisations.
To discuss tailoring a presentation or accessibility consultation session for your event or organisation, get in touch.
Multicultural Awards QLD 2024
Dylan Alcott, Sara Shams on the Shift20 Initiative Panel, Mumbrella 360 Conference, 2024
MC at Women’s Ethnic Network’s IWD Breakfast Event 2024
Panellist at Women’s Network Australia IWD Panel 2023
SBS Insight – Body Positivity Episode
Mind Your Fashion Ambassador Address
YTM Dinner
What people are saying
“As the founder and facilitator of the Your Time Matters business networking community , based In Melbourne, I was introduced to Sara Shams through a mutual connection. I invited her to speak at an event in 2018 on “Teamwork and Collaboration”.
Sara’s entertaining and authentic story resonated with the audience of entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals. We used her story as an analogy for the challenges we face in business and life in general.
More recently, I have invited Sara to be my podcast guest and follow her on social media. It is inspiring to watch her growth and ability to connect as she continues to make an impact, share her perspective, and expand thinking.
So, if you are looking to engage a speaker who understands how to collaborate, embraces her quirks, and has a goal to expand thinking and share lived knowledge and experience, I highly recommend Sara to capture your audiences’ hearts.”
You were brilliant. So much positive feedback around the room and people realising it’s ok to be proud of everything they’ve got … and haven’t got!
Smart, articulate, inspiring and humorous Sara Shams! Thrilled that you were part of this amazing panel.
Sara, we were at the conference on the weekend, and we really loved your session, it was deeply touching and so informative and empowering. I hope it’s a talk you give in lots of different settings, because it was incredibly powerful to hear the discrepancy of how you saw yourself compared to how others see you…easily our favourite session of the conference and thank you for your awareness and education.
Upcoming & past talks
2024
Conference | Date | City | |
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MC at ECCQ’s Women’s Ethnic Network International Women’s Day Breakfast | March 8, 2024 | Brisbane, Queensland | |
CCSA 2024 Rural & Remote Forum – Keynote Speaker | March 13, 2024 | Hunter Valley, New South Wales | |
Mumbrella 360 – Shift 20 Initiative Panellist | May 23, 2024 | Sydney, New South Wales | Details |
International Communication Association – Dignified Representation of Disability and Diversity in the Media | June 21st, 2024 | Sydney, New South Wales | |
Unlocking Voices: Speak My Language & Multicultural Perspectives on Disability | August 28th, 2024 | Griffith University, Logan Campus | |
Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia Conference 2024 | October 16-17, 2024 | Brisbane, Queensland | Details |
Disability Employment Summit | November 18-19, 2024 | Sydney, Australia | Details |
2023
Conference | Date | City | |
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Limbs 4 Life Amp’ed Conference | February 25, 2023 | Melbourne, Victoria | Details |
SBS Insight – Body Positivity Episode | March 2023 | Sydney, New South Wales | Details |
WNA International Women’s Day Panel | May 8, 2023 | Brisbane, Queensland | Details |
Ottobock Elevate 2023 | August 26, 2023 | Sydney, New South Wales | |
ANZ Shift20 Initiative Launch Panel | September 8, 2023 | Melbourne, Victoria | |
Zenitas Healthcare Diversity & Inclusion Session | November 21, 2023 | Online presentation | |
IDPWD Speaker at McCullouch & Robertson Law Firm | November 27, 2023 | Brisbane, Queensland |
2022
Conference | Date | City | |
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JTW World Worthy Day, Panel Member | October 1, 2022 | Gold Coast, Queensland | Details |
2019
Conference | Date | City | |
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Your Time Matters Dinner, Teamwork & Collaboration | July 30, 2019 | Melbourne, Victoria | Details |