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Promoting Managers with Disabilities

The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of UCLA Anderson School of Management Executive Education Programs (EEP), today announced an Alliance Agreement that will provide EEP participants and sponsoring organizations with information, guidance and access to resources to help advance employment opportunities for managers with disabilities. 
 
The Alliance Agreement was signed by UCLA Anderson Dean Judy Olian, Assistant Secretary of Labor for ODEP Neil Romano, and UCLA Anderson Executive Education Assistant Dean Kelly Bean, in a ceremony held on the school's campus. In attendance were several founding organizations of UCLA Anderson's Leadership Institute for Managers with Disabilities, including AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, PepsiCo and the US Business Leadership Network. 
 
Bean stressed the importance of the Alliance Agreement, noting, "Last year, we established the Leadership Institute for Managers with Disabilities to facilitate a greater flow of executives with disabilities into more senior-level leadership positions in corporate America. Now, through our Alliance with ODEP, we can have an even greater positive impact on how organizations recruit, hire, retain, and promote their employees with disabilities talent pool that has too often been undervalued and underutilized." 
 
“UCLA Anderson School of Management's cutting edge Leadership Institute for Managers with Disabilities will change how business schools view managers with disabilities,” said Romano. “Through this Alliance, ODEP and UCLA Anderson will work to move people with disabilities from the cubicle to the corporate suite.” 
 
Through its alliances, ODEP partners with entities to develop best practices, model policies, programs and strategies to forge new channels for employee training, education, career advancement and outreach.