She’s now working sixty-five to seventy-hour weeks in her chosen field, which she says is exhausting but worth it as she knows she’s expanding people’s access to health care. Wool regularly speaks on topics related to disability and workplace equity, recently at the Columbia Business School’s MBA program and Disability: IN’s recent conference in Las Vegas. She also pens insightful op-eds on LinkedIn on topics ranging from lessons business leaders can take on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for disabled people from the Paralympics to how managers can help employees feel safer disclosing their disabilities in the workplace. Regarding employee disclosure, her view is that so many people live with one or more disabilities that any large organization likely employs a good number of disabled people. Therefore, it’s in their best interest to help them to feel comfortable and supported in the office. Finding All of Our Bliss In a study BCG conducted in 2022, which Wool reported on, anywhere from 13 to 30 percent of the 28,000 employed people they surveyed in sixteen
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